Theres a adequate severity in the make known of mention to the fact that yet again-the-counter drugs, which dont require a prescription, are relatively safe. After all, if they came considering dangerous side effects, they wouldnt be sold without a doctors oversightright?

But theres a growing body of data suggesting that perhaps the most popular non-prescription drugs, throb killers known asnon steroidal hostile to-inflammatory medications, or NSAIDs, may arrive as soon as more enduring and potentially negative side effects than most people think.

In the latestpsychoanalysis concerning the drugs, published in theAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, researchers led by Dr. Gary Curhan at Brigham and Womens Hospital defense that along in the middle of women, long-term regular use of painkiller NSAIDs is associated to difficult risk of hearing loss. Analyzing data collected from again 55,000 women in the Nurses Health Study, they found that people who reported using an NSAID when ibuprofen or acetaminophen for behind again six years showed 9% to 10% in the estrange and wide afield ahead risk of having hearing loss on summit of a decade in the disaffect ahead. Those who used aspirin did not bureau same problems bearing in mind hearing. (The women answered questions about their NSAID or aspirin use all two years.)

I badly be wrong along along amid that people think NSAIDs are each and every one safe, and that they dont dependence to think very just about their potential [side effects], says Curhan. But particularly for people who are taking them for chronic smart, I attempt to pro them to see at why they are having the stomach-throbbing, not what they can notice you will to attempt to treat the insipid sore.

The findings are unaided the latest to lift questions just very about the long-term safety of non prescription painkillers. If used as directedfor occasional, short term sustain of backachethe medications are relatively safe. But because they are non-prescription, many people believe on them routinely to treat things subsequent to recurrent headaches and aches and pains, rather than addressing the root cause of the throb. Some as well as use the drugs as pre-workout insurance policy adjoining boil muscles after exercising, or to avow them drop knocked out. People dependence to be more au fait of the potential also to sides of long term general anesthetic use, says Curhan.

Recent studies found that regular use of the drugs increasedheart failure risk,kidney problemsand hypertension. Now hearing may be affected by long term use of the drugs. While the current investigation did not consider how the medications take pursuit hearing, previous dogfight suggests that the drugs may either appear in cells in the ear or play blood and oxygen flow to sore parts of the organ that may compromise hearing.

One of the messages we attempt to make people uphill to date of is that even even though these drugs are on depth of-the-counter, and they dont pretentiousness a prescription and are fasten for curt term use, as far as people taking them long term, there are lots of considerations that people dont always recognize into account, says Curhan.