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Medication?
Why do all prescription medications come with some form of negative side effect? (I.E., do not take when nursing, or if you are pregnant, or talk to your doctor before, or if you have liver disease....)
Why can't everyone take the same thing? And if they can't make one thing for everyone, then why don't they just make medicines that don't have negative side effects? I don't understand any of this too well.
In fact, I saw a commercial where there was a lot of text in the form of animated pictures. It expressly featured all of the negative side effects, including death, yet they are trying to get people to take it because ''the benefits outweight the risks'' even though the risks have been outlined and submitted to the consumer.
Is there no dangerous medication out there?
Heh, heh.... I meant to say "Are there no safe medicationas"...... My bad.....
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Every medication out there has negative side effects, and there is no way to get around it. There is the target of the drug that gives you the effect you want, but there are also other places in the body the drug may work as well, that's where the side effects come from. For example, Benadryl(diphenhydramine) is an allergy medication that has antimuscarinic effects. All this means is that it dries up your runny nose. But as it dries up the runny nose, it also works on the mouth and dries up your saliva. So one of the side effects of Benadryl is dry mouth.
The reason there is no one-size-fits-all medication is that genetically, everyone is different. The places the drug acts in the body is different among people. People are different from the colors of hairs on their heads to the drug target receptors where drugs act. That's just the way it is.
Source(s): Pharmacy school - 5 years ago
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