Heat: ANSM Warns About These Medicines that Can Aggravate the Effects of Heat
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Increased dehydration, reduced efficacy, skin reactions... Some medicines can aggravate the health risks caused by high heats. What are the medicines concerned? What precautions should be taken? HERE is the update.
With the high heat, the effects of certain medicines can be changed. Drinking water or protecting yourself from the sun remain the first reflexes to adopt in the face of the heat wave. A risk often unknown concerns the medicines. Indeed, with the high heat, their effects can be modified. Some treatments can promote dehydration, disrupting ...
Every year, the high heats put the body to the test. Perspiration, the feeling of thirst, the expansion of the blood vessels: as many mechanisms as the body mobilizes to maintain its temperature around 37 degrees. But for millions of French under medication treatment, it gets complicated. Some daily medicines can interfere with these vital processes and the warm season can then turn to the medical emergency.
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