What They Don't Tell You About IBUPROFEN- Affects Healing?

above is Brad, to motivate this physical exam, there are all of these today, my people, the schedule, show physical therapist Brad, physical ninety, we have the most famous physical therapist here and our physical therapist relationship again, we are honored today to have Krista , pharmacist from Garriga, with us. a guys topic about

ibuprofen

today and the good, the bad, the ugly, the dangers, the right. I mean

ibuprofen

. I think it's probably one of the most widely used over-the-counter medications, at least in the United States. I admit that I am the one I use. More like, I mean,

they

sell them big jugs.

Do

they

get a bunch of dollars and pills in there and see how long they can make a mess? Everything they know and actually I think Chris is going to

tell

us the real situation. Issues that we know we face as a society with pills like this potentially, so they have great

healing

properties for pain and anything that can even remotely promote

healing

, but hey,

what

are the things that we need to be aware of? That's the most important thing, so Chris once. again pharmacist, where did you graduate from Butler University that joins 95 Indianapolis Indianapolis Alex a couple of trips to the Final Four a few years ago back of the breadsticks, but then, although this year they just beat number one, Villanova , hey, okay, bonus Butler, so 20 out of 20? years as a pharmacist, a lot of experience and he just has his mind, it's like an encyclopedia, he'll figure it out in a moment.

He's fun to talk to and we get information, so I open up the big picture. What is it? Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory in the NSAID category, so it means non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, it's kind of a mouthful, but for a lot of us, when you talk about the good, the bad and the ugly, I mean, I think it's a go-to choice for many people, it is actually my favorite choice as a pain reliever and I am also sure that it does a great job, not only does it provide relief but also relieves inflammation and up here, as you are physiotherapists, you know that your patients they will do it.

I have pain and the information gives a different picture, so it's a multipurpose type of medication that really helps. I want to ask, it's good. I probably use it wrong, but sometimes when I have an upper respiratory problem. I'll use ibuprofen, it's that ridiculous or good. I think psychologically it's like the layman comes and talks to you if you have a cold. I think you know that's probably something that I don't think there's any control studies that I've done on. I ever read, but if you have a cold you will have very irritating inflammation and I looked at it and if you have inflammation I suspect you could probably loosely translate that yes, it will probably do you some good.

I couldn't talk to anyone. studies I guess I have to investigate. I feel like I feel better, especially if you know that you are a man with upper respiratory problems. We have a fever. Do you feel better? Bob, you take good care of yourself. I'll see that your sugar level is actually one of your best antipyretics, which are things that we see for sure, this one and Tylenol, but we're going to focus on a couple more, but it's good, is there anything in particular that you would say for Is ibuprofen good? group categories, you know, I've used it for everything from surgical recovery, you know, aches and pains, fever, headache, you know, I mean it won't fix your broken heart, but the reality is it really can. wear. for correct or different aches and pains in the vehicle, it is very very useful,

what

can you talk about, what amounts are correct, what yes, so basically when you look at the instructions on the learning bottle, it will suggest that you can take one or two tablets each four to six hours apart, many times, as long as it doesn't bother your stomach and that's one of the most important things with anti-inflammatories, it has interactions with other medications that will

tell

you a little bit, but you will always want to do it. make sure it's safe for you, so always check with your pharmacist and your doctor if it's appropriate and from those steps, if it's safe, take one or two tablets every four to six hours, but you always want to eat before . take this because it can be a little hard on the stomach again we'll talk about oatmeal or it doesn't have to be a full meal and ibuprofen even sometimes people get away with something as simple as a glass of milk.

I prefer a a piece of toast a little bit of peanut butter a little bit of yogurt or just soothe the stomach just to help cushion and protect, so I've heard of people saying they take three or four of these at a time, that pushes the liver there. it becomes a peg prescriptive dose, so from that standpoint, if your doctor is comfortable with it, it's probably more than appropriate to use it, but I would just check this with you to make sure patients who have said that Come and the doctor said that maybe I am there. yes yes I'm a doctor the law I play I take three or four of these every six years but again you want to do that under your doctor's governor they used to be unsafe computers don't cause stomach problems like ulceration and now we have to have cared for a long time.

It is also used at term because there are some complications with blood pressure, so we have to be careful because it is the way the body metabolizes your body. Mort acts on the kidney and can raise blood pressure or a little bit of pressure, so now they can have some pretty serious cardiovascular event. I would like to talk a little more about some of these serious problems that we have in our society with this now that we get our way, but before we continue, I just wanted to mention that some of our viewers are new to this channel, that's right. and if that's the case and you're not aware of subscribe, we have videos like this, we put one out every day and we have over 900 lots and also subscribe to keep up to date with everything that subscribe button is there as we go. breakthrough point Chris, you have a head there, okay, let's move on, okay, so we're talking about that can affect your heart, you said right, how does it work?

Fake and it touches your heart, yeah I remember when we took it, you know it works. so it doesn't just go to the heart, which doesn't transport it, it goes throughout the body and works through the bloodstream, but the things you have to be careful with is what it can do in the kidneys. In fact, they can make it a little hard on the kidneys and metabolize things on vacation and as a result, sometimes you know when you've clogged the kidney and then it becomes harder on the heart, there's a rush of blood because your kidney it's a filter so honey you clog the filter so the filter doesn't hurt you yeah you have another one so yeah it's something you have to be very careful with and again you know if you have kidney conditions , you should talk to your doctor, but in a limited way. dosage or even if it's appropriate for you if you have blood pressure issues and you know that short-term use versus long-term use is going to be safe and appropriate, so again, it's definitely something when we're closely with your doctor or if you have a Quick question, contact your pharmacist at your local pharmacy and they will surely be able to help you with that.

Now I have a friend who keeps them with him all the time and he doesn't seem to take them like three, twice a day, every day. what I was using for him, well, he has a headache, he takes honoré or something else, but if you take it in the four years it's like turning gray-brown and out for this or that, it's that kind of use where it's not , it's not, you don't know ten. pills a day or four or five pills a day, but you know that in a week you can take three, four or five on average, no problem, yes, I mean, you can, yes, I mean, I use ibuprofen almost daily, but I checked it again. with my doctor and he's comfortable with it, but the reality is when you have it, you never know when you have a pain or a headache or a cold or a fever, so it has a variety of different uses, so yeah.

I think it's a great reference medication, I think it's appropriate to use it in the prescribed amount, which is a recommended over-the-counter attempt there, and as far as you see, and from what you see, there's a pharmacist behind the counter, which that you're reading, what kind of The problems that we have in the United States in terms of overuse of this is something that yes, listen, yes, I think overuse, I mean, you know, and a lot of I think I mentioned in the other video we did, we know a lot of runners call it vitamin I, so people take it frequently and it's one of those things that are used long term and the most common thing is that we have gastrointestinal bleeding or ulcerations, so which is certainly something we want to be. very careful with this so this can help cut you're not going to take this if you have gastrointestinal bleeding it could cause it can actually cause them so yeah it actually erodes and you know your stomach network shouldn't be so sad I'm going to go up and go in a little bit of a different direction here, so the argument sometimes is that after you injure a muscle or something, you take this, but they'll say, well, that's the natural healing process, what don't we want? be inflamed, don't we want it to be yours?

So that's true and it's usually one of those things where if you have a sprain or a fracture, the inflammatory cavalcade actually happens even though the cause hurts. a lot of swelling is a good thing to promote healing and there are some orthopedic circles that suggest staying away from anti-inflammatories for at least seven days from now, in fact, that's true and certainly something like that and then you have that comfort. The right healing battle, which is the real battle, so it all comes down to: Well, what do we do? We put ice on elevation and just soak it up or take something to at least dull the pain so we're comfortable.

We can go about our daily lives and improve quality of life as comprehensively as we want to heal if we could just stay away from it. I think it's probably ideal for the first seven days after an acute injury, particularly a rest because it canceled healing. process I'm NOT in depth about your fracture on board, yeah I couldn't say it was really great, that would be a question for your doctor to see if you're comfortable with it and you might say yes after seven to ten days. go ahead, and that's what I generally hear at least when we have people coming in for surgery or if they've had a pretty serious injury.

I'm wondering what you know about a typical weightlifter who is trying to tear down muscle and build it back up again. I wanted that to affect that process or not. I've been on long-term use, well, yeah, I mean, let's say every time you lift weights and it hurts, you take ibuprofen, that

affects

your ability to build muscle, I don't know, I think. If you started from a purely theoretical point of view, yes, it probably does because again that information that the transport of muscle tissue is creating growth and development or that the muscle becomes bigger and stronger, so if you take the anti-inflammatory It probably slows down the process, yes.

You know, I think you're probably the reason I wasn't having the baby. Hey, I hate everything that happens after my robot, but I think there are a lot of average and professional athletes who probably use it regularly because it helps them get through the day to day. day or the next adventure the next exercise I think a lot probably like you said osteoarthritis I want you to guess I mean I guess a lot of people take this oh a lot I think so and it's for sure something they do. It pays its dividends so I think it's appropriate to use it and again with osteoarthritis which is a chronic condition that doesn't get better once the genies are out of the bottle you won't give it back so the reality is what we do.

Well, I can suffer with this or you can try to do something better, a therapy to get some option, but this won't fix it, but again, I think you know that as long as your doctor is comfortable with this, you don't have any preconditions that you know of. prevents you from using this. I think it's appropriate to use it as long as your doctors are comfortable with the length of time you have to use it and it doesn't create new problems. Again, our thanks to Chris for coming today what a great honor and more than you wanted to know about any of the phones I think it's very good thank you very much thank you