As a for instance, my father was very sensitive to aspirin...(not allergic) If he took 2 aspirin his tongue would bleed if he rubbed his teeth across it....He called me one day and said the doctor had put him on a new medication, altho the doctor knew he could not take ASA. His tongue was bleeding and he asked me to look up the medication in my PDR. One of the ingredients was aspirin so dad knew what was causing his bleeding....The doctor took him off the medication and gave him another one....The info was listed for the doctor but with older medications they usually don't refer to it. Not the doctors fault, but did tick off my father...Years before he developed a stomach ulcer that was hard to heal.....If you have ever looked up a medication without a background in some form of medicine you would not understand a lot, but when it comes to risks and contraindications you would understand what they were even if you had to look up some word in the dictionary....
The PDR has all the information that the FDA has and must by law be available to doctors....If they printed a lie about the medication, they would be put out of business fast...by the government and lawsuits....
Buying medication from other countries is warned against because of the loose regulations they have....I don't really know the med. your referring to, but I believe what you say....
Well, the company I talked about made $120 million in profits in a little over 12 months. It’s actions were so egregious that a $30,000,000 dollar fine was levied against the company. At a later date, the fine was either severely reduce or waved altogether.
This product passed FDA review. It was released to the public. The bad side effects were never included in reports to the FDA or included in the PDR.
Once again, the PDR is a fine source. I’m not advocating against using it. I am only advising folks to use as many resources as they can.
BTW: Your dad’s physician should have known better. Looks to me like he was quite careless.