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1. Do you know what medications have a side effect of neuropathy (nerve damage)?
2. Will It Interfere with The Other Things I'm Taking?
3. What are Nutritional Deficiencies and What Do They Do to Your Health?
4. The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements 

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Do you know what medications have a side effect of neuropathy (nerve damage)?

We have made a list. You can read about it   Drugs with Neuropathy Side Effects

What drugs list neuropathy as a side effect?

You can side check this with www.drugs.com  or www.rxlist.com which has the literature information of the drugs in a database. You may see the side effect listed as neuropathy, but sometimes it uses different terms, such as numbness and pain, parasthesia, etc. etc. etc. 

If you currently have neuropathy and are taking any of these drugs. See your doctor and see if he/she can prescribe something that is not contributing to your problem.

For more information on neuropathy, go to  Neuropathy 

And, of course, you can check with your pharmacist who has a database with the information. 

Will It Interfere with The Other Things I'm Taking?

One of the most frequently asked questions about supplements is whether or not it will interfere with the medications that a person is currently taking.

Supplements usually mean that it will supplement your diet so that you have all of the body’s requirements to survive. There are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acids, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. The body needs all of them. If you are not getting them from the food you eat, you can supplement with these nutritional supplements.

This definition of supplement is really food and thus will usually not interfere with any drug. 

However, supplements come in all forms and all combinations.

You can find vitamins and herbs together. This may be because besides treating a deficiency there are things the body will need to get well. This is usually considered a medical food.

Herbs unlike vitamins are not essential to the body and are used for their natural healing ability. It is something that will force your body to do something it normally wouldn’t do, much like a drug does.

Of course, herbs are made in nature and not in a laboratory so not harmful. But, can you take it with your medications?

There is an easy answer to this, and can be done no matter what supplement you want to take.

If you are unsure, see your pharmacist. Pharmacists have a database that is designed to do just that – check to see if different drugs can be taken together safely. This is necessitated by the fact that people can have more than one doctor, and more than one doctor prescribing them drugs. 

This database can also be used to check to see if any type of supplement, herb or drug can be taken together.  

It can bring peace of mind.

What are Nutritional Deficiencies and What Do They Do to Your Health?

A deficiency is basically a nutrient that your body does not have enough of to function properly.

What if you forgot to put enough oil in you car? Despite the fact that it was getting the air, gas, functioning spark plugs and good combustion, the car wouldn’t work properly. Sure the piston would go up and down and the car would move forward – just like normal. But soon the engine might run a little hot. Down in the engine different things might start happening. The rings around the piston that stopped oil from getting up into the combustion area might be giving way. The normal straight camshaft might start to bend a little. The engine just won’t work right. Perhaps the car will need a small repair, or maybe a major overhaul – or ignored the engine will just seize up and “die”

It’s the same with your body – except that you can’t just buy another engine and repairs made to a damaged body might not put things back together again. Let’s look at some of the many varied things that can happen when you don’t put the needed nutrients into the body, and wind up with a deficiency. 

Gingivitis is created when plague (sticky deposits of bacteria, mucus and food particles) adheres to the teeth, hardens and irritates the gum. The accumulation causes the gums to become infected and swollen. As the gums swell, pockets form between the gums and the teeth and act as a trap for more plague. Irritated gums bleed and eventually start to recede. 

This irritation can be fought by introducing Vitamin C, which fights the formation of plaque. Now gingivitis, untreated, can progress to periodontal disease, which means loose teeth and false teeth. Seems like it would be easier just to get enough C. C would have fought the formation of plaque to begin with. 

Does that sound too easy? Remember in the fast food lifestyle that we live in, we need a Vitamin C to fight the many problems in that lifestyle – processed foods, polluted air, etc. You need enough so that your gums get enough. 

Vitamin B12 comes from meat, eggs, fish and milk, but not everyone eats these and they do not eat enough to fight the depletion that happens from day to day living. Alcohol, coffee, tobacco to name a few can also deplete the body of vitamin B12. 

What happens when you have a deficiency of Vitamin B12? It can bring about nerve degeneration. Vitamin B12 supports the sheathing that protects nerve cells. Damage to the nerve sheathing can produce numbness, tingling and the pain. It’s called neuropathy. Neuropathy can be a side effect of cancer treatments, certain medications, toxins, diabetes, and many other things. And the funny part about it is that the reasons one can get neuropathy could have been prevented in the first place with the proper nutrients. 

We have all heard the problems from someone smoking, but even if you smoke, you can still take vitamins to compensate for the depletion of vitamins that it causes. 

There are a lot of problems that deficiency causes. One of the reasons for the website is to help you understand those deficiencies and allow you to fix nutritional deficiencies and build good health. 

Remember when you build good health, disease tends to fade away.
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The Difference Between Drugs and Nutrition Supplements 

For what every ails you, , a person has only a few choices about what to do about it..

The Drug Approach

What a drug does is it forces the body to do something that it normally wouldn't do.. When it comes to a medication, the body reacts in certain ways to this medication and it is done in order to achieve a desirable effect. For instance, in order to balance itself and handle the effects of a drug, the body has to lower its blood pressure. If this is what you want to happen because its a blood pressure medication, it's a good thing. However, there are also various other ways the body can react to the drug and sometimes this is not such a good thing - this is called a "side effect". It is the reason someone can wind up on 4 blood pressure medications. Each drug is given in an attempt to balance another drug so as not to create the various side effects of the other drugs. It is a balancing act. 

The Natural Approach

What a nutritional supplement does is give the body the actual tools it needs to fix the body.

 
In the case of neuropathy, it is the nerve cell that is damaged. The body needs certain tools (nutritional factors) to do it's repair.  Drugs don't repair anything; they treat the symptom, not the cause of the problem. 

As with our example of blood pressure, if they don't know what is causing the high blood pressure, the drug just lowers it artificially.  The supplement doesn't force the blood pressure low, but addresses the cause of high blood pressure and brings your body into better balance, and the blood pressure goes to normal.  
The cause of nerve damage is known - it can be the result of too much sugar in the blood, the chemicals used in cancer treatments, injury to the nerve, etc. - but one thing is known, the damage is done to the cell and this causes the pain.  
You can cover this up with pain killers, or with other drugs that are manufactured to handle this, but the drugs aren't repairing anything. They are trying to forces the body to not give you pain, not give you numbness, etc., And sometimes more damage to the nerve cell might happen due to the drug or other drugs you are taking,

The Nutritional Approach

Nutritional supplements are actually vitamins and minerals that the body needs to repair the cells of the body and build health.  The body needs certain nutrients to function properly. 
 
In the case of neuropathy, there are specific ingredients needed by the body to build healthy nerve cells.  These are the supplements you want to take.

Another difference is that if you are taking a drug and just covering up symptoms, you have to continue to take the drug to get relief and sometimes even have to increase the drug to get the same relief.

If you take natural supplements, the body can fix the problem, and as long as you don't do anything to damage the cells again, or create deficiencies by eating properly, there is an end to taking the supplements.

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