Headaches, high blood pressure or hay fever – medications help with many illnesses and complaints.
But in addition to the hoped-for effects, they often have undesirable side effects in the body.
Part of taking a medication is weighing the risk of side effects, which seem to be an unavoidable part of the equation.
Below, experts from Germany run through the most important questions regarding side effects, as well as give tips on how to mitigate them:
No effective medicine is free of side effects – is that true?
Yes and no, says Corinna Schaefer, who heads the department dedicated to patient information and evidence-based medicine and guidelines at the German Agency for Quality in Medicine.
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