Top 10 Worst Drugs That Cause Kidney Damage

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The list of individual drugs that cause kidney damage is so long that it’s difficult to narrow down the top ten. So I’ve chosen to list them by drug type: antibiotics, painkillers, etc.

1. Antibiotics, including ciprofloxacin, methicillin, vancomycin, sulfonamides.

2. Pain relievers, including acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, and others available only by prescription.

3. COX-2 inhibitors, including celecoxib (brand name Celebrex). Two drugs in this class have been withdrawn from the market due to their cardiovascular toxicity: rofecoxib (brand name Vioxx) and valdecoxib (brand name Bextra). These drugs are a special class of NSAIDs that were developed to be safer for the stomach, but carry the same risk of kidney damage as other NSAIDs.

4. Heartburn medications of the proton pump inhibitor class, including omeprazole (brand name Prilosec), lansoprazole (brand name Prevacid), pantoprazole (brand name Protonix), rabeprazole (brand name Rabecid, Aciphex), esomeprazole (brand names Nexium, Esotrex).

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