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2. Are laxatives for weight loss safe? - AOL

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   Laxatives are designed for constipation, not weight loss, and can lead to serious side effects and dangerous complications when used incorrectly. When you lose weight on laxatives, it's from water ...

3. The Health Risks and Benefits of Weight-Loss Drugs - AOL

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   Read More: Patients Are Suing Over Alleged Side Effects of Weight-Loss Drugs. The group found that people taking the GLP-1 medications had a lower risk of a number of health conditions, including ...

4. The Terrible—and Amazing—Side Effects of Weight Loss Drugs

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   GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss involve all kinds of side effects—good and not-so-good—that may or may not strike the average user. (Reminder that there are many of these meds now. GLP-1s ...

5. Laxative - Wikipedia

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   Although some patients with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa abuse laxatives in an attempt to lose weight, laxatives act to speed up the transit of feces through the large intestine, which occurs after the absorption of nutrients in the small intestine is already complete. Thus, studies of laxative abuse have found ...

6. Loratadine - Wikipedia

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   Loratadine, sold under the brand name Claritin among others, is a medication used to treat allergies. [5] This includes allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and hives . [ 5 ] It is also available in drug combinations such as loratadine/pseudoephedrine , in which it is combined with pseudoephedrine , a nasal decongestant . [ 5 ]

7. Anti-obesity medication - Wikipedia

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   The most common side effects of these drugs that led to withdrawals were mental disturbances, cardiac side effects, and drug abuse or drug dependence. Deaths were associated with seven products. [84] Ephedra was removed from the US market in 2004 over concerns that it raises blood pressure and could lead to strokes and death. [85]