Masking symptoms

Health Hazards Information - Recommended Personal Protective Equipment Goggles or face shield protective gloves dust mask Symptoms Following Exposure Contact with yes causes mild eye irritation and can cause skin rashes General Treatment for Exposure EYES flush with water Toxicity by Inhalation ( Threshold Limit Value) Data not available Short-Term Exposure Limits Data not available Toxicity by Ingestion Grade 0 LDjq >21.5 g/kg (rat) Late Toxicity Vapor (Gas) Irritant Characteristics Data not available Liquid or Solid Irritant Characteristics Data not available Odor Threshold Data not available. 

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Antiemetic effects Drugs with antiemetic effect can obscure signs of toxicity of other drugs, or mask symptoms of disease (eg, brain tumor, intestinal obstruction, Reye syndrome). They can suppress the cough reflex aspiration is possible. 

These numbers make some experts uneasy, because, like Sydney Walker III (psychiatrist and author of The Hyperactivity Hoax), they believe that Ritalin is a powerful and potentially addictive drug that masks symptoms without treating the disease and whose long-term effects on the brain are completely unknown. 1 Others, on the contrary, consider methylphenidate a mild stimulant that calms children and helps them concentrate. 

It is well known that orthodoxy uses mineral, and frequently poisonous drugs of both mineral and vegetable origin in the treatment of disease, as well as serums and vaccines extracted from the internal organs of diseased animals. Herbal theory holds that treatment by these means succeeds, at best, in masking symptoms, and is suppressive in its action, that is, suppressive of the attempts of nature to rid the body of that poisonous matter (frequently self-generated) which lies at the root of most forms of ill-health. To suppress symptoms is not to touch causes, and it is surely the removal of the causes of disease with which the true healer should be concerned. 

Becanse steroids rednce one s immnnologic defense mechanisms, these drngs lower resistance to many types of infection. In addition, inhibiting the inflammatory response may mask symptoms of disease. Evidence indicates that steroid administration can increase susceptibility to viral, fimgal, and bacterial infections. 

They should not be sold to patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs as they may mask symptoms of developing peptic ulcer. 

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Because adrenocorticoids increase the susceptibility to mask symptoms of infection, paramethasone should not be used (except in life-threatening situations) in patients with viral or bacteria infections not controlled by antiinfective agents. 

Sotalol may require dosage adjustments with insulin or oral antidiabetic agents because it may increase blood glucose. It also may mask symptoms of hypoglycemia. 

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