disgusting drugs
The list of individual drugs that cause kidney damage is so long that it's difficult to narrow it down to 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 Two drugs in this class have been withdrawn from the market due to cardiovascular toxicity: rofecoxib (brand name Vioxx) and valdecoxib (brand name Bextra). These drugs belong to a special class of NSAIDs, developed to be safer for the stomach, but they carry the same risk of kidney damage as other NSAIDs.
4. Heartburn medicines from the proton pump inhibitor class, including omeprazole (brand name Prilosec), lansoprazole (brand name Prevacid), pantoprazole (brand name Protonix), rabeprazole (brand names Rabecid, Aciphex), esomeprazole (brand names Nexium, Esotrex).
