MSNBC: "What was in medicine chests at bin Laden compound?"

This may be a dupe, but I saw a new thread re bin Laden's rumored kidney disease:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42934673

What was in medicine chests at bin Laden compound?
Nearly a dozen drugs, including those to treat stress, stomach ulcers, recovered after raid


By JoNel Aleccia
Health writer

msnbc.com
updated 5/6/2011 5:17:56 PM ET

Either Osama bin Laden or those who lived with him at the Pakistan compound where he was killed apparently suffered from stomach ulcers, high blood pressure and nerve pain — plus the normal ailments that affect a family with children, according to a pharmacist’s analysis of medications reportedly found at the site.

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“The caution is, we don’t know who used what,” said Cynthia Reilly, a pharmacist and director of practice development for the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. “And we know that in the United States, 40 percent of medication use is off label,” meaning it is used to treat conditions for which it has not been approved.

Reilly reviewed a list obtained by NBC News from Pakistani sources of nearly a dozen drugs found in the aftermath of the U.S. killing of the 9/11 terror mastermind on Sunday in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The medications provide some insight into ailments of the people living at the compound, but show no evidence of serious health conditions, such as the kidney failure rumored to afflict bin Laden.

“Quite honestly, there’s nothing here that indicates a long-term, chronic condition,” Reilly said

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"In addition, the medicine cache was said to contain Avena syrup, a botanical product that has at least two uses: as an artificial sweetener often used for a sour stomach and as “natural Viagra” that could be used to increase sexual desire and potency."

Sounds like the perfect middle aged man medication. Soothes your upset stomach, gives you a boner.

trips to the hospital for dialysis.

I say:

Xanax
Clotrimazole (creme)
Albendazole
Ibuprofen
RID
Rid-x

He's dead. Let it go, MSNBC.

:rofl:

The Pakistanis would really have red faces if OBL filled prescriptions at a local pharmacy ...as indicated by the prescription label with OBL's name printed on it.

That would be too funny.

although I can see them being brought in by a courier

Here’s the complete list obtained by NBC News (from Pakistan)
:
1) Tablet
2) Ulcer Capsule
3) Tab/Cap Gabapentine
4) Penza drops
5.) Natrilix
6.) Grucid
7.) Avena syrup
8.) NIFIM, an antibiotic
9.) Syp, Tixylax , its use generally for children for chest problems
10.) Brufen syp
11.) Dettole, an antiseptic

Article explains what they all are (except Tablet (????).

example the Penza drops are for childrens earaches, the Avena syrup a herbal viagra, The brufen syp is ibupropen. Natrilix is for high blood pressure.

to a hospital in order to be kept alive.

In the pictures we saw, Bin Laden did not look at all well as he watched the TV.