Shocking Truth Exposed: The Hidden Dangers of Slimming Injections – What You Need to Know
01:11 PM
Monday 04 November 2024
Books – Ahmed Goma:
Recently, amid official warnings against using “diabetic” injections to treat obesity, many complaints about certain slimming injections have raised questions about their harm and the reasons for resorting to them.
Among the victims of this misuse of slimming injections have been several industry stars, the most recent of whom was young artist Hind Abdel Halim, who revealed that he recently suffered a health crisis due to weight loss injections, which caused what he described as “temporary abdominal paralysis“. Suffering from it.
For his part, Dr. Yas Razai, assistant chairman of the Egyptian Medicine Authority, said, “There is a wrong use of injections and drugs whose therapeutic purpose is not designated for weight loss, because they are being used for weight loss on the recommendation of non-experts, and those drugs have a specific therapeutic purpose. for other purposes than.”
Regarding the use of several diabetes drugs to treat obesity, “Razai” emphasized in an exclusive statement to Masrau that “this is not true from a medical point of view, because the drugs available in the market have a therapeutic purpose that is not intended to treat diabetes patients. To use it for other purposes,” Adds: “Until we issue a permit for this other treatment, the patient needs to be aware of this, and the treating physician should know that he is not licensed. This use, especially since clinical trials on these drugs for specific therapeutic uses and Studies are being conducted, and so the side effects may be more harmful.”
The Assistant Chairman of the Medicines Authority pointed to the cooperation of the Free Medical Department of the Ministry of Health in conducting inspection campaigns at private clinics and weight loss and therapeutic nutrition centers to control any places not licensed by the Ministry of Health and to monitor the licensed ones. In addition to strict supervision of medicine authorities on centers and clinics, pharmacies and drug stores, if any violation is discovered, strict legal action will be taken against the violation.
On receiving complaints from patients about the side effects of these drugs, Rajai explained that “there are multiple ways to receive complaints, generally from patients or doctors about side effects of drugs through the website or the authority’s hotline 15301. “
He added: “Regarding complaints about weight loss drugs, it is necessary for the patient to know the source of the drug he is receiving, its name and therapeutic purpose and to buy it from an authorized pharmacy, as they are authorized agencies. To sell the drugs, and he should be given these drugs by private The clinic or center should refuse to accept.” “
Last July, a new study conducted by researchers at Truveta, a health data analytics company, showed more serious adverse outcomes such as intestinal obstruction, stomach paralysis or pancreatitis among people who took diabetes drugs for weight loss.
These drugs mimic the effects of the GLP-1 hormone, which stimulates the body’s production of insulin, which sends signals to the brain to help control appetite.