American management under the control over products and medicines (FDA) found that in the period from 2007 to 2016 776 bioactive food additives produced 146 companies, contained a prescription only medication, some of which are dangerous to consumers.
The results of the study based on the Management data, was opublikowaniu the journal JAMA Network Open.
Some people use such supplements, considering them a kind of safe natural alternative to pharmaceutical drugs. However, this is not so, govoritsa bell (Chuck Bell), Director of the American consumers Union.
Researchers from the California Department of public health found that dietary Supplements erectile dysfunction, for weight loss or muscle building often contain adulterated and unauthorized pharmaceutical ingredients.
Among such ingredients include, for example, sildenafil (viagra and others), fluoxetine (prozac and analogues), sibutramine (a drug to suppress appetite, which is now removed from the market, as it contributes to heart attacks and increases the risk of stroke), phenolphthalein (long since banned Blizzard) and anabolic steroids that have not been approved for human use.
According to Peter Cohen (Pieter Cohen), doctor of medicine at Harvard medical school (Harvard Medical School), manufacturers of supplements can add medicines, prescription only, for the sake of increasing their effectiveness. Consumers who purchase dietary supplements from erectile dysfunction with the addition of viagra may not understand, due to which the result is reached.
It is really a serious problem that can lead to destructive health consequences. Thousands of people each year are treated in emergency departments for adverse effects of nutritional supplements, says bell.
In the past the authors have noted that the use of food additives is associated with adverse effects, including stroke, acute liver injury, renal failure, pulmonary embolism and death. In one study it was found that the use of dietary supplements annually linked to 23,000 cases of emergency care in the United States.
The reception was not prescribed medicines can also cause dangerous interactions with other medications taken. For example, receiving sildenafil alone, with certain other medicines for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, can lower blood pressure to dangerous levels.
In the new study, revealed not only the fact that hundreds supplements contain potentially dangerous drugs, but also that 52% of the cases companies do not withdraw from the market Supplement, recognized as counterfeits.
Dmitry Kolesnik