Convulsions, coma after 4 days of drinking slimming coffee, doctors warn of deadly ingredients

Poison Control Center, Bach Mai Hospital, Center has just treated a female patient who entered the emergency room in a coma and convulsion after 4 days of drinking coffee to lose weight.

It is a female patient, 37 years old in Gia Lam, Hanoi. According to the patient, after giving birth to the third child, she gained a lot of weight, affecting her physique. A friend from the same company introduced a very effective weight loss coffee, drinking 1 week can lose 4 kg. She bought 1 box (30 packs) for 550,000 VND, drink 1 pack every morning.

This woman added, this coffee has a sweet taste like milk coffee. When drinking until the 4th day, 15 minutes after drinking, she felt short of breath, cold and thirsty. The body temperature dropped suddenly, had to turn on the fan and put on a cotton blanket to still feel cold.

The patient was brought to the District Hospital by his family members and then transferred to the Poison Control Center of Bach Mai Hospital in a state of shortness of breath, coma and convulsions.

The coffee advertised to lose weight caused a 37-year-old woman to fall into a coma after drinking it for 4 days

TS.BS Nguyen Trung Nguyen – Director of the Anti-Poison Center, Bach Mai Hospital, said that the CT scan results also showed brain damage. Fortunately, after being admitted to the hospital, the patient received emergency resuscitation and timely respiratory support, so his condition gradually improved.

After 10 days of treatment, up to now, the patient’s health has gradually recovered. However, whether sequelae are left or not when the brain is damaged, it needs more time to be examined to be able to determine.

Notably, the assessment results of the Institute of Forensic Medicine showed that the weight loss coffee the patient used contained sibutramine, a poison that has been banned by the Ministry of Health from being used in modern medicines and functional foods because harmful effects on the health of users.

According to Dr. Nguyen, sibutramine has many toxicity and side effects, the risk of cardiovascular complications, especially stroke and myocardial infarction, so both the US and Europe have stopped using since 2010.

Doctors recommend that losing weight for beauty is a legitimate need of everyone, especially for women. However, women should not believe in advertisements with weight loss effects such as “panacea”, look to floating products, unknown origin and quality on the market to receive consequences for health. , even life-threatening. A safe and effective way to lose weight is a scientific diet and reasonable exercise.

In addition, Dr. Dr. Truong Hong Son, Director of the Vietnam Institute of Applied Medicine, Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam General Association of Medicine emphasized that there is no reason why we should lose a lot of weight quickly and intensively while our We need health.

If it drops too much in a short time, it will cause shock to the body. According to the recommendations of medical organizations, the safe threshold is to lose 5% of weight in a month.

“Weight loss is a process that requires patience. For about 2 months, the patient is always faced with each meal. Many people are eager to lose weight and think it is a short-term story, but about 10 days, standing before meals, then sometimes going with friends, people will stick their tongues.

This is not a story about physique but a story about health and longevity. We know that if you exceed that weight, the risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke comes suddenly. Therefore, it is not that we must exercise to lose weight, but must maintain a healthy long-term healthy diet”, Dr. Dr. Truong Hong Son added.

N. Huyen