Taking physiological enhancement pills, the man had peeling all over his body

The patient is a man from Dak Lak province. He said, he has taken kidney tonic to enhance physiology for 3 years. After that, he suffered from liver fermentation, so he continued to buy traditional medicine to treat the disease.

After a while, he suffered from severe itching: itchy patches, then all over his body scabs, peeling skin, darkening, so he went to Cho Ray Hospital for examination and treatment.

Here, he is not an isolated case of being hospitalized because of traditional medicine poisoning.

The man had peeling, darkened skin because of poisoning with traditional medicine. Photo: BVCR

Doan Uyen Vy, a doctor at the Cho Ray Hospital’s Poison Control Clinic, said that the hospital had received many cases of liver disease such as acute liver failure, hepatomegaly, cholestasis, causing jaundice, yellow eyes and skin. lumpy or persistent diarrhea.

There are even patients with multiple organ damage at the same time, such as acute heart failure, myocardial hypoactivity, acute kidney failure, acute hepatitis, lethargy, coma.

Doctor Uyen Vy said that these patients all had a healthy history or no disease related to the above problems. Then, suddenly, the symptoms appeared and gradually worsened. Despite being examined and treated in many places, the cause could not be found.

Excluding common medical diseases, the doctors found that all of the above cases had used traditional medicine for a long time for the purpose of enhancing physiology, improving health, treating joint pain or preventing stroke. ..

According to doctor Doan Uyen Vy, in the past 20 years, there has been evidence of world medical literature that traditional medicine contains heavy metals and causes toxicity if used for a long time.

For example, medicines such as hung Hoang, cinnabar used to treat skin diseases, infections, malaria, sedatives, anticonvulsants… are derived from rocks, minerals containing arsenic and mercury.

Medicines can poison patients if used incorrectly.

“If patients take this drug long-term, the risk of poisoning from toxic heavy metals builds up gradually. When the poisoning is too severe, it can turn into subacute and acute poisoning, leading to quick death,” warned doctor Uyen Vy.

Besides, Cho Ray Hospital also recorded a case of hospitalization after taking Paracetamol 500 mg, 2 tablets/day continuously for 5 months. The patient has a blood clotting disorder, easy bruising in the skin, bleeding gums when brushing teeth.

“This is a side effect of Paracetamol when used continuously every day even at a low dose, not a toxic dose.”

Doctor Vy said that Western medicine or oriental medicine all have poisons used to treat diseases, but they must be in the correct dosage, in a very short time, and must closely monitor the patient’s condition.

Therefore, people only use the drug exactly as prescribed by the doctor, closely monitor their health after taking the drug to avoid unfortunate consequences.

Linh Giao