Spending hundreds of millions of dong to detoxify metal because of taking male medicine

April 26, 2022 07:30 GMT+7

Accordingly, from 2019, female patient Nguyen Thi H. (currently 27 years old, living in Dak Lak province) discovered that she had ankylosing spondylitis. The patient had visited the Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine at Cho Ray Hospital and was given medication by the doctors.

However, after listening to the advice of a neighbor that “with ankylosing spondylitis, taking male medicine is better than western medicine”, Ms. H. switched to taking male medicine.

After 4 months of using male medicine, not only did her ankylosing spondylitis condition improve, but Ms. H also had prolonged diarrhea, edema, and exhaustion… Progression of the disease was getting worse and worse. When she went to Cho Ray Hospital for screening, the doctors discovered that Ms. H. had a very severe intestinal ulcer. The Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine, Cho Ray Hospital, invited anti-toxic expert – MSc Doan Uyen Vy to consult and examine together to find out the cause.

“After testing the patient, we diagnosed Ms. H. with heavy metal poisoning from herbal medicine. We asked the patient to stop taking the male medicine to cut off the source of the poison. Next is a long course of treatment to deal with the consequences of the ulcer. However, this heavy metal poisoning has left a rather severe sequelae, which is the loss of protein through the intestines. Therefore, the patient was forced to receive albumin and protein infusion every day for 2 years, which was very expensive,” said MSc Doan Uyen Vy.

Ms. H. said that her family had to “bite her teeth” to give her more than 1 million dong of medicine per day for the past 2 years.

Photo of the patient coming to the examination.

“At that time, even though it was very expensive, the drug only helped me maintain eating and sleeping. I can’t do other activities because every time I exercise, I feel tired and dizzy. So, for 2 years, I almost stayed at home and waited until it was time to give the medicine,” recalls Ms. H.

According to MSc Doan Uyen Vy, at present, Cho Ray Hospital has an antidote for heavy metals and after 3 days of infusion of the antidote, patient H. has recovered, is healthy again, no longer lost condition. protein through the intestinal tract, thereby ending the need to transmit albumin and protein every day…

“This is one of the typical cases that are heavily affected by improper drug use. Intoxication from drugs takes place silently and manifests as a medical disease that is not always easy to find the cause. The doctor of the Anti-Poison Clinic collaborated with internists to find the cause and completely solve the disease for patient H.

According to MSc.BS Doan Uyen Vy, in the past 20 years, there has been evidence from the world medical literature that Oriental medicine contains heavy metals and causes toxic diseases if used for a long time. In the books of Oriental medicine, there are drugs such as Hung Hoang, Chu Sa used to treat many skin diseases, infections, malaria, sedatives, anticonvulsants, insomnia, syphilis, children crying at night…

These medicines are derived from rocks, minerals containing arsenic and mercury. Because Oriental medicine is often prepared by hand, or even with modern packaging, the dosage is often uneven in the pills.

Even, there are pills that are prepared containing arsenic and mercury content 10-30 times higher than the dose in the guidebook of Oriental medicine. Therefore, patients who use these medicines for a long time will be at risk of poisoning from toxic heavy metals.

These metals will accumulate gradually, by the time of full and clear symptoms, the patient has had moderate toxicity. When poisoning is too severe, it can turn into subacute and acute poisoning, leading to rapid death.

Phuong Thuy