Using male drugs of unknown origin with banned substances, critically ill diabetic patients

The patient who was poisoned after taking male drugs of unknown origin was a female (75 years old), hospitalized in a state of fatigue, severe weight loss.

Money lost because of using male drugs of unknown origin

The patient’s family said that the patient had diabetes for 15 years and used to regularly take medication according to the doctor’s prescription. However, recently, patients have given up treatment, do not maintain prescriptions according to the doctor’s instructions, but use male drugs of unknown origin bought online.

Because of believing in the advertisements that male medicine can cure diabetes completely and save liver and kidney damage, the patient has spent a large amount of money to buy medicine.

After 1 month of using the male medicine of unknown origin mentioned above, the patient showed signs of fatigue and weight loss, so his family took him to the emergency room at the hospital.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hoang Bui Hai – Head of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (Hanoi Medical University Hospital) said that during the examination, the doctor suspected acidemia and immediately performed blood gas at the emergency room. found pH 6.791 and HCO3 only 3.4. This is a rare index in the normal human body, and the patient was immediately prescribed emergency dialysis.

Diagnosis of suspected poisoning phenformin is an old antidiabetic drug that was banned 30 years ago. Indeed, the test results of the male pill the patient used contained phenformin. After 2 days of dialysis, intensive care and treatment, the patient’s acidosis was cleared and gradually recovered.

Male drugs of unknown origin contain dangerous banned substances

According to doctors, phenformin was discovered in 1957 used to treat diabetes. However, during follow-up, it was found that although phenformin helps control blood sugar, it causes an extremely serious side effect, which can be life-threatening, leading to death, which is lactic acidosis. .

Therefore, in the 1970s, phenformin was gradually restricted from use, and was banned from circulation in the US and other countries in November 1978. However, in Vietnam as well as a few other Asian countries, phenformin is still secretly produced and circulated as a dual drug for diabetes treatment.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Bui Hai recommends: “Patients should absolutely not listen to the advice of unprofessional people, or believe advertisements on the internet, use drugs of unknown origin, or leave things unfinished. treatment, making complications more severe and possibly life-threatening lactic acidosis.”

According to Associate Professor Hai, people with diabetes need to focus on proper nutrition and physical exercise in combination with medication and periodic monitoring at medical facilities.

This will help people with diabetes control their blood sugar well, prevent complications, improve their quality of life, and help them live a happy and optimistic life with diabetes.