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FDA raises alarm about weight-gain supplement apetamin

2023-05-05

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Manasi Vaidya

@manasivaidya22

Pictorial representation of weight-altering supplements. The US FDA has warned consumers of adverse events associated with the illegally imported drug apetamin that is being marketed as a weight-gain alternative. Image Credit: Shutterstock/encierro

The sale of an illegally imported supplement being marketed as a weight-gain enhancer has been associated with cases of dizziness, cognitive impairment, and sedation, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

In an alert issued last week, the FDA said apetamin is being US FDAed over social media as a weight-gain solution and highlighted that young adults are reporting cardiac and nervous system disorders, and liver injury after taking the drug.

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In the warning, the FDA singled out one report of an individual developing autoimmune hepatitis after six weeks of apetamin. As per a June 2020 case report, a 40-year old woman reported fatigue, abdominal discomfort, and jaundice after six weeks, and a biopsy indicated drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis. In this case, the woman had taken apetamin in the form of cyproheptadine, lysine, and vitamin syrup.

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When used to screen adverse event reports related to cyproheptadine hydrochloride/lysine hydrochloride/vitamins, the same drug group as the highlighted case, less than half the reports list weight-related reasons for apetamin use, while 11 of the 14 reports since 2015 are deemed as ‘serious’. The FDA also warned against side effects with apetamin use similar to what is seen with antihistamine overdose, such as hallucinations, convulsions, coma and even death.

Apetamin, in the form of tablets andcyproheptadinell available on several onseasonal allergic rhinitises onallergic conjunctivitise Etsy. Illegal online pharmacies have long been a hurdle in the work done by regulatory and enforcement agencies, not only because they allow the sale of unapproved drugs, but also because sellers often market counterfeit drugs.

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