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The National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products has banned several Trex brand products, which contained the active substance of viagra but also a molecule not authorized in the country.
They thought they were quietly preparing a little “slimming” herbal tea or doing themselves good by swallowing a food supplement: they were left with chest pain, palpitations, tachycardia, headaches, dizziness or even seizures. epilepsy. After consuming a Trex brand product, regarding 20 people have experienced potentially serious side effects. On April 11, in particular following reports from poison control centres, the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) decided to ban three Trex products in France (Trex Tea, Trex Caps and Trex Plus). And invites all those who have bought these products which present themselves as of “natural” origin not to finish their box.
This is because these products contain a banned substance, sibutramine, originally used to fight obesity (it has anorectic effects) and marketed in France and Europe under the names of Sibutral, Reductil, Reduxade or Zelium . It has been banned in the country since 2010 because of its side effects, particularly serious cardiovascular ones. But that’s not all: these products also contain sildenafil, the active molecule of Viagra. Intended to fight once morest erectile disorders, this little pill can also cause headaches, redness and digestive disorders. Not really what you expect when you c
