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Fluoroquinolones, too automatic antibiotics
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Six million unjustified prescriptions in four years.
History is an eternal restart. While last February opened the appeal trial of thecase of the Mediatorit’s the turn of fluoroquinolonesa family of potent antibiotics, including drugs like Oflocet, Ciflox and Tavanic, to be in the hot seat. A dozen patients have announced their intention to file a complaint, in particular with the public health pole of the Paris prosecutor’s office, once morest X and once morest doctors for “involuntary injuries” and “aggravated deception”. It must be said that, despite strict restrictions, imposed in 2019 by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on the delivery of fluoroquinolones, a certain number of doctors have persisted in prescribing them for trivial cystitis. Six million unjustified prescriptions in four yearss’insurge Philippe Covillesuffering from severe neuropathies and founder of an association of patients*.
These prescriptions are all the less justified in that they expose patients to potential serious side effects such as tendon ruptures, muscle damage but also aneurysms, aortic dissections or neuropsychiatric disorders.
Side effects, some irreversible, which according to the testimony of a plaintiff collected by Le Parisien/Today in France are denied by the medical profession. According to her, neither her neurologist nor her rheumatologist are “aware of the side effects, it’s crazy! For them, the only risk is tendinitis ».
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