Periactin: a new dangerous diversion

2023-11-23 12:05:26

Home > News > Periactin: a new dangerous diversion written on November 23, 2023 at 1:05 p.m. Article published in newspaper nº 118

It’s not just medications type Ozempic which are praised on social networks. There is also the Periactine and its molecule, cyproheptadine. While Ozempic is praised for its appetite suppressant properties, Periactin is praised for weight gain. And more for supposedly taking butts, in order to look like Kim Kardashian and have an hourglass body. Cyproheptadine is an H1 antihistamine that can cause undesirable effects such as drowsiness and atropinic effects (in other words, reducing various natural secretions: saliva, sweat, bronchial mucus or tears) exposing here to acute attacks of glaucoma, constipation, tachycardia and urinary retention, liver damage, dizziness, hallucinations, anxietyetc.

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The magazine Prescrire reports the case of a 14-year-old girl who consulted an emergency service in Nancy for ” dizziness, flushing, asthenia, abdominal pain and tachycardia at 130 beats per minute “These symptoms began four days ago, as soon as the teenager started taking cyproheptadine, at a dose of one tablet 3 times a day following seeing videos on TikTok to enlarge buttocks. Over the counter and less than 10 eurosit is easy to obtain this outdated molecule for which, in 2023, ” there is no evidence regarding its long-term use “, according to Prescrire, which adds that ” the side effects to which cyproheptadine is exposed are disproportionate to the low benefit of this substance “, and advises once morest it. At the very least, one would be tempted to say.

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