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The French National Medicines Agency (ANSM) warns of certain over-the-counter medicines that treat colds. These drugs can cause stroke, heart attack, seizures and other cardiovascular or neurological side effects.
The drugs concerned are: Actifed, Humex, Dolirhume, Nurofen, Rhinadvil…
Warning, once again alert the Medicines Agency (ANSM): available without a prescription, they contain pseudoephedrine and can lead to complications such as a heart attack or stroke.
“The results of a pharmacovigilance survey” presented in March “showed the persistence of cases of rare but serious cardiovascular and neurological adverse effects” and “significant misuse”, justifies the health agency.
This investigation noted that 307 “serious” cases were notified between January 2012 and August 2018, including 54 cases of cardiovascular adverse effects (infarction, hypertension, fibrillation, etc.) and 82 cases of central neurological effects (stroke, transient ischemic attacks). …). 5 deaths have been reported.
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