Recently, 115 People's Hospital received cases of middle -aged patients using drugs for diabetes. This is not a rare case of poisoning after taking the diabetes treatment unit that has been received. The climax of 3-4 shifts in 1 month.
Male patient (59 years old, District 11, Ho Chi Minh City) has a history of diabetes and hypertension for about 10 years, buying western medicine and unknown drugs, ingredients, content for treatment.
A few days before being hospitalized, the patient's family saw that he vomited a lot and had diarrhea for 2 days, then became lethargic, so they took him to the hospital.
The Department of Emergency receives patients in a state of drowsiness, calling for not awake, struggling, respiratory failure, hypotension. Emergency tests detect patients with very severe blood acid infections, severe kidney damage.
When the consultation was consulted, the patient was taken into the special care chamber, placing the internal tremons and dialysis continuously, trying to reverse the critical condition as soon as possible.
After active dialysis, the patient became alert, blood acidosis returned to normal, and kidney function improved.
Carefully exploiting information from relatives, patients arbitrarily buy and use drugs, without a doctor's prescription. Therefore, relatives do not know the name and origin of those drugs.
The doctor asked the family members to bring all the drugs at home, discovered that there was a bag of non -labeled medicine besides western medicine.
Temple medicine bags are sent to the forensic center. After 24 hours of sending samples, the result, the active ingredient of those tablets is Phenformin - the active ingredient to treat diabetes has been banned in Vietnam and the world since the 1970s.
The patient said that an acquaintance bought him a traditional medicine to cure diabetes "completely" and brought it back from Ben Tre. People's Hospital 115 reported this situation to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health so that the investigating agencies could get involved, trace the source, and avoid circulation in the community and unfortunate deaths.
According to doctors of 115 People's Hospital, diabetes is a disease that can only be treated with western medicine or insulin injection as directed by a doctor, need to be re -examined periodically to adjust the drug suitable for each patient. different.
It is absolutely impossible to use a prescription for all cases. Even traditional medicine also uses western medicine or insulin injection to treat diabetes.
Many people claiming to be famous doctors, physicians… mix diabetes treatment drugs into prescription drugs to sell to users with attractive advertisements. More dangerous is mixing the banned substance phenformin into prescription drugs. Phenformin poisoning causes severe acidosis, severe kidney failure, and rapid death if not detected promptly.
