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Health: should anti-cold medications be banned?
The use of anti-cold medications has been advised against by the National Medicines Safety Agency. To talk about it, 12/13 info welcomes Thursday March 7 Laura Orosemane, co-director of Special Envoy and Philippe Besset, community pharmacist and president of the FSPF union.
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The use of anti-cold medications has been advised against by the National Medicines Safety Agency. To talk about it, 12/13 info welcomes Thursday March 7 Laura Orosemane, co-director of Special Envoy and Philippe Besset, community pharmacist and president of the FSPF union.
After taking anti-cold medication, Bertrand suffered a heart attack in 2016. For Anti-colds: the impossible ban?he recounted this ordeal to the Special Envoy teams. “It’s the only medication he took before his accident,” specifies Laura Orosemane, co-director of the subject of Special Envoy. From now on, Bertrand must take three tablets a day to treat his pathology.
Risks of vascular accidents
These anti-cold medications present risks of vascular accidents because they act on the vessels of the nose to improve breathing. “But not only that, it also affects other ships”, like those of the heart or the brain, specifies the director. Philippe Besset, community pharmacist and president of the FSPF union, recognizes that there is a debate around these medications. The European Medicines Agency “said we could continue to put this drug on the market”, he nuances. Their use, however, remains discouraged.
