2023-12-15 11:41:24
Cristina García del Campoas president of the Association of People Affected by Drugs (ADAF), has come out against the numerous erroneous information, when not uncertainwhich are being published in numerous media outlets about Nolotil (metamizol).
It all started with the spread of a informative note from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), on December 1, in which they simply refer to another note published in 2018! where They exonerate Nolotil of all harm (even though they knew from us that numerous people were dead or seriously injured):
The first thing I want to tell you is that ADAF NO It is a British association. It is a non-profit association legally registered in Spain and its president, like a large number of its members, are Spanish.
Although, as Nolotil affects many British people, there is a group of people of that nationality in their environment.
Cristina García del Campopresident of ADAF.
Different associations of pharmacists have appeared in the press these days saying that the controls on Nolotil and drugs in Spain are continuous. “This it isn’t trueIn fact, if we have sued to Health is precisely for its inaction in his work of «pharmacovigilance«continues the president of ADAF.
The president of ADAF on Antena 3 News.
And it is said that the problems that Nolotil can cause are minimal, but in ADAF they have been notified, and even without having been investigated by the Medicines Agency, more than 45 deathsand the total number of possible cases of damage from metamizole now exceeds 400.
It seems a tremendous lack of respect that they consider the death or serious consequences that so many people have suffered from this medication, regardless of their nationality.
It is said that the serious harm caused by taking Nolotil They are only produced in the British and this is not true, it also happens with Spanish men and women, and there are even cases of dead fellow citizens of ours whose families now suspect that the drug was decisive in said fatal outcome.
Pharmacists and health officials say that metamizole can only be used under prescriptionbut in Spain it is very easy to acquire it WITHOUT PRESCRIPTIONas Cristina’s family and the British press traveled to Spain to buy without a prescription what Health says is only given with a prescription..
Well, it is suggested that the patients are guilty or responsible for this situation because they take Nolotil on their own or in higher doses and for longer than recommended, and that it is a safe medication as long as it is prescribed by a doctor and is not taken in high doses.
However, “in all the cases that I have received, it was taken, prescribed by a doctor and following his instructions,” says García.
It must also be taken into account that the technical sheet states that the risk of agranulocitosis -potentially fatal– does not depend on the dose and can affect anyone at any time during treatment, even if they have taken it before without problem.
It is impressive that a drug is considered safe when can cause death to anyone and without depending on the dose. It is surprising that knowing all this, it is also prescribed chronically.
The extent of the damage caused by Nolotil in Spain is impossible to know since the cases are barely reported and the Medicines Agency still does not contact ADAF to find out the latest episodes that have arrived. Such is your selflessness.
Garcia del Campo.
It is urgent that something be done to protect the population from the possible harm of Nolotil.
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