2024-02-21 17:15:45
It is something that has been known for a long time, and now we see how the prestigious magazine Prescribe It includes it in its annual report, that of 2024, of the drugs that should be withdrawn from the market, your blacklist. What happens with the finasteride?
There are medications to combat baldness that cause serious sexual and neurological problems, in addition to depression and risk of suicide, and one of them is finasteride. The “hair growers” in pills they are putting into public health risk.
Why is this active ingredient among those treatments to avoid due to its unfavorable benefit/risk ratio, according to the French magazine specialized in pharmacovigilance? Well, because among its risks are:
“Sexual problems, depression, suicidal ideation, breast cancer.”
Prescribe.
This post explains that finasteride is “sometimes an option in benign prostate hyperplasiawhen alpha adrenergic blockers are not sufficient to relieve urinary symptoms, are inappropriate or cause unacceptable adverse effects«.
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But in exchange, the man who has an enlarged prostatefor example, and takes this drug you can experience all these ailments, which are neither few nor banal.
The best-known brand of the treatment is Propecia and its generics are used for the treatment of Hair loss male (also known as androgenetic alopecia) in men aged 18 to 41 years.
You do not have to use it for a long time but if your hair falls out you may be prescribed it for life, in fact in the leaflet says to take one pill a day. And, as almost always happens with drug damageprolonged use is where problems and damage come.
I said before that all this had been known for a long time, already in 2016 we published the post titled Propecia, the “hair growth” pills that can cost you more than a comb.
But it is that before, since 2011 at least, it was already warned that the prostate cancer can also be caused by prostate cancer drugs… like finasteride.
And the medicines that contain as an active ingredient finasteride y dutasteride and are marketed under the brand name Proscar, Propecia, Avodart y Jalyn increase the risk of prostate cancer, according to US Drug Agency.
If you have any problems with this drug, consult your doctor. Association of People Affected by Drugs (ADAF)
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