A DOCTOR issued a warning through a Facebook user that one of his patients gained 5kg after taking fake vitamins sold at a popular online marketplace that were actually a steroid and an appetite stimulant, TV Channel 7 said this morning (Jan. 3).
A Facebook user who goes by the name “Drama Addict” quoted the doctor as saying that it was lucky the patient came to see him soon after starting taking the fake vitamins as long-term consumption would have suppressed her immune system and caused a blood infection.
The doctor said he was shocked to see that the vitamins she was taking were actually Dexamethasone and Cyproheptadine with the former being a steroid and the latter an appetite stimulant.
A fake pharmacy had taken the pills out of their bottles and put them in plastic bags for sale with this case being very scary, the doctor said.
“This is a lucky case, the patient came for treatment early because if she had taken it a little longer, the effects of the steroids would have caused her face and body to swell, her liver and kidneys to fail, her stomach to rupture, her immune system to be suppressed and she could have got blood infection, which could have led to death,” he said.
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The fake vitamins sold online. Photo: TV Channel 7
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