sometimes a viral social media post It can lead to consequences as serious as drug shortages. It’s enough for someone to talk about a side effect lucky so that thousands of people start buying the medicine in question, without thinking that there are patients who need it much more than they do and without taking into account the rest of the side effects. This is what is happening recently with Ozempica necessary drug for many type 2 diabeticswhich is sweeping as a slimmer as a result of some publications in TikTok.
Shortages have been experienced in several countries, although for different reasons. For example, in Spain it is a drug subject to medical prescriptionso it could not be exhausted by your purchase as slimming. Even so, it is true that its stock has suffered a decline in recent months. It has not posed a risk to diabetics, since they had other presentations, but the relevant notices have been launched.
Unfortunately, in other countries it is causing a problem. According to a recent publication by FuturismIn the United States, an appeal has been made to the general public to stop buying this drug as a slimming agent. In addition, the manufacturer of the same, NovoNordiskhas announced the shortage of some of its presentations.
Ozempic should not be confused with insulin, despite being a drug administered to diabetics. Its active principle is semaglutidea compound that activates insulin productionlowering the levels of Blood glucose.
Normally, it is prescribed to patients with type 2 diabetes, in which it gives very good results. The benefit in these people far outweighs the side effects, which can present as nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, or weight loss. And it is precisely the latter that the viral drug has done on TikTok.
The search for a pill that will help us lose weight, without the need for physical exercise or a healthy diet, is the dream of many people. To this day there is none really effective. Also, if it existed, it wouldn’t be a great help, since physical exercise and healthy eating have many benefits beyond weight loss. Even so, those who are obsessed only with that benefit are willing to take any drug. Ozempic entails weightlossbut not tested in non-diabetic patientsmuch less as a slimmer.
This implies that it is not known whether in this case the benefits would also outweigh the risks. But, above all, it implies that those who should take it are diabetics. In places where the drug can be obtained without a prescription, it can be a shortage very inconvenient for those who really need it.
For this reason, we should never take a drug because someone advises us on social networks. There have already been many problems with the mass purchase of antibiotics for acne, recommended as cosmetics by the uneducated. This can really be dangerous. The shortage of a drug for diabetics is not small feat either. Social networks can have many applications. But, for the consumption of drugs, consult your doctor or pharmacist. If they have been saying it in the ads for years, it will be for a reason.