With drugs to lose weight attention to unwanted pregnancies

On the liar it is written, but in the United Kingdom the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has thought it was appropriate Publish a specific notice in this regard: The new weight loss drugs that act on the receptors for GLP-1 can reduce the effectiveness of oral contraceptives. This is demonstrated by the 40 pregnancies recorded overseas as a « collateral effect » of therapy.

Contraception and pregnancy

The notice was issued because, as explained to the microphones of the BBC Alison Cave of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, «We think there is not enough awareness of the importance of use effective contraception during the therapy with GLP-1 agonists». In the illustrative leaflets the possible side effect is reported, but the English control body considered it appropriate to point it out, advising patients who do not want to have children the use of non -oral or barrier contraceptive methods. Also, as Cave explained, « There are data from animal studies that indicate possible side effects on fetuses. We do not know if the same happens in man, but pending further data we think it is necessary, as a precaution, to recommend that you recommend Do not use these drugs if you are trying to have a child, if you are pregnant or if you are breastfeeding».

Correct use

The English expert has once been recalled how important it is to use these drugs, which are very effective and have precise indications of use, upon prescription and without buying them independently. The side effects exist and it is important to know and know how to manage them, inquiring with the doctor about italso to be able to continue the cure in the mile possible: A study published on Jama Network Open He stressed that 64.8 percent of those who do not have type 2 diabetes and 46.5 percent of people with type 2 diabetes stop taking these drugs within a year, precisely because of the side effects, mainly for gastrointestinal inconveniences, such as nausea and vomiting. Also for this, as was recently underlined in the magazine Natureare taking hold surgical and endoscopic methods for weight reductionproposed to those who, for one reason or another, find themselves suspending drugs.