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Diet Aids and Eating Disorders
Over the counter (OTC) diet aids are used by many people and some of those people abuse them. These diet aids are dangerous because they are contraindicated for patients with hypertension, heart conditions, diabetes, or thyroid disease. Increased blood pressure appears to happen more often with doses greater than 75mg daily, but it can occur with any dose.Other side effects occurring with these doses are:
Poison centers are very familiar with overdosing of diet drugs, because a high percentage of these patients end up in the emergency room. In one particular study one-third of all patients who had overdosed required hospitalization or emergency department treatment and half of these had significant hypertension (high blood pressure) as a result.
Over the counter (OTC) diet aids are used by many people and some of those people abuse them. These diet aids are dangerous because they are contraindicated for patients with hypertension, heart conditions, diabetes, or thyroid disease. Increased blood pressure appears to happen more often with doses greater than 75mg daily, but it can occur with any dose.Other side effects occurring with these doses are:
- Nervousness
- Restlessness
- Insomnia
- Dizziness
- Tinnitus
- Headaches
- Nausea
Poison centers are very familiar with overdosing of diet drugs, because a high percentage of these patients end up in the emergency room. In one particular study one-third of all patients who had overdosed required hospitalization or emergency department treatment and half of these had significant hypertension (high blood pressure) as a result.
