"Cocktail diet pills" may harm the body. Doctors warn: Stopping the drug will cause rebound and may be fatal

A handful of colorful capsule pills that look like the game "Candy Crush" are poured out. They are said to be "weight loss pills." Cai Mingjie, a metabolic endocrinologist, reminds you not to swallow them, and it is best to turn around and run away. Because once this "cocktail weight loss drug" is stopped, the weight will rebound like a spring, and even become fatter than before.

Cai Mingjie posted on the Facebook page "Dr. Cai Mingjie Health. Slimming" to share that he recently received a private message saying, "My friends are following everyone in a LINE group to grab this weight loss drug. Is it the legendary 'cocktail weight loss drug'?" When he clicked on the photo attached to the letter, he couldn't help but sigh. Hey, almost the same.

Cai Mingjie explained that "cocktail diet pills" are not legal weight loss drugs approved by the Ministry of Health and Welfare at all, but a "hodgepodge" of various drugs for treating different diseases forced together. Today, when medicine is so advanced and there are many legal weight loss drugs, there are still a few clinics or pharmacies that privately sell this dangerous prescription.

Cai Mingjie pointed out that a "cocktail diet pill" is a prescription that may contain asthma drugs, antidepressants, anti-epileptic drugs, sedatives and sleeping pills, blood pressure-lowering drugs, and even diabetic sugar-removing drugs and thyroxine. On the surface, it seems to cover everything: suppressing appetite, boosting metabolism, expelling sugar, and even assisting with sleep. But from a medical point of view, this is a joke on life, because the original intention of developing these drugs is not to lose weight at all.

●Ephedrine and asthma drugs: use the stimulation of sympathetic nerves to suppress appetite and increase basal metabolism. The price is soaring blood pressure, racing heartbeat, and severe constriction of blood vessels. Clinically, there have been many cases of severe vasospasm, myocardial infarction, stroke and even sudden death.

●Thyroxine: Deadlifting increases body metabolism, but this is not a healthy fat burning. Instead, it will cause a large amount of muscle loss, accompanied by severe heart palpitations, arrhythmia, and hand tremors.

● Diabetic sugar-removing medicines: Originally designed to allow diabetics to excrete sugar in their urine, there is a lack of evidence for healthy people taking them. They can also easily cause dehydration, hypoglycemia, and genitourinary tract infections.

●Sedatives, sedatives, and antidepressants: often used to suppress palpitations and anxiety caused by stimulants, but are accompanied by drowsiness, lack of energy, and addiction and withdrawal problems after drug withdrawal.

●Multiple drug interactions: With so many drugs mixed in the body, in addition to arrhythmia and confusion, the most frightening thing is that it can cause severe drug allergies, such as "Stephen Johnson Syndrome (SJS)", which causes large areas of necrosis and ulceration of skin and mucous membranes all over the body, with a very high fatality rate.

Cai Mingjie said that taking cocktail diet pills will indeed make you lose weight in the short term, but in return you will suffer from heart palpitations, dizziness, nausea, irritability, severe constipation and insomnia. What is more realistic is that almost all the weight lost in this way is water and muscle. Once the medication is stopped, the weight will rebound like a spring, and even become fatter than before. Real healthy weight loss never requires risking one's life by "mixing medicines and taking advantage."

Cai Mingjie emphasized that mixing various off-label drugs for the public does not help you lose weight healthily, but forces the body to "step on the accelerator and brake hard at the same time," putting the heart, liver, kidneys and nervous system at risk of overall imbalance. Just like haphazardly assembling and modifying a car engine, it may seem to run very fast, but there is always the danger of overturning and disintegrating. Please don’t trade your priceless health for those short-lived and illusory numbers.