There are places where medical counterfeiting is rampant, such as Henan, Fujian, Guangdong, Shaanxi and Beijing. You are right. Beijing, our capital of excellence, is also ranked among the First Army Corps. Many non-existent Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and People’s Liberation Army Medical Center are located in corners of Beijing that will never be found.
At this moment, a large number of fake drugs without formal drug batch numbers and legal production organizations are openly appearing in various media, and even some TV and radio [health programs] are promoting these fake drugs.
Why is there such a broad market for fake drugs?
In addition to [lack of supervision] and [successful advertising], the important reason why many patients readily accept fake drugs is that these drugs are often very effective!
I have come into contact with many elderly diabetics in clinical work. They do not hesitate to spend their meager retirement salary to mail order expensive [hypoglycemic drugs]. However, in the face of the doctor’s earnest persuasion, the reply was: “The medicine in the hospital does not work. Only by taking this medicine can the blood sugar drop down”.
Is regular medicine useless?
For diabetic patients, the greatest harm of the disease is various chronic complications caused by long-term hyperglycemia, such as renal failure, blindness, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, neuropathy, etc. Therefore, [diabetic patients need to reduce blood sugar].
This conclusion is correct, but it is not comprehensive. Hypoglycemia is only a means of diabetes treatment, not a goal.
Doctors should consider the overall health status of patients. As the damage of hyperglycemia to the human body is counted in years, while the harm caused by hypoglycemia is counted in minutes and seconds. Therefore, doctors tend to gently reduce blood sugar and try to avoid hypoglycemia, especially for those elderly diabetic patients with weak self-perception and regulation ability.
This can partly explain why the drugs prescribed by doctors work slowly and seem [useless].
Then why is it that online shopping of magic drugs has immediate and miraculous effects?
Liars who sell fake drugs don’t need to take into account your health. The so-called [Hu quack misuses tiger and wolf drugs], they are not even quack doctors, just lower their blood sugar, even if there is severe hypoglycemia.
Is it difficult to reduce blood sugar for most patients? It is not difficult at all, as long as enough [glibenclamide] is added, the miraculous effect of lowering blood sugar can be achieved.
Glibenclamide is a potent insulin secretion promoting drug, its hypoglycemic effect is clear, but the side effects of hypoglycemia are also significant. Although it is still applied clinically at present, there are strict restrictions on daily dosage, and the population that can be taken is also very narrow, which is not suitable for elderly, infirm and patients with liver and kidney insufficiency.
A few years ago, there were two deaths of diabetic patients after taking fake drugs [Tangzhining capsules] in Xinjiang. After investigation, the swindler is to deliberately highlight [curative effect], adding a large amount of glibenclamide in fake drugs, which eventually led to the occurrence of fatal severe hypoglycemia in patients.
Cherish life and stay away from [divine medicine]
It is almost certain that, Glibenclamide or other similar ingredients must be added to any hypoglycemic drugs with clear curative effect. By the same token, cheats will add a large amount of [nifedipine] to [antihypertensive drugs] and a large amount of [prednisone] to [antiasthmatic drugs], which will invariably cause the illusion of [miraculous effect] and bring extremely serious health risks to patients.
However, this will not be mentioned in the advertisement of fake drugs, only pure traditional Chinese medicine, ancestral secret recipe and the latest scientific and technological achievements…
In regular hospitals and clinics, reliable and safe drugs are obtained through the diagnosis and treatment of qualified doctors and the examination of pharmacists. This is a classic mode of medical treatment for diseases. Although adverse reactions of drugs cannot be completely avoided, the known risks are at least minimized.
We are now living in an era of advanced science and technology, and the country we live in is prosperous and strong. However, [fake medicine for magic doctors] is still prevalent. This is really a great irony.
As doctors, we advise the vast number of patients to follow the doctor’s advice to take drugs, call on relevant departments to strengthen supervision, and urge swindlers to rein in from the brink. This is really not something that should happen in our time and around us.