The fashion of taking these medicines to lose weight puts in trouble to the diabetics, denounce shortages.
The situation is repeated since the end of 2023, and it is increasingly serious, for numerous patients with diabetes in Albacete and all Castilla-La Mancha who have to prick insulin.There is more and more shortages in pharmacies, which seek solutions to a problem that seems to have a difficult solution.
And the cause, as associations such as diabetics in the region alert could be due to the rise of this medicine with use against overweight.As your demand increases for aesthetic purposes, the amounts available to diabetes patients are diminished and this is an already latent problem in many Albacete pharmacies.Also from the province.In regions such as Manchuela there are several readers who have expressed to Masquealba their concern about the shortage they are suffering from a medication they need daily.
The Federation of Diabetes Associations of Castilla-La Mancha is among the entities that denounces "the misuse" that is being made of the medications destined for diabetes.They consider that among the problems there can also be shortages due to the lack of manufacturing of the 'pens' or the needles with which insulin have to be injected, but they warn that the excess when accessing this medicine to lose weight is making many diabetics notFind the medicine they need.
From the organization chaired by María José Salmeron, they warn of this lack of supply, due to "fashion" to lose weight with this product and points out that pharmacies are doing "the possible and impossible" for being able to find alternatives for diabetics, because they are aCollective that they still need, and urgently, this medicine, for whose boom in demand laboratories seems not to have the manufacturing response they should.
Problems with more than 900 medications
As of January 15, 2024, in Spain there are supply problems with 903 medications.This is officially collected in the portal that has enabled the Ministry of Health.
The medications that are scarce are the most varied and reasons too.
Thus, the Spanish Medicine Agency recognizes, for example, problems in the supply of Primperan, one of the most used solutions against vomiting;or Dolocatil, Efferalgan or aspirin, among many others.Specifically, it is very difficult to find Plus 500 mg aspirin.
There is also a brand of physiological serum or lithium chloride.The possibilities that are arbitrated from the Spanish medicine agency to overcome the shortage of each product are different.Thus, for example, in the case of lithium chloride it has been authorized that they can be sold, in an exceptional way, in a language other than Spanish, with an expiration date of less than six months.
With a medication as common as ibuprofen, the Health Portal recognizes shortages with two.One Kern Pharma in envelopes and another this same mark but in tablets.It stands out, however, that there is this same medicine with other brands.