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Ephedrine (Metabolife) Side Effects
Derived from an evergreen plant in Central Asia, ephedra is used as a major ingredient in sport drinks and dietary supplements. Currently, Metabolife International's diet pill is under investigation. Taking Metabolife and other ephedra products heightens alertness by stimulating the central nervous system, but products including Metabolife have been linked to deadly and serious ephedrine side effects. The FDA had been unsuccessfully trying to obtain adverse ephedrine side effects reports from the industry since at least 1997, but since the deregulation of herbal products, the figures had not been collected.
The FDA has been collecting and receiving reports of adverse ephedrine side effects since 1994, and in a September 1994 FDA Medical Bulletin, the agency reported the number was increasing. The reported reactions varied from mild ephedrine side effects to very serious conditions including:
nervousness
dizziness
tremor
alternations in blood pressure or heart rate
headache
gastrointestinal distress
chest pain
myocardial infarction
hepatitis
stroke
seizures
pyschosis
death
Since 1994, the FDA has collected reports of over 100 deaths among ephedra users such as Metabolife. Metabolife is the number one maker of ephedra supplements in the U.S. A report from the Centers for Disease Control on August 16, 1996, reported that the Bureau of Food and Drug safety, Texas Department of Health, received around 500 reports of adverse ephedrine side effects in persons that consumed the dietary supplement products. The adverse ephedrine side effects report total included reports by individuals and as identified by the Bureau of Epidemiology in a review of records from the six Texas Poison Center Network centers. The severity of the ephedrine side effects ranged, but eight ephedrine users died and reports of stroke, myocardial infarction, chest pain, and seizures were reported. The reports included patients that followed the recommended dosage.
According to a December 21, 2000 New England Journal of Medicine article, researchers consider 25 mg to be the recommended therapeutic dose that is usually given with about 200 mg of caffeine. This one dose of Metabolife quickens the heart rate, opens up the bronchial airways allowing more oxygen to become available, and constricts the blood vessels resulting in an increased blood pressure. Some Metabolife users react more strongly to ephedrine compounds whether or not they follow a recommended dosage leading to a reason why Metabolife side effects are experienced.
On October 11, 2001, Public Citizen consumer group made a statement before the National Academy of Sciences on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements citing data collected from January 1993- February 2001 to demonstrate that ephedrine alkaloid dietary supplements have been associated with more deaths, myocardial infarctions, cardiac arrhythmias, hypertension, stroke, and seizure events than all other dietary supplements combined. The data according to the FDA analysis showed during this time frame there were:
3308 adverse events for all dietary supplements, 1398 of these (42%) for the ephedrine alkaloids
137 reports of death, 81 deaths (59%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
38 reports of myocardial infarction/heart attack, 32 reports (84%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
98 reports of cardiac arrhythmias, 62 (63%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
144 reports of hypertension, 91 (63%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
85 reports of stroke, 69 (81%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
121 reports of seizure, 70 (58%) associated with ephedrine alkaloids
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