Substandard medication is always risky for the safety of human life. Therefore proper care is needed to avoid such unsafe and substandard medications. Frankly speaking, recently, FDA has launched a survey into the market to test the efficiency of the drugs. Unfortunately, experts of FDA havent got any satisfactory result as they have black listed a number of well known medications to be very poor and full of side effects. For instance, Baycol is such an unprotected medication which was called up from the market due to lot of negative features. One of the major side effects of this medication is rhabdomyolysis which is caused through the intake of this drug.
It is seen that in comparison to Statins, this medication is much prone to the side effect of rhabdomyolysis. The survey report has also confirmed the 100 deaths have taken place due to the consumption of Baycol. It is very painful but it is real. When there was an official declaration about the suspension of this medication, the health minister of Germany lambasted Baycol manufacturing company based in Leverkusen due to their false propaganda and advertisement about the true effectiveness of this drug. It is called a breach of contract and the company is liable to compensate victims who have been tortured and injured by taking this medication.
It is also true that the more devastating result has come when people have used the combined medications of Baycol and Gemfibrozil. People have suffered extremely owing to the usage of these medicines. Till now, the company has released the fund amounting to $842 million for the settlement of 2224 cases. Bayer, the manufacturing company of Baycol is still under pressure and it is under the surveillance of a class action in Pennsylvania. Bayer is now running through critical time to fight with its rivalry group.
There are other symptoms like weakness, fever or the yellowish of the skin texture and eye balls which can appear in a person after consuming this medication. This medication is also very harmful to patients who are already addicted to wine. In addition, pregnant women will try to avoid the usage of this drug. One thing should be committed to memory, in case a person runs through the epileptic episodes or seizure, he must avoid consuming this medication. Relying on the tectonic of the facts given by FDA, Baycol is harmful to the pregnant ladies as there is higher chance of doing lot of damage to the unborn kids.
Symptoms of the muscle cell problem, rhabdomyolysis, one of
Baycol®’s dangerous side effects, include muscle pain and
weakness, general fatigue, fever, nausea and vomiting, and dark
and discolored urine (reddish, rose, or cola colored urine).
Rhabdomyolysis causes the blood serum levels of plasma
creatine kinase (ck) levels to be very high. Acute kidney failure can
occur and can cause death. The diagnosis of the problems
associated with Baycol® may have been difficult for the patient's
physician. For this reason, there may be many undiagnosed
deaths from acute kidney failure associated with Baycol®. There
may also be some patients who suffer chronic muscle problems
related to their use of Baycol®.
