Otrivin should be under doctors prescription, according to medical professionals
How many otrivin deaths have to occur, before this medicine is banned or only available on doctor’s prescription?
In this article the brand name otrivin is written with in lowercase, because this product does not deserve a name.
The word otrivin is used. Though, he actual substance is xylometazoline, sold under different names.Babylonian trick of pharmacyPharmacy producers make things extra complicated by marketing the same product under a variety of names, a factor which increases the risks of medicines in general, and make it more hard to keep the public aware of pharmaceutical dangers.
According to the Wikipage on January 2019, Xylometazoline is available under the following names:Xylometazoline is sold under a number of brand names worldwide, including: Antazol (Square, in Bangladesh), Xylomet (Opsonin, Bangladesh) Cirovin, Klarigen (in Denmark), Nasolin, Neo-Rinoleina, Novorin, Olynth, Otrinoz, Otriven, Otrivin (Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, Greece, Russia, South Africa, Vietnam), Otrivine (United Kingdom, Turkey), Nasomist-X, Otrivin (India)[10], Otrix, Rhinoset, Zenfresh, Naphthyzinium, Xymelyn (in Latvia), Sinutab Nasal Spray, Snup akut, Sudafed, Xylo-COMOD, Xylolin (in UAE), Xylovit, Olynth (in Serbia), Xynosine (in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), Xymelin, Zymelin, Xylostar, Xylorin (in Poland), Nasobol, Xylo Mepha and others (Switzerland), Otrivin or Decozal (in Jordan), Nasic (Romania), Narhimed (Italy).
No products containing xylometazoline are currently marketed or available in the United States. Though, there are products like oxymetazoline, which is in fact the same substance with a slight molecular variation.
Read the full article in the february 2019 issue of VegaTales or download the free promo copy.
 | Otrivin, Deadly Dangers of a harmless medicine By not selling medicines under prescriptions, people get the impression that it has no side effects. But this idea is completely false and spreading dangers and many people die from this fabricated aura of safety. In Vegatales of course we focus on healing by medicinal food. Some food types might actually work better than this synthetic medicine. vegatales feb 2019 article otrivine.pdf (262KB) |
By not selling medicines under prescriptions, people get the impression that it has no side effects. But this idea is completely false and spreading dangers and many people die from this fabricated aura of safety. In Vegatales of course we focus on healing by medicinal food. Some food types might actually work better than this synthetic medicine.
| vegatales feb 2019 article otrivine.pdf (262KB) |
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| adverse effects xylometazoline All adverse effects are well documented but they are not being seen as a reason to stop selling otrivin by shops and drug stores. 0004-2749-abo-81-01-0053 adverse effects xylometazoline.pdf (784.73KB) |
All adverse effects are well documented but they are not being seen as a reason to stop selling otrivin by shops and drug stores.
| 0004-2749-abo-81-01-0053 adverse effects xylometazoline.pdf (784.73KB) |
| xylometazoline ischemic strok People who get a stroke from Otrivin, are survivors of this stroke. What if you don't survive, who will examine the real cause of the stroke? publication-59496 xylometazoline ischemic stroke.pdf (83.52KB) |
People who get a stroke from Otrivin, are survivors of this stroke. What if you don't survive, who will examine the real cause of the stroke?
| publication-59496 xylometazoline ischemic stroke.pdf (83.52KB) |
| Medicinal case of someone paralyzed by Otrivin Xylometazoline_nasal_drops_induced_anaphylaxis_An_.pdf (1.01MB) |
| Xylometazoline_nasal_drops_induced_anaphylaxis_An_.pdf (1.01MB) |