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Japanese woman dies, 11 ill after taking Chinese diet pills
Tokyo, July 12: A Japanese woman died from liver failure after taking diet pills from china and 11 other people have fallen ill, health ministry officials said today.
Tokyo, July 12: A Japanese woman died from liver
failure after taking diet pills from china and 11 other people
have fallen ill, health ministry officials said today.
A 60-year-old woman died in a Tokyo hospital in late may, about a month after she began taking the weight-reducing pills, said health and welfare ministry official Takeshi Morita. The 11 others, aged between 30 and 60, also showed signs of acute liver disorder after taking diet pills and food supplements from various Chinese companies, Morita said.
They have since stopped using the slimming products and are in recovery, the Yomiuri newspaper quoted Masayuki Adachi, a doctor at Tokyo's Keio University hospital, as saying. Adachi examined four of the patients, including the woman who died.
Health ministry officials are trying to identify the substances used in the diet pills, labelled as an herbal product containing tea leaves.
Morita said traces of a Thyrotropic hormone and an appetite-suppressant anorectic have also been found, though not listed on the label. The substances are not known to lead to liver failure, Japanese officials said, but are only supposed to be used in medicines.
Slimming products from china have been blamed for at least one death and several illnesses in Singapore. A TV star suffered liver failure in may from taking slim 10, a drug containing Fenfluramine. She was saved when her boyfriend donated part of his liver to her.
Bureau Report
A 60-year-old woman died in a Tokyo hospital in late may, about a month after she began taking the weight-reducing pills, said health and welfare ministry official Takeshi Morita. The 11 others, aged between 30 and 60, also showed signs of acute liver disorder after taking diet pills and food supplements from various Chinese companies, Morita said.
They have since stopped using the slimming products and are in recovery, the Yomiuri newspaper quoted Masayuki Adachi, a doctor at Tokyo's Keio University hospital, as saying. Adachi examined four of the patients, including the woman who died.
Health ministry officials are trying to identify the substances used in the diet pills, labelled as an herbal product containing tea leaves.
Morita said traces of a Thyrotropic hormone and an appetite-suppressant anorectic have also been found, though not listed on the label. The substances are not known to lead to liver failure, Japanese officials said, but are only supposed to be used in medicines.
Slimming products from china have been blamed for at least one death and several illnesses in Singapore. A TV star suffered liver failure in may from taking slim 10, a drug containing Fenfluramine. She was saved when her boyfriend donated part of his liver to her.
Bureau Report