They warned of them and held their owners responsible for the damages
Doctors: Internet recipes are “dangerous therapeutic mixtures”
The therapeutic product is not generalized until after extensive studies.
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Many are victims of misinformation from accounts and pages spread through social media, who promote unknown medicinal and herbal products, claiming that they have the ability to treat many diseases, ignoring the health risks that may lead to death.
"Emirates Today" monitored online accounts, whose owners promote "medical" mixtures, claiming that they are used to treat diseases such as diabetes and cancer, in addition to sexual stimulants, and preparations for the treatment of epidemic diseases and skin, sent to homes, or sold in certain centers.
Merchants of these products, which are sold under the umbrella of "folk medicine" or "alternative", usually resort to advertising their products through social media for pages with high followers.
Doctors warned against resorting to this type of prescription, or medical products, which are sold over the Internet, stressing that they contain misleading claims, such as claiming that they have the ability to treat diabetes and cancer.
They said that they are unlicensed medical prescriptions, and they are not approved by a specialist doctor.
And the consultant of family medicine and occupational health, Dr. Mansour Anwar, considered that patients’ resort to prescriptions and therapeutic mixtures via the Internet “a big problem that may threaten their lives, and expose them to health risks,” stressing that he received patients who suffered from health symptoms due to their consumption of medical products, which they obtained from social networking sites.
He stressed that "the approach of people with chronic diseases to Internet mixtures is a red line, as their exposure to complications increases, and they may suffer more serious health setbacks."
He held the promoters and sellers of these products responsible for the results that affect their users, as they sold them with misleading medical claims that harmed their users and endangered their lives.
The specialist in family and community medicine at Fakeeh University Hospital, Dr. Adel Sajwani, stressed that “medicine must be based on evidence and evidence, as for what is known as alternative medicine, most of it is not based on studies, so everything that is scientifically proven must be resorted to.”
He pointed out that "the achievement of a benefit for one person does not mean that the product or mixture is suitable for everyone, as the therapeutic product is not circulated except after extensive studies and experience on a large number of people, and the extent of potential collateral damage."
He stated that many of those who had kidney diseases and health problems were later proven to be due to their use of herbal products, or products that were not subject to scientific studies, calling for reliance only on products that have been approved by international health authorities.
He added: “The medical specialty is one of the most important things that must be taken into account when choosing treatment methods, as a surgeon cannot treat a diabetic patient, and the internist also does not have surgical information. Every division and specialty of medicine requires years of study, and this information should not be ignored And resort to non-specialists for treatment.”
And Dr. Hamda Khansaheb, Vice President of the Family Medicine Division of the Emirates Medical Association, warned against purchasing any herbal or medicinal mixtures from social media, or any e-commerce means, as they are anonymous, content, and unsafe to use.
She pointed out that many patients suffered from a decline in liver function, types of allergies, and other symptoms, which later turned out to be the result of the patient's use of unknown therapeutic mixtures via the Internet.
And she stated that "eliciting treatment methods from specialized doctors through social media is permissible, especially if it is documented and scientifically based, while caution should be exercised against any doctor who circulates information without mentioning its scientific and official sources."
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