Public alert to stop using 2 dangerous products for erectile dysfunction and weight loss

SINGAPORE – Two products – one marketed for erectile dysfunction and the other for body weight decline – have been identified to comprise high stages of powerful medicinal ingredients that can induce major adverse effects, hence the community has been recommended to end paying for and consuming them.

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) on Wednesday (April 27) issued an advisory for individuals to avoid AK-II Phenomenal King and Quality Professional S Flash which ended up getting marketed on-line. It explained the items can bring about strokes, heart assaults and other daily life-threatening disorders.

AK-II Phenomenal King is observed to have much more than 60 times the regular recommended dose of tadalafil, a prescription medicine utilised to handle erectile dysfunction.

The item was marketed on the net for sexual enhancement, boasting to be “devoid of animal ingredient, devoid of stimulants, devoid of aspect results”.

HSA reported: “Inappropriate use of tadalafil is risky and can maximize the threat of severe adverse results, which include heart attacks, stroke, palpitations, irregular heart charge and priapism (agonizing and exceedingly prolonged erections).”

Tadalafil can also pose critical challenges to people with heart-relevant issues, as it can trigger likely everyday living-threatening small blood tension in those who are on heart medications, specifically all those containing nitrates.

HSA tested pounds loss item High quality Professional S Flash just after it gained comments from a shopper who skilled rapid heart price, insomnia and nausea right after employing it.

It observed that the item contained high ranges of sibutramine, a prescription-only bodyweight loss drug that has been banned in Singapore considering that 2010 as it improves the dangers of a heart assault and stroke.

HSA mentioned that the ongoing consumption of the products could guide to significant well being implications, including coronary heart issues and central nervous procedure problems this kind of as psychosis and hallucinations.

It included that a purchaser professional exceptionally speedy heart fee and became unconscious in 2019 immediately after consuming the drug. She was resuscitated and necessary a defibrillator implant to help her coronary heart purpose.

High quality Pro S Flash was advertised as a pounds loss solution with natural elements these types of as crimson ginseng, purple sage, wild yam, and as a new version of Flash Slender. Flash Slim was a dangerous product which HSA experienced alerted the community to in March last yr soon after it was discovered to consist of sibutramine.

Both of those Premium Professional S Flash and AK-II Phenomenal King have been sold on area e-commerce internet sites this kind of as Carousell, Qoo10, Lazada and Shopee, as effectively as on social media platforms like Facebook. HSA mentioned that it has labored with the system directors to get rid of the listings and has issued warnings to the sellers.

Customers are suggested to instantly prevent getting the items and talk to a health practitioner if they truly feel unwell or are worried about their well being.

The general public is also reminded to be cautious of solutions that provide speedy effects or carry exaggerated claims as they can have strong elements that can be unsafe.

HSA claimed: “Workout warning when acquiring these types of products on the net as you are not able to be specific in which and how these goods were manufactured and regardless of whether they have been adulterated with harmful components.”

HSA mentioned that all sellers and suppliers need to quit advertising AK-II Phenomenal King and High quality Pro S Flash right away.

It additional that it will not wait to take stern enforcement steps against any person who sells or provides merchandise identified to be adulterated with potent medicinal ingredients. Sellers and suppliers of the two products and solutions can be jailed for up to two years and fined up to $10,000.