Side effects of using diet pill in

Side effects of using diet pill in teenagers
Nowadays, teenagers place such great importance on their appearances. Having a perfect shape raises considerable confidence while being overweighed damage confidence. As a result, teenagers seek for the quickest ways of losing their weight so that they can have slimmer bodies and have more confidence. It has been often seen through media that teenagers often use inappropriate weight loss methods which can be dangerous and have deleterious effects. Of these methods include using diet pills. Using diet pills is a popular method among teenagers since they believe that it gives fast action that takes short amount of time without realizing that there will be side effects on themselves.
According to researchers from the University of Minnesota, using diet pills tends to continue into adulthood. Consistently, side effects of using diet pills are found among teenagers. Since diet pills suppress appetite and change metabolism, they interfere with regular functions giving many side effects. These include restlessness, dizziness, dry mouth, and constipation to serious effects such as insomnia. What’s more teenagers who use diet pills may get alarming side effects such as elevated blood pressure, faster heart rate, drug addiction or even death. With these facts, it is not safe for teenagers to take any diet pills. Besides, containing many harmful chemicals that have adverse effects on teenagers, diet pills are not proper for them at all. Many diet pills are addictive causing health problems as mentioned above. Seriously, taking diet pills over a long period of time may cause death in teenagers.
Obviously, using diet pills is excessively increasing among teenagers in Thailand. Recently the Ministry of Public Health expresses its concern on teenagers’ diet pills abuse. The doctors explain that using diet pills inappropriately will lead to suffer. It becomes more dangerous when using diet pills with children under 13 years old and pregnancy women. In addition, Food and Drug Administration of Thailand states that using diet pills must be under the doctor’s supervision. However, teenagers never consult with doctors and buy some diet pills on their own. It is further said that teenagers who use diet pills do not actually lose their fat but only their Body Mass Index resulting in having negative effects from diet pills. After cutting down on the pills, they will gain weight again which is called Yo-Yo effect.
There are many cases of teenagers who had harmful effects from diet pills. One example is a 19 year-old student died of apparent side effects from diet pills. She lost 25 kilograms after taking the pills for two months. Unfortunately, she got heart failure which finally caused her death. Similarly, a19-year-old girl who died of shock recently may have died from sibutramine in diet pills. In this case, sibutramine may be a leading killer as the victim had aortic stenosis as a congenital disease. It could cause broncho-constriction in a person with this disease. Another example is a 17-year-old Singaporean girl who wanted to lose her weight. After taking the pills she immediately suffered from dizziness, light-headedness and heart palpitations. Fortunately, she decided to stop taking the pills or else she would have got lasting damage to her body and liver failure.
It should be noted that teenagers who want to lose their weight should not rely on diet pills since their side effects vary from unpleasant ones to fatal effects. As mentioned above there are some teenagers are lucky enough to stop taking the pills but some are not. Therefore, the better way to protect you from this is to avoid using the pills.