Dangerous medications

Опасные медпрепараты


Your child is sick and you called a doctor, got recommendations ... Do not rush to run to the pharmacy ...

1. Actovegin, Cerebrolysin, Solcoseryl

Drugs with proven inefficiency!

2. Arbidol, Anaferon, Bioparox, Viferon, Polyoxidonium, Cycloferon, Ersefuril, Imunomax, Lycopid, Isoprinosine, Primadofilus, Engistol, Imudon

Immunomodulators with unproved efficacy. Are expensive. The conducted studies do not give grounds to consider arbidol as a drug with proven activity in the treatment of colds, including influenza. Researchers from abroad do not really care about this drug.

3. Bifidobacterin, Bifiform, Lineks, Hilak Forte, Primadofilus, etc.

All probiotics. The diagnosis of "dysbiosis", podalno exposed by our pediatricians, nowhere in the world no longer exists. To the appointment of prebiotics in developed countries are treated with caution.

4. Validol.

Mint candy, which has a remote relation to medicine. Quite a refreshing breath. Feeling pain in the heart, a person puts the language of validol instead of the obligatory in such situations nitroglycerin and leaves with a heart attack in the hospital.

5. Vinpocetine and Cavinton.

Today, it is not recommended for use: no benign study of clinically significant effects has revealed it. This is a substance obtained from the leaves of a Vinca minor plant. The drug is poorly understood. Therefore, in the US and many other countries refers to dietary supplements, and not to drugs. $ 15 a jar for a month of admission. In Japan, it was withdrawn from sale because of obvious inefficiency.

6. Nootropil, Pyracetam, Fezam, Aminalon, Phenibut, Pantogam, Pikamilon, Instenon, Mildronate, Cinnarizine, Mexidol

Placebo preparations.

7. Wobenzym.

Producers assure that it heals, prolongs life and youth. Do not believe in a fairy tale about a miraculous drug that has not been tested in experimental studies just because it's expensive. Pharmaceutical companies invest hundreds of millions of dollars in drug testing, even if there is little hope that it will be possible to prove its effectiveness. One can only guess why these studies on vobenzim have not been made so far. But a lot of money is invested in his advertising.

8. Glycine (amino acid) Tenaten, Enerion, preparations of St. John's wort, Grippol, Polyoxidonium

Drugs with unproven efficacy.

9. RESPRESSED

The drug is not proven effective in ARVI. Erespal in syrup is contraindicated in patients with bronchial asthma and allergies. Because of the dyes contained in it and honey aroma itself can provoke bronchospasm.

10. Gödelix

Efficiency in ARVI in children, and in adults, is not proven.

11.Dioxydin

Contraindicated for children due to high toxicity. It is extremely cautious to appoint adults with a nose and paranasal sinus disease. In case of ear infection, be careful with damage to the tympanic membrane.

12. Bioparox, Cudesan

There have not been major studies, all articles on Pubmed, mostly of Russian origin. "Studies" were conducted mainly in mice.




Biological supplements and homeopathy are not medicines!

1. Aqua Maris - (sea water)

Well, just sea water.

2. Apilac

Supplements with unproved efficacy.

3. New Passit

For a simple tincture of herbs is expensive. When promoting your product, the manufacturer actively used "individual work with key specialists and doctors." * Positioned as anxiolytic - a psychotropic agent that suppresses anxiety, fear, anxiety, emotional tension. Novo-Passita includes a complex of liquid extracts of medicinal plants (Valerian officinalis, Melicia officinalis, St. John's wort, Common Hawthorn, Passionflower incarnata (Passion flower), Common Hop, Black Elderberry) geyfenezinl. It is guaifenesin attributed to the anxiolytic effect of the drug. Meanwhile, guaifenesin is all mucolytic and can not exert the action that is attributed to the drug. Even before going to bed a bit of spirits - still no one interfered ...

4. Omakor

Supplements with unproved efficacy.

5. Laktusan

Supplements with unproved efficacy.

6. Cerebrum compositum (produced by Heel GmbH), Neurochel, Valerianochel, Hepar-compositum, Traumeel, D art, Kanefron, Lymphomyosot, Mudoston, Mukoza, Ubihinon, Objective T, Echinacea, Gripp-Hel and others.

Homeopathy. They are not medicinal products, do not have a therapeutic effect, they have a placebo effect, i.e. Response expectations for use.

7.Protargol-containing silver.

Silver refers to substances of hazard class A along with lead, arsenic and mercury. For the sake of justice, in protargol, a meager amount of silver. It is not recommended for treating a common cold in children.

The absence of a modern official definition and a list of ineffective drugs does not remove the urgency of this problem. We attempted to compile a list of drugs with unproven efficacy. This list is not official. This list was compiled on the basis of Internet publications by leading experts of our country, as well as on the basis of publications of independent Internet resources and primarily on the website of the Cochrane Society. We tried to give the most detailed descriptions of the original sources. Work on it continues, and it may contain inaccuracies.

From the resolution of the Meeting of the Presidium of the Formulary Committee of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences dated 16.03.2007

Immediately remove from the list of medicines for which medicines are provided in the DLO program, obsolete preparations with unproven efficacy - cerebrolysin, trimetazidine, chondroetin sulfate, vinpocetine, pyracetam, phenotropil, arbidol, rimantadine, validol, inosine, valocardin, etc., including , Over-the-counter;