According to new data from the Australian Drug Administration, a common asthma drug has killed at least one person, and life after taking the drug is depressing and suicidal.
It was reported that between January and March this year, there were three reports of suicide deaths in the FDA database, all of which related to the same drug, Singulair (also known as Montekulast).
After dozens of Australian families, including an 18-year-old girl who committed suicide, shared the serious consequences of the asthma drug, Health Secretary Hunt urgently ordered a review of the side effects of the drug.
Nicole Taylor, from Queensland, tried to kill himself a few days after taking the best-selling asthma drug, Singulair.
She said she was disappointed that the asthma drug, which is often used in children, would cause such a big reaction.
Last October, the 25-year-old nursing student took the generic asthma drug Montekulast and found himself depressed or even trying to kill himself.
"soon, in two or three days, I get more depressed, and I don't know why," Taylor said. "I'm lying in bed all day, I don't want to do anything, I don't want to take a shower, I don't want to take care of myself. Suddenly, I had an idea: I wanted to die.
Although she occasionally falls into a mild state of depression and anxiety, the ideal girl says she usually doesn't need medication to get out of the doldrums, and she's never been so depressed.
When she decided to stop taking all the drugs, including a drug to prevent her sudden death, she found herself feeling better.
"I took a lot of drugs for many different chronic diseases. One of the drugs, if I don't take it, will die of cardiac arrest within a week. " But in less than a week, she felt like she was back in shape, she said.
"it was strange that I began to go out and play with people. I'm starting to think, have I changed anything lately? That's when I realized it was Singulair. "
Taylor is one of dozens of cases of adverse reactions to Singulair in Australia after a mother recounted the tragic disappearance of her 18-year-old daughter, Sara Hozen, who tried to commit suicide three months after taking Singulair, in May last year. And then he disappeared.
Dozens of families, including a doctor in the new state, spoke of her 8-year-old daughter trying to kill herself after taking the drug, after her mother disclosed it, and dozens of families, including a doctor in the new state, said she had tried to kill herself after her 8-year-old daughter took the drug. And said doctors lack awareness of the drug's side effects "this is hopeless."
Health Secretary Hutt has ordered an urgent investigation into the potential side effects of the best-selling asthma drug for children.
The drug is commonly used in children, but has serious potential side effects, such as suicidal thoughts, depression, nightmares and psychotic attacks in young children.
From 2016 to 2017, more than two hundred thousand prescriptions for Singulair, also known as Montelukast, were issued across Australia, according to the Australian Drug Administration, (TGA).
This is too scary, to treat asthma to cure severe depression, the family has this medicine or not to eat.