SU agent prescribed for diabetes treatment may be a drug that may lead to death

If medicine drinking with confidence that "it is a prescription of a doctor" is actually caring for your body ─ ─. A doctor reveals "inconvenient truth" of the medical world.

"Although SU agents such as Amaryl and Euglcon are widely prescribed for treatment of diabetes , I'd like you to pay attention to the elderly especially taking it.

It is the doctor in Nishida Rinka, director of Diabetes Department of Diabetes Internal Medicine, who plays a warning bell so.

"Although SU agents have a large effect of lowering blood glucose levels, they also have side effects that cause hypoglycemia, which leads to a coma when hypoglycemia becomes severe, and may cause death as a result of arrhythmia at the worst if left unaltered. In cases where people are hypoglycemic and transported to a hospital by an ambulance, there are not many cases that have occurred due to SU agents prescribed by doctors. "

So why do many Japanese doctors still continue to use such drugs? "Both physicians and patients have a tendency to care only about" high blood glucose levels. "Nishida points out," We have to think about the risk that blood glucose levels go down too much.

"There are many" SGLT2 inhibitors "prescribing medicines.It is a new medicine that appeared about 4 years ago, but since it does not affect insulin secretion, blood glucose does not decrease too much and there is efficacy to discharge only extra sugar "

If prescribed SU agent, ask doctor to explain the effect and side effect, if you have anxious points ask for change to SGLT 2 inhibitor etc.