Question 45058 — pharmacy and medications

Summary

Ms. Martine Wonner alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health about the use and consequences of treatments with antibiotics from the quinolone and fluoroquinolone class. The facts are similar for many victims, making a medical appointment for a most often innocuous pathology, then a prescription by a local doctor for these third-generation antibiotics, giving rise to negative effects. important and lasting secondary effects. In this case, it is common in France for doctors to prescribe to treat infections without any real need for antibiotics or at least not severe and sometimes even as a preventive measure. However, the European Medicines Agency warned in a recent report about the benefit-risk balance of the use of these drugs. In a 2017 pharmacovigilance investigation, it noted cases of effects lasting secondary effects and at the same time, excessive prescription of these antibiotics for cases that do not require them. These conclusions call for strong limitation and supervision of the use of these medications. This specific observation and the recommendations of the European Medicines Agency do not seem to have been taken into account in the country. This medical denial has profoundly deleterious consequences for the lives of victims of these drugs, both from a medical and social point of view. A lack of diagnosis is mentioned by victims, being systematically referred to a psychological pathology or others such as Lyme disease. The side effects are, however, recognized by many countries such as the United States of America, Belgium and Germany. This leads to non-recognition for patients who will then try to compensate for these effects. secondary by seeking treatment abroad, at enormous costs. These patients in highly vulnerable situations face significant economic difficulties, plunging them into precariousness, including psychological ones. She asks him what he plans to do to limit the use of these antibiotics and for the care of victims currently neglected by the state.

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