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Morocco: Cough Treatment Draws Many Pholcodine-Based Drugs

 


Morocco: Cough Treatment Draws Many Pholcodine-Based Drugs



Morocco: Cough Treatment Draws Many Pholcodine-Based Drugs
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The Moroccan Ministry of Health announced moments ago its decision to suspend marketing licenses for all payments containing pholcodine, common cough and cold treatment, due to the risk of mutual sensitivity with repeat.


The Moroccan Ministry of Health sent a briefing note from the Directorate of Medicine and Pharmacy dated 16 March 2023 informing all health professionals of the decision to suspend the specialization of marketing on the basis of flooding.


Withdrawal of payments containing this substance from the Moroccan market. The Group states that this official decision was taken by the Moroccan Government in accordance with the recommendations of the National Commission on Pharmaceutical Vigilance.


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DMP urges health professionals (prescribers, pharmacists and hospital pharmacists) to stop describing and disbursing folded-based pharmaceutical specialties.


Also, in case of anesthesia or repeat use, health professionals should inquire about patients' consumption of pholcodine-containing drugs to avoid any risk of severe allergies, as the Ministry alerts.


Pholcodine is an Antiderivative morphine derivative of the central act. In Morocco, medicines marketed with pholcodine are essentially cough syrup.


It is an adult drink: "Hexapneumine" and another drink for adults and children: "Trophirès'. Health professionals are therefore required to use therapeutic alternatives.


It should be noted that recent international studies suggest that the use of a folkodin-based drug, used in coughing, poses a high risk of severe sensitivity to the iteration used in general anesthesia.


Even if anesthesia occurs several weeks after taking the drug. As a result, countries such as France and Great Britain ordered the withdrawal of folkodin-based medicines.

 


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