Jacqueline Carvalho is maintaining her innocence

The Brazilian volleyball player Ms. Jacqueline Carvalho is facing the possibility of a nine month ban from her professional sport for failing a doping test in which the weight loss medication sibutramine was found in her doping sample. On October 19th a disciplinary panel will meet to discuss the recommendations from the anti doping prosecutors who have suggested the nine month sports ban.

The sibutramine drug is the key ingredient in the weight loss medicine Reductil and is an extremely popular and effective appetite suppressant for people who have serious weight problems. What we have realised at Ukmedix News over the last few months is that many herbal and so called traditional diet medications that come from India and China are in fact laced with the sibutramine drug.

Jacqueline Carvalho is maintaining her innocence and saying that she had not taken the Reductil drug and therefore it is possible that the way that the sibutramine entered into her body was by drinking a harmless looking weight loss tea. At Ukmedix News we have come across cases of individuals who have suffered from the side effects of the sibutramine drug after having taken some weight loss teas. Sibutramine is a perfectly safe drug if it is administered properly but for some people it can cause heart palpitations and it is very dangerous for individuals who have heart problems to use it.

At Ukmedix News we abhor this dangerous and criminal practice of adding prescription weight loss drugs to harmless sounding teas and other products. Just last month a man in Turkey died after suffering a heart attack after using a fake weight loss medication which he did not realise was bad for him.

Our advice from Ukmedix News is never to use any weight loss medication unless it comes from a licenced UK pharmacy and a prescription has been issued for it. On the Ukmedix web site it is possible to use the Pharmacheck System so that you can confirm the origin of your weight loss medication and even locate the pharmacy from where it comes from.