Officials in Austria say residents were hospitalized with low blood sugar and seizures after taking what they thought was Ozempic, a weight loss drug.
Health officials in Austria are the latest to warn the public to stay away from sketchy sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, following recent reports of severe adverse effects linked to counterfeit products. Residents have reportedly been hospitalized with dangerously low blood sugar and seizures after taking these drugs, which may have actually contained insulin.
This drug class has been used for more than a decade to help manage blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes, but more recently, some of them have been adapted into treatments for obesity—treatments that have been genuinely much more effective than past obesity drugs. These drugs have appeared to be generally safe and tolerable as well so far, though people will commonly experience gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea and vomiting while taking them.
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