HERBS, SWEETS, Cakes, E-liquids for electronic cigarettes in CBD: Consuming these products based on cannabis derivatives during treatment can reduce efficiency or increase the undesirable effects of a large number of medications, warn health authorities on Tuesday.
Selling since 2015 in different forms and consumed by their “real or assumptions on the welfare of people”, the CBD “is not a medicine,” the National Medicine Security Agency (ANSM) said in a statement.
This requires surveillance, in view of 58 cases of interactions with medications identified by the antipoteros centers between 2017 and 2023 and 4 serious cases, a number “undoubtedly strongly underestimated”, identified by the pharmacovigilance network in 2021/2022.
“If you feel undesirable effects while taking CBD and medicines, or if your treatment seems to act differently, more or less strong, for example, since CBD consumes (…) contact your doctor or request advice from your pharmacist,” the agency recommends.
Report to the medical use of CBD products
Interactions have been observed with 17 families of drugs, including analgesics, anticoagulants, antidiabetics, antibiotics, anti -fungal, antidepressants, antiepileptics, antipsychotics, hypnotics, benzodiazepines and metadeone.
But it is likely that the CBD interacts with other types of drugs “not yet identified”, the drug agency specifies.
The ANSM asks people under drug treatment and who use or plan to use CBD products, including those who exceed the accountant, who report it to their doctor, who will take into account their recipe.
In the case of “nausea, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, fatigue, headache, suicidal ideas and behaviors, epilepsy” after the consumption of a product that contains CBD, you must stop consuming it and consult your doctor.
These effects can occur independently of the form of the CBD consumed (sweets, cakes, herbs …), after a few hours as several months of consumption, and any frequency of the latter, specifies the ANSM.
Source: BFM TV
