Often obesity is associated with excessive food intake behaviour. It becomes vital that to contain obesity one has to restrict the amount of food he intakes. Appetite suppressants are such drugs which help an obese individual to contain the food intake. Suppressing the appetite is important as without suppressing it obesity can not be regulated.
Phentermine is a famed appetite suppressant which acts in the central nervous system and fools the stomach to feel as if it is full. It was approved for sale in the US by FDA in 1959 and subsequently in 1970s Phentermine hydrochloride was introduced. The usage of this drug as an appetite suppressant was at its peak when it was used as an ingredient of cocktail drug named as Fen-Phen. The other constituent of Fen-Phen was Fenfluramine or Pondimin. Later due to severe abnormalities in heart valves started to show up in individuals taking the cocktail. This entailed the FDA to release notice to manufacturers of Fenfluramine to voluntarily withdraw it from market. It should be noted that FDA asked for withdrawal of Fenfluramine and not Phentermine.
In later stage Phentermine got into news as an ingredient of another cocktail to suppressing appetite. The cocktail was named Phen-Pro which contained Phentermine and Prozac. The usage of the cocktail was necessitated as with the passage of dosage of Phentermine its effect subsides on having an effect of appetite suppression.
This shows that Phentermine has been in use as an appetite suppressant to treat obesity. Newer drugs like Adipex, Bontril, Didrex, Diethylpropion, Ionamin, Meridia, Phendimetrazine, and Tenuate are also from the family of Phentermine and acts in the same way as Phentermine. The differences in the name of these drugs are due to the names given by their manufacturers or marketers. Some of these appetite suppressant drugs are of lower dosage. So, seek medical advice before going for these appetite suppression drugs to suppress the appetite for having weight loss.
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