The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned Nigerian men against using performance-enhancing substances to impress their female partners as these substances could lead to death.
In a goodwill message on Sunday, signed by the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, he denounced the preponderance of performance-enhancing drugs, popularly known as “Manpower” in the Nigeria market.
She explained that most performance-enhancing drugs were smuggled into the country and are not registered with the Agency.
According to him, “If they were registered, the producers and peddlers wouldn’t get it to the supermarkets, social media platforms and on the streets.
“Many men have died using such drugs, and their relatives would blame their death on some imaginary witches in the village. Some of the producers of these drugs will claim they have no side effects.
“Majority of these products did not go through the approval process of the agency, and the agency will not relent in the running after the peddlers of such dangerous drugs until they’re brought to book for violating the regulations.”
The NAFDAC boss said that most human beings require intimacy and healthy sexual life, which determines their overall well-being.
She noted that many individuals, in recent times, have been caught in the web of such circumstances, leading them to seek a way out of the wood, and the use of aphrodisiacs has become the range.
She said that many people are ignorant of the possible damage the misuse of aphrodisiacs or unregistered drugs could cause.
According to her, the rampant use of aphrodisiacs has a lot of implications in the entire body system, which could potentially affect blood pressure.
“When you have a disproportionate flow of blood to a particular part of the body and lasting longer than normal, they tend to disrupt the normal flow of the circulatory system,” she said.
Adeyeye further stated that aphrodisiacs could also interact with other drugs in the system and cause problems for the liver, which could be responsible for the breakdown of medications while the byproduct of all waste goes down through the kidneys.
She said that when these things are used, especially with some herbal medicines that don’t have dosage and professional prescription, it could lead to internal organ damage and hurt the liver and the kidneys, and this could cause untimely death.
She said that the way the body system works, everything should function the way God designed it.
She said, “when we begin to disrupt the functions of the body organs over time, it affects the imbalance and the ecosystem of how the body physiology works and can lead to unintended consequences.
“For those who have certain health risks, like hypertensive people or people that have heart disease, there is more of anxiety that the drug could stimulate into the system and can lead to changes in the physiology of the body, stroke or sudden stoppage of the heart.
“These happen in cases when men suddenly slump during sexual intercourse as reported in Rivers and Cross River States recently.
“There are a lot of side effects. Every drug is a potential poison. Every drug has one side effect or the other.
“These are chemical products with side effects. In some cases, there are associated Adverse Drug Reactions that could lead to death.
“It is not all cases of sudden death that are caused by witches and wizards in the village, but in most cases, they are caused by what we eat or drink carelessly,” she said.
