Experts’ latest warning comes as reports of stomach paralysis caused by GLP-1 class weight loss drugs are on the rise.
, they called for the drug to be stopped for even longer — about three weeks before sedation.
“When 90% of it is gone, which is after three weeks, hopefully everything should go back to normal,” Jones said. , a 42-year-old man in Boston who recently began taking Wegovy, had to be intubated and suffered respiratory failure that put him in intensive care. He aspirated food that remained in his stomach despite fasting for 18 hours. on a low dose of Ozempic had fasted for 10 hours before a routine endoscopy prior to bariatric surgery last fall. The procedure had to be stopped because solid food remained in her stomach and she was at high risk for aspiration, the report said.
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