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Weird World: Incorrect medications give children werewolf like symptoms in Spain

A number of children in Spain have had abnormal hair growth similar to “werewolf syndrome” after receiving incorrect medication, officials say.


According to a report by BBC, Seventeen cases have been reported in Cantabria, Valencia and Granada. The children developed the symptoms after receiving medicine for a stomach condition that contained a drug used to treat alopecia, health regulators said.

“My son’s forehead, cheeks, arms, legs and hands were covered with hair… it was very scary,” one mother said.
Following an investigation by the Spanish health regulator Aemps, the source of the condition was traced to a formula issued to parents to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease a muscle condition that affects acid reflux from the stomach in their young children.

A supply of what was thought to be omeprazole was found to contain minoxidil, an ingredient that stimulates hair growth, the regulators said.

A report published on the Aemps website said the medicine had been distributed by a pharmaceutical company in the Málaga region of Spain. Early cases were reported in July and the product was withdrawn from the market.

On Wednesday (28.08.19), Spain’s health ministry said that a batch of the hair treatment formula had been incorrectly labelled and had become mixed up with the stomach drug medication due to an “internal error”.

The pharmaceutical company’s distribution centre remains closed while the investigation continues. The children’s symptoms are expected to improve within weeks as the excess hair falls out, parents have been told.

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