Yaz Deaths Not Just Scary, But Likely
With so many lawsuits being filed against Bayer, the makers of the controversial yet popular oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin, over the drugs' adverse side effects, it is a wonder that the pills are still so popular. After a recent study conducted by Thomas Reuters and released two weeks ago showed that the pills were the most popular oral contraceptive among teens between the ages of 13-18, it is more important than ever to point out the real dangers associated with this drug.
As more and more teens turn to birth control pills as a means of preventing unwanted pregnancies, just as many are using the pill to do combat other problems related to their menses like regulation. Bayer played into that at one point, when they started a successful marketing campaign that promoted some of Yaz and Yasmin's off-label uses, such as curing acne, correcting major symptoms of PMS, regulating menstrual cycles and even helping to reduce the risk of the girls getting ovarian or endometrial cancer.
What Bayer's clever ad didn't do was explain how high the cost was when you took the "magic" pill. Severe and life-threatening side effects — including blood clots, pulmonary embolisms, heart attacks, strokes and deep vein thrombosis — all have the potential to kill these teens. If you ignore the cause of these conditions and just think of the conditions on their own, you can find out that pulmonary embolisms kill tens of thousands of women every year. If you add Yaz to the mix, experts say that many of the deaths that are caused by pulmonary embolisms are Yaz-related.
There are various statistics about heart attack and blot clot deaths as well, but the fact is that young women generally do not die from these conditions unless a drug like Yaz is involved. The main selling point of this drug is its primary ingredient drosperinone. This is a new form of progestin that alters the natural balance of potassium in the body. This is also the biggest reason why Yaz causes the dangerous and often deadly condition hyperkalemia. The fact is that Yaz is more deadly than these teens and young women can ever imagine, but for some reason they keep on taking the risk.
