{"id":369330,"date":"2025-11-10T14:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369330\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:17:20","slug":"nhs-fentanyl-alert-to-hundreds-of-thousands-who-drink-this-kind-of-fruit-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369330\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS fentanyl alert to hundreds of thousands who drink this kind of fruit juice"},"content":{"rendered":"

People might find themselves more at risk of ‘serious side effects’\"DrinkingPeople who take a certain medication have been warned against drinking this fruit juice(Image: getty)<\/p>\n

People taking one of the UK’s most commonly prescribed painkillers<\/a> have been given an alert not to drink a common breakfast juice or risk suffering from a major side effect. People should cut this drink from their diet as it could turn the level of medicine toxic without even realising.<\/p>\n

Fentanyl is a strong type of “opioid painkiller”, according to the NHS website<\/a>, which is used to treat severe pain, for example, during or after an operation or a serious injury. Doctors have to prescribe this medicine, which blocks pain signals between the brain and the rest of the body, and has also been found to reduce the anxiety and stress caused by pain.<\/p>\n

Medics<\/a> may consider prescribing this for other types of long-term pain when weaker painkillers have stopped working. It is available to take in different forms, such as lozenges and tablets that dissolve in your mouth, or as patches to put on your skin or through a nasal spray.<\/p>\n

How often you take or use fentanyl depends on the type you’ve been prescribed<\/a>. During whatever period you take the drug for, it will be discussed with a doctor, as there are a few potential side effects that people should be aware of.<\/p>\n

The drug, which was prescribed 812,439 times by NHS primary care services in England in 2022, is often in the headlines due to Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal versions of it being trafficked into the US. However, it is, both in the UK and the US, a prescribed drug used under strict conditions.<\/p>\n

Now the NHS<\/a> has put out a warning about these on its website, so people are fully aware of the risks<\/a> that come with taking this medication. It reads: “Like all medicines, fentanyl can cause side effects in some people, but many people have no side effects or only minor ones. You’re more likely to get side effects with higher doses of fentanyl.”<\/p>\n

\"FentanylFentanyl can only be obtained with a doctor’s prescription(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Common side effects include:<\/strong><\/p>\n