Just Can Use 2 Viagra pills a month, Patients Protest

News Health Articles - Just Can Use 2 Viagra pills a month, Patients Protest. A busy middle-aged couples will want to enjoy a romantic evening with your partner after a tired working all day. With physical conditions that are sometimes not seprima first, such a powerful drug Viagra became the mainstay. But in England there is a new policy should give doctors only 2 pills viagra in a month.

Is the National Health Service (NHS), the health watchdog in England, which imposed new guidelines are prescribing Viagra. The document that contains the new policy suggests that patients who require physicians Viagra or similar drugs should be limited to two pills per month. This number decreased from the previous recipe, which is four pills per month.



Use of erectile dysfunction drug has been tightened by the NHS and can only be prescribed to patients with certain conditions such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis and prostate cancer. According to the NHS, there have been about 2.2 million prescriptions issued erectile dysfunction drugs last year with a total of 14.5 million tablets and cost approximately 78 million pounds, or Rp 1.1 trillion.

NHS recognizes that there is no clinical reason to limit the number of tablets. But according to the study, the average person have sex four times a month. According to NHS guidelines drawn up, the average frequency of sexual relations in the age range 40-60 years is a once a week.

The new policy aims to save the budget for the treatment of non-essential and recommends that physicians provide the minimum dose, ie two times per month using the drug with the lowest cost. This guide applies to the drug sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra) and tadalafil (Cialis).

Obviously, this policy is reaping many protests.

"Ask most doctors and they will say that the ability to live a satisfying sex life is an important part of the health and well-being. But the NHS has never admitted it in its policies for the treatment of erectile dysfunction," said Richard Hoey, editor of Pulse, the magazine's health the UK.

"Limiting the drugs like Viagra only twice a month as if it treats sex as an unnecessary luxury. Failing to identify those suffering it can cause the men experience erectile dysfunction," said Hoey as reported by The Telegraph, Thursday (8 / 12 / 2011).

Erectile dysfunction is very common in middle-aged and elderly men. An estimated 50 percent of men aged 40-70 years experienced the condition in several levels.

Viagra and similar drugs can be purchased individually. But with the price around 40 pounds or USD 565 000 for eight pills can be prohibitive, and the patient also still have to pay for a private prescription.

This new prescription guidelines prepared by the South Central Priorities Committee dealing with NHS health care in the province of Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Berkshire East, Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire in the UK. NHS spokesman said that any decision made by the NHS can not prohibit a prescription, but membderi recommendations for physicians.

"This is a way for doctors to engage in a dialogue with patients about the patient's needs. Restrictions recipes for family physicians is derived from the national black lists and gray lists that define who is eligible to receive certain drugs. Local Committee considers the recommendations as a rule sometimes who must be obeyed, but that's not true, "said Dr. Paul Roblin, chief executive medical committee of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxon.