Fears as HRT disaster fuels rise of vegan ‘alternate options’ as determined ladies are bombarded

 Determined ladies are being bombarded with Facebook adverts for expensive and contentious menopause therapies through the HRT scarcity disaster, the Day by day Mail can reveal.

GPs say sufferers have been asking about vegan merchandise promoted on their information feeds which are bought as ‘a brand new approach to deal with the menopause’.

However consultants warn ladies to be cautious of ‘exaggerated’ claims about gadgets ‘not as efficient’ as HRT and bought at virtually triple the value of an NHS prescription.

One advert seen by the Mail featured a product that’s not permitted by the UK medicines regulator and never advisable by the British Menopause Society owing to security considerations.

The Mail is campaigning to finish the HRT disaster and our manifesto requires pharmacists to be allowed to dispense substitutes if prescribed HRT is out of inventory.

An advert for MenoFriend, an £18.99 complement made by ‘plant-based’ agency Dr Vegan, options testimonies claiming it alleviated signs inside every week.

A Fb advert for a month’s provide of Really feel Menopause at £26.35 describes the complement as ‘a brand new approach to deal with the menopause’. Each merchandise comprise plant-based compounds which ‘present little worth’ in combating signs, in response to the British Menopause Society (BMS), the authority for menopause well being within the UK.

One other advert incorporates a cream made by Guernsey-based agency Wellsprings and bought for £24.99 that claims to alleviate menopause signs ‘with out the unwanted side effects typically skilled by widespread HRT therapies’. It’s a kind of ‘compounded bioidentical hormone substitute remedy’ not regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare merchandise Regulatory Company within the UK.

The BMS doesn’t advocate it resulting from doubts over efficacy and security. BMS chairman Haitham Hamoda stated: ‘I’d not go anyplace close to this product.’

A spokesman for Meta, Fb’s father or mother firm, stated it had eliminated ‘the violating adverts’.

Wellsprings managing director Trevor Taylor denied that the agency was ‘profiteering’ from the HRT scarcity and stated the agency had been lively on social media ‘for a few years’.

A Dr Vegan spokesman stated that promoting of MenoFriend on social media has not elevated since HRT shortages kicked in.

A spokesman for Really feel stated the corporate doesn’t declare its product can ‘treatment’ menopausal signs or that it advises clients to forgo HRT. Each Really feel and Dr Vegan stated their adverts had not been faraway from Fb.