Video: Risks of Taking Sexual Enhancement Pills

LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – It’s those unregulated ingredients in the pills that can make them dangerous to take.

On the Federal Drug Administration website, it says hidden ingredients are increasingly becoming a problem in these products aimed for sexual enhancement.

“I don’t know enough to say that it would cause you to have a heart attack or a stroke, but I do know it’s not studied well enough for you to swallow it,” says Pharmacist Athelia Baze.

Several of the pills seized from Sensations are listed on the Federal Drug Administrative website advising consumers not to buy or use them.

“These pills are a knock-off sildenafil, which is an active ingredient in Viagra and the active ingredient that we looked up from representative online sites is called sulfaidenetfel, which is not regulated in any pharmacy school or any medical school.”

That’s one chemical causing these sexual enhancement drugs to have a negative reaction with the body.

“They’re mixing these ingredients, unregulated ingredients, chemicals, with herbs and natural herbs at that and those herbs may be interfering with other medications. More people who are on high blood pressure have, like nitrates, low on blood pressure, very dangerously low and that’s why the FDA banned it back in 2009 because it’s interfering with other drugs that are regulated.”

These pills are some of the ones taken from the warehouse.

They’re sold under a variety of names.

“If it’s not approved by the FDA, then that’s why the substances were probably taken away from them, if it’s not approved for human consumption and it may still be under study or being looked into before it can be approved for a person to ingest,” says Columbus-Lowndes Narcotics Task Force Captain Archie Williams.

Williams and his team go after illegal drugs like cocaine and pills that are prescribed, but also illegal without a prescription, and these capsules didn’t fall under that category.

“It did not appear from what I saw to be illegal, yet they may be working on that as well, but as far as I know to date, it is not a controlled substance that is scheduled.”

The owners of Sensations declined to speak with us on the advice of their attorneys.