Young Woman's Tragic Diet Pill Death

Photo: Eloise Aimee Parry (Facebook)

With Summer around the corner and some places already heating up, people all over are trying to get beach bodies. Some opt for rigorous work-out routines, others choose dieting methods including pills. Diet pills may seem harmless enough, but a recent tragedy has shown how dangerous they really can be.

A 21-year-old British woman died on April 12 after accidentally overdosing on diet pills. Eloise Aimee Parry bought the dietary pills online which contained the toxic ingredient dinitrophenol (DNP). In a statement posted online by Parry's mother Fiona Parry, she said that her daughter took eight tablets that contained the drug.

The dietary pill containing DNP

via Yahoo!

Eloise was taken to the hospital, where she “was literally burning up from within,” and her metabolism ran “at an explosive level” as doctors tried to save her, her mother said.

“As the drug kicked in and started to make her metabolism soar, they attempted to cool her down, but they were fighting an uphill battle. … When she stopped breathing, they put her on a ventilator and carried on fighting to save her. When her heart stopped they couldn’t revive her. She had crashed. She had taken so much DNP that the consequences were inevitable. They never stood a chance of saving her.”


Police are investigating the death and are warning people about the dangers of buying diet pills online. “We urge the public to be incredibly careful when purchasing medicine or supplements over the Internet,” Chief Inspector Jennifer Mattinson told the Guardian. “Substances from unregistered websites could put your health at risk, as they could be extremely harmful, out of date, or fake.”

WRITTEN BY: VIOLA CONSTANCE | @Voila_its_Viola