'DNP makes you feel like you're on fire from the inside out'

Thursday 23 July 2015 at 4:50pm

A 23-year-old woman who used to take toxic diet pill drug DNP has said her experience of the slimming aid was that it made her feel like she was "on fire from the inside out".

Abigail Davies told ITV News that DNP made her feel like she "couldn't sustain a normal day to day life" and prevented her from doing anything.

She said: "I was confused, disorientated and I couldn't understand or sustain a normal conversation. I couldn't really do much.

"You do feel like your on fire from the inside out, you really do. It's impossible to believe that they are still being sold for human consumption."

Abigail, who first started to develop symptoms of an eating disorder at the age of nine, said she cut out her favourite foods and took laxatives and slimming drugs in a bid to lose weight during the height of her anorexia and body dysmorphia.

Blaming the "dark world of the internet" for allowing young girls such as herself to gain access to dangerous slimming drugs Abigail said she couldn't understand why nothing was being done to stop the sale of drugs like DNP online.

She said: "There's no one checking to see these things that are being sold online, why isn't anyone doing anything to stop these things being sold online."

Earlier today a coroner said he will be writing to the health minister about the "toxic and fatal" drug dinitrophenol, also known as DNP, after ruling that 21-year-old Eloise Parry had died of an accidental overdose of the 'diet pill'.