When athletes fall ill

Quite a number of medicines abroad can have identical trade names like your medicine at home. But, even despite the familiar name, they can contain quite different active ingredients. Some countries, like France for instance, do especially label medicines which contain prohibited substances. If your team doctor or local treating doctor at the competition or the local pharmacists is not able to inform you about the potential doping-status of the medication to be taken, you definitely should switch to a clearly permitted substance. In some countries, (like the US, Canada, GB and Japan, or, Austria, France, Sweden, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Singapore and others) the national anti-doping organizations offer online-databases on medicines and their ingredients. In addition, some countries offer this service as apps for mobile phones, too. Look here.