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The Quinism Foundation Warns of Dangers from Use of Antimalarial Quinolines Against COVID-19
Quinism Foundation ^ | 20 March 20 | PRWEB

Posted on 03/20/2020 8:16:29 PM PDT by hapnHal

Use of Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, Mefloquine, Quinine, and Related Quinoline Drugs Risks Sudden and Lasting Neuropsychiatric Effects from Idiosyncratic Neurotoxicity

The Quinism Foundation has warned of a risk of sudden and lasting neuropsychiatric effects from the use of antimalarial quinolines against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and has urged policy makers, physicians, and members of the public to be alert to such effects.

“The same endosomotropic properties that likely underlie the effectiveness of quinoline antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine against the virus may also underlie their dangers, ” said Dr. Remington Nevin, MD, MPH, DrPH, a Johns-Hopkins trained psychiatric epidemiologist and drug safety expert and former U.S.

Army public health physician, who now serves as Executive Director of The Quinism Foundation. “These are not safe drugs.”“In susceptible individuals, these drugs act as idiosyncratic neurotoxicants, potentially causing irreversible brain and brainstem dysfunction, even when used at relatively low doses,” said Dr. Nevin.

“This drug-induced dysfunction causes a disease of the brain and brainstem called quinoline encephalopathy, or quinism, which can be marked acutely by psychosis, confusion, and risk of suicide, and by lasting psychiatric and neurological" symptoms.

“Symptoms of chronic quinoline encephalopathy include tinnitus, dizziness, vertigo, paresthesias, visual disturbances, nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, agoraphobia, paranoia, cognitive dysfunction, depression, personality change, and suicidal thoughts, among others, ” said Dr. Nevin.

“Particularly among military veterans, in whom these drugs have been widely used for decades as prophylactic antimalarials, these symptoms can mimic and be mistaken for those of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.”

(Excerpt) Read more at quinism.org ...


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To: BookmanTheJanitor
About The Quinism Foundation The Quinism Foundation, founded in January 2018, in White River Junction, Vermont, promotes and supports education and research on quinism, the family of medical disorders caused by exposure to quinoline drugs, including mefloquine, tafenoquine, and chloroquine.
That reads like a think-tank for a class-action lawsuit.
21 posted on 03/20/2020 8:32:47 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: hapnHal

It sounds like dosage & duration are the key factors.
Give the lowest dose necessary for the shortest amount of time to overcome the virus and monitor all adverse symptoms.


22 posted on 03/20/2020 8:33:15 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: hapnHal

Its much safer to die..


23 posted on 03/20/2020 8:33:53 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: hapnHal

I took them when I was in the Marine Corps.
I am fine.


24 posted on 03/20/2020 8:35:14 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Bratch

[That reads like a think-tank for a class-action lawsuit. ]


The stink of ambulance chasers is strong on this one.


25 posted on 03/20/2020 8:35:17 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Bratch

yep.


26 posted on 03/20/2020 8:35:36 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: hapnHal

We can’t use vaccines yet. The Chinese virus has not yet gotten President Trump out of office.


27 posted on 03/20/2020 8:39:08 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Not a Chinese cover-up. It was a Chinese attack.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

I seen some recent research papers stating that colloidal silver nano-particles reduces the side effects of toxic drugs, too, while making the drugs more efficient for their intended use.


28 posted on 03/20/2020 8:40:05 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

“I took a full course so I wouldn’t get malaria.”

Instead of one of the quinine derivatives, doxycycline (an antibiotic) is another option to prevent malaria. You take one each day, and it wipes out most food borne illness as well (which is especially great in India).

Antibiotics have some potential side effects too, but I ask the Doc for doxycycline for my anti-malarials. I am one of those Service members who have had a bad experience with quinine derivative anti-malarials. Ever since, I just tell the Doc that they give me bad nightmares, and get the doxycycline instead.

Bottom line is that the risk is low with either option, but some individuals may have a bad reaction to either.


29 posted on 03/20/2020 8:40:19 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: MrEdd

Lara Ingram has taken them serval times when she was traveling she looks fine to me!!!


30 posted on 03/20/2020 8:40:57 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: nuconvert

That sounds really stupid.

We want to mostly use this as a preventative (as we have for the past continuous seventy years with malaria) for a few months until the strain dies off.

I haven’t seen any projections asserting that this strain will be around for over a year.

Give it to the people working with the elderly and infirm.


31 posted on 03/20/2020 8:41:50 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Cold Heart
From the article, drinking several bottles of tonic water may lead to pharmaceutical levels of quinolones.

I used to drink a lot of that stuff. No way I'm the wonder I am.

32 posted on 03/20/2020 8:44:38 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Skywise

In the “trial” everyone is quoting, it wasn’t used on critical cases. All patients survived regardless of whether they received chloroquinine or not. The patients who received the drug just recovered faster. So, we really don’t know its efficacy in critical cases. This is why we need a real trial. Fast tracked, but not skipped.


33 posted on 03/20/2020 8:48:35 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Paladin2
6 days of therapeutic use are going to be as bad as however long on it as a bug prophylactic?

That's possible. It depends on the dosage difference and any possible difference between giving to someone who is healthy and someone in critical condition.

34 posted on 03/20/2020 8:49:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: hapnHal

According to The CDC!

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/hydroxychloroquine.pdf


35 posted on 03/20/2020 8:52:31 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: MrEdd

I’ve taken it for several month periods a few times in my life and nothing other than some minor gastro issues that could have been caused by anything


36 posted on 03/20/2020 8:56:19 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: hapnHal

This stuff has been around in one form or another since the mid-1950s and used extensively by the U.S. military. IF I had the virus, I’d definitely take my chances with it in a NY second over what some 2018 lawyerized think tank may believe..
Libs are a virus...the DemoVirus.


37 posted on 03/20/2020 8:57:35 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: tallyhoe

“CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria. When hydroxychloroquine is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred. People who take hydroxychloroquine for more than five years should get regular eye exams. “


38 posted on 03/20/2020 8:59:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: shanover

The risks of these drugs are known and now they are being deliberately overhyped.

People wont have to be on them very long, and they don’t have to take that much either for them to work.

For everyone believing the insanity that the world will end with millions dead, a relatively benign, well-known and been-around, generally well-tolerated and safe drug seems to be worrying them a lot more.

And that speaks volumes.

If they cant destroy trump with the coronavirus, how do rhey stop him getting re-elected?


39 posted on 03/20/2020 8:59:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

They sure did crap their panties over the long-term damage the virus could do didn’t they?

Lot worse than this.


40 posted on 03/20/2020 9:01:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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