https://quinism.org/press-releases/dangers-of-antimalarial-quinolines-against-covid-19/
The Quinism Foundation Warns of Dangers from Use of Antimalarial Quinolines Against COVID‑19 Use of Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, Mefloquine, Quinine, and Related Quinoline Drugs Risks Sudden and Lasting Neuropsychiatric Effects from Idiosyncratic Neurotoxicity
MARCH 20, 2020
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.”
They are not talking about taking this for ten years.
The study is for prolonged use.
Are you on your boat and out of here yet?
So exactly define susceptible individuals please
That foundation throws out vague crap like that and it makes it hard to believe they are anything but a bunch of lawyers getting ready to sue someone
Hogwash.
Nobody has been talking about taking it for years.
Just for a few months until the virus fades.
The same way the drug has been used for the past seventy years.
When I was in the Marine Corps we took it when we were going someplace with Malaria (such as the Philippines) and then stopped taking it when we went back to the United States where Malaria isn’t a problem.
I don't think anyone is suggesting decades long use.
Which is why it remains a PRESCRIPTION DRUG.
Every Drug has side effects. It is up to a Doctor to make the decision that best suits the Patient involved. A Medical Doctor passing this Drug out like Candy would obviously be dangerous and inept.
As I have heard and read, the Malaria Drug is used alongside the typical Z Pak Medication currently prescribed for Flu and Pneumonia and according to some Doctors it is very effective. It is being used when other Treatment regimens are not effective.
When the choice is life or death, you do what you have to do.
The drug has been used for 65 years. The risks are well known. It’s to a patient and doctor to discuss those risks.
I keep thinking “Yellow Fever” from the Spanish American war..wasn’t quinine designed to cure that disease ???