Hydroxychloroquine is safe if you watch what other medications you take and your overall health
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have major drug interactions with other medicines that can put a person at an even greater risk of an abnormal heart rhythm. For example, a commonly used antibiotic, azithromycin, is also being investigated for a possible benefit in treating COVID-19, but it has a known major drug interaction with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Whenever a new drug is to be added, the risk versus benefit of a person’s existing therapy must be re-evaluated. In some cases, usual medications can be stopped temporarily, and chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine could be started. In other cases, it would be harmful to stop usual medications, and chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine could not be used.
Each situation is different and has to be decided on a case-by-case basis.
You’re preaching to the choir on that one. BTW, because of a minor heart condition I picked up a few years ago, I can’t take HCQ.
But I just drink lots of coffee (my normal condition), so I’m not worried. It’s probably why I already rarely get the flu or colds, and when I do it is a minor thing.
I nursed my wife for four weeks with a case of the flu that almost killed her two years ago. I never showed symptms.