Five Oregonians hospitalized due to misuse of Ivermectin for COVID-19

Oregon Health an Science University (OHSU) ^ | 09/19/2021 | Franny White

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The medicine ivermectin is being controversially used to treat or prevent COVID-19, which is causing some people to need medical attention.

Five Oregonians were recently hospitalized because they consumed a potent antiparasitic drug despite there being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19. The Oregon Poison Center strongly recommends the public only use scientifically proven and FDA-approved methods to combat the novel coronavirus.

The Oregon Poison Center  has managed 25 cases involving Oregonians intentionally misusing ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 14. Five of those cases involved hospitalization, and two people were so severely ill that they had to be admitted to an intensive care unit. Although the Oregon Poison Center also serves Alaska and Guam, the vast majority of ivermectin cases it has managed this year have come from Oregon.

“COVID-19 is a devastating disease and can be very frightening, but the public does not need to use -- nor should it use -- unproven and potentially dangerous drugs to fight it,” said Robert Hendrickson, M.D., medical director of the Oregon Poison Center at Oregon Health & Science University and professor of emergency medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine.

“Health care providers can help COVID patients by prescribing treatments that are already carefully tested and approved,” Hendrickson said. “And vaccination, in combination with masking, physical distancing, frequent hand-washing and other measures, continues to be the best way to avoid getting infected.”

The Oregon Poison Center’s recent cases involved a variety of symptoms, including mental confusion, balance issues, low blood pressure and seizure. The patients were in their 20s through their 80s, although most were older than 60. The cases were fairly evenly split between both men and women, and between people attempting to either prevent or treat COVID-19. Some cases involved individuals obtaining a prescription for either human or veterinary forms of the drug.

Both the Food and Drug Administration and Merck, which makes ivermectin for human use, have announced there is no scientific data that supports its use for COVID-19. Neither the FDA nor the National Institutes of Health have endorsed its use for COVID-19, and OHSU doesn’t recommend any use of ivermectin for COVID-19. Initial lab research indicated ivermectin might be able to treat COVID-19, but when tested in human trials, ivermectin did not decrease symptoms or cure the disease.

Ivermectin is approved to treat some parasites in people and some animals.

Those who experience COVID-19 symptoms or are exposed to COVID-19 are encouraged to contact their primary care provider for assistance, and to only go to an emergency department if they are experiencing severe symptoms and need emergency medical assistance. Oregonians who don’t have a primary care provider or have COVID-19 questions can call the OHSU COVID-19 Connected Care Center hotline: 833-647-8222. Those who take ivermectin for COVID-19 and have symptoms or questions can also call the Oregon Poison Center: 800-222-1222.

If you or a loved one is experiencing a poison emergency, call the Oregon Poison Center at 800-222-1222. A trained health care provider is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The call is free and confidential. Poison prevention education and other poison safety resources are available at https://www.ohsu.edu/oregon-poison-center. Accredited by the American Association of Poison Control Centers, the Oregon Poison Center is a designated regional poison control center for Oregon, Alaska and Guam.

[Sirius Lee]

Why does the a word rhyming with “itch” come to mind???

I don't know. My first thought was Petunia Pig.

[wastedyears]

I highly doubt this.

[wastedyears]

You should not inject that. Eat it with something because it tastes rather bad. I took two doses to de-worm; turns out I don’t have any worms. First dose was without anything, it was quite bad. Second dose I had with peanut butter, I barely tasted the ivermectin.

[wastedyears]

Seriously, y’all, the “you are not a horse” Stupidity-19 virus has mutated, and the variant is spreading uncontrollably throughout the fake news media.

I self-identify as a horse. 🐴

[usual suspect]

>There is also a topical version...don’t try that one, it won’t end well.<

I have been putting a thin layer of 1.87% paste on what I suspect to be melanoma on my face. A size of a dime painful crusty red spot that I have had for around 6 months now. After 4 days, the skin lesion is gone!
I’m 71 and golf, play pickleball and fish on the Gulf 2-3 times a week.

[Bobalu]

I could have obtained the same amount of IVM as 12mg tablets but it would have been over 1000.00 and I’m pretty cheap...so
here I am with the foul tasting stuff...

I definitely won’t inject it, I’m rather squeamish about such things when I’m the one getting jabbed...if it’s someone else I can draw a vacutainer of whole blood, start an IV.. even do a cutdown back when that was still done...but injecting myself...nope

[Bobalu]

Please tell me you have seen a doctor about your suspected melanoma :-/

[stars & stripes forever]

Allow the public to have the human dose pills like the do for the rest if the world.

[Twotone]

If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[bray]

Smells like horse apples. You have a higher chance of overdosing on aspirin than Ivermectin.

[americas.best.days...]

I’m jus glad that the Oregon hospital released the 5 patients private health information so we could all read about it!!

[bray]

We saved 3 lives with the horse paste and vitamins.

[bray]

Looks like your average Karen.

[Bobalu]

Very nice :-)

[Kevmo]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992415/posts?page=193#193

Everyone must get the shot. Which tells you that it’s not about a virus; it’s never been about a virus.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3993905/posts?page=11#11

[Cobra64]

You nailed it!

[Bob434]

Sorry, all we have left is co2, will that do?

[little jeremiah]

Interesting. One state - Missouri? - poison control center stated that there were a huge number of calls on ivermectin - turned out something like 2 calls, and they had questions about using it.

I do not believe this. Even if overdosing on ivermectin is very difficult to have bad symptoms. There is one kind that is for external application to animals only, maybe they took that kind (stupidly).

[little jeremiah]

When you make that meme ping me.

I have a bunch of tablets from India. If I need em I’ll take some.

[Titus-Maximus]

Now go back and find the hundreds of cases in the past 18 months from Covid sufferers ingesting liquid hand sanitizer....but that ruins the narrative.