Posted on 04/09/2021 12:35:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Plenty of unapproved, dubious, or downright dangerous COVID-19 treatments have come and gone over the past year, but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has come out with a refresher warning after a number of people have fallen sick using horse deworming drugs to treat COVID-19.
The drug is ivermectin, a cheap and widely available medication used to treat parasite infestations. In humans, it’s used to treat head lice and scabies, as well as roundworms, and it’s also widely used on animals to treat parasitic worms. However, the products used to treat humans are different from the ones used on animals, which are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows.
Recent months have seen a growing interest in using ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. All of this remains totally unverified for now, but it has already led to a number of people mistakenly taking horse dewormer in a bid to self-medicate against COVID-19.
“The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses,” the FDA said in a statement.
Much of the hype around ivermectin and COVID-19 comes from a few studies that have suggested ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in a petri dish. A very small clinical trial in January 2021 found that ivermectin did not prevent people from falling sick with COVID-19, but people who took the drug did tend to experience a mild cough and had a lower viral load. Overall, it’s still inconclusive.
The Infectious Disease Society of America advises against using ivermectin for COVID-19 outside of clinical trials. Merck, the pharmaceutical company behind Stromectol, a brand name of ivermectin, also says the medication should be used only for FDA-approved purposes, adding there’s “no meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease.”
The FDA noted that “some initial research” is looking into whether the drug could be used as COVID-19 treatment, but there is currently a lack of evidence to conclude it’s effective."
“People should not take any form of ivermectin unless it has been prescribed by a licensed health care provider and is obtained through a legitimate source,” the agency added. “Taking a drug for an unapproved use can be very dangerous. This is true of ivermectin, too.”
The buzz around ivermectin is reminiscent of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that rose to prominence last year as a possible treatment for COVID-19. The drug was given a rocket boost when then-President Donald Trump revealed at a press conference he was taking hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to ward off COVID-19, despite little evidence either worked.
Hydroxychloroquine became immensely politicized, but much of this hype ultimately fell flat and it never became the “game-changer” its supporters proclaimed it to be. Many clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine failed to show any real benefit in fighting COVID-19, while an influential study that sung its praise was eventually retracted. Sadly, reports of chloroquine poisoning and at least one death were reported after people began taking the drug, or in the death case, a version of it intended for fish, without doctor approval.
For more information about COVID-19, check out the IFLScience COVID-19 hub where you can follow the current state of the pandemic, the progress of vaccine development, and further insights into the disease.
Your response reminded me of a Good Eats episode on oats. They had a historic rendition of an English poet and a Scottish poet discussing the merits of oats.
The English poet dismissed the human consumption of oats by pointing out that the English feed oats to their horses. The Scottish poet responded by pointing out that the English have good horses, but the Scots have good people! :)
LOL !!
And the Philippine FDA has OK’d Ivermectin at one of the hospitals there
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3949278/posts
Willllllllbuuuuurrrrr!
I know a good ole boy who actually did this when he contracted COVID. He was deathly sick that night, but woke up feeling much better the next day. Covid symptoms were gone. Now this guy is a real piece of work . . . not too bright, but a real piece of work.
Used ivermectin to treat my horses all the time when I had them. All you had to do was to spin the ring on the injector to the approximate horse weight and squirt it in the back of their mouth. It was usually apple flavored, so yum for the horse.
RE: All you had to do was to spin the ring on the injector to the approximate horse weight
So, can you spin the ring to the approximate weight of a human being?
....because it is cheap and effective.
Ivermectin horse paste apple flavored put my Lyme disease back into remission. Took once a day on empty stomach for 2 weeks with 8 ounces of water. Then now only take once a week for maintenance.
As for as only used on large animals is bull shit. You can worm your family cat or dog with itt. All types of ivermectin that I have used from cattle pour on to injection you select the dose size by weight. These bureaucrats don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground
My country is Texas
The proper dose is 12 mg per day for five days. It is an imperfect remedy by a mile and not a miraculous cure. However if people choose to use it I would like them to know the proper dose.
YMMV
Sure - if you’re in the 400-500 pound range. It’s apple-saucy good.
Who cares about the stupid bug anymore?
stop posting stories about it
who cares
You’re siding with the communists
Keep this, COMMIE PLOT GOING. I mean going ! man
President Trump declared victory against covid 19. April 16 of last year
that was the first coronavirus news conference in which Bifx Nor Fauci
appeared
The entire government was in for military movement around the country delivering supplies and hospital ships
We had a complete handle on the genome the tape and exactly what this number 11 of known coronaviruses , was
So now here we are in April 2021 and the news media and they’re call me loser masters are trying to keep this thing going
I think we’re free republic need to have a full throated resistance to any more stories I mean any more stories about COVID-19 at all anymore
At this point all it is is a communist plot
A worldwide communist plot
With all the effort of many government officials
FLCCC weekly-Dr Eric Osgood talks to Dr. Jackie Stone of Zimbabwe (April 7, 2021)
Since I always do what the FDA says, A little bird told me it Makes your tongue tingle
This makes it very easy.
“However, the products used to treat humans are different from the ones used on animals, which are often highly concentrated because they are used for large animals like horses and cows.”
Actually, the following is based on published concentrations for a tube of horse wormer I have:
12 mg a day for five days if positive for Covid or symptoms. (https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)32506-6/fulltext)
“For early outpatients with COVID-19, the protocol calls for one dose of ivermectin at 0.2 mg/kg at day 1 and day 3, along with the same daily vitamins and 325 mg per day of aspirin.”
“100 patients with Mild/Moderate COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease) infection received a 4-days course of Ivermectin 400 mcg/kg body weight maximum 4 tablets (6mg / tablet) once daily dose before breakfast plus standard of care as issued by Egyptian protocol of COVID-19 treatment.”
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04668469
From a package meant for horses: “This syringe contains sufficient paste to treat one 1250 lb horse at the recommended dose rate of 91 mcg ivermectin per lb (200 mcg/kg) body weight.” 91 mcg times 1250 gives 113,750 mcg or 114 mg/tube.
https://www.statelinetack.com/contentfiles/Associated_Content/BimectinInfoSheet.pdf
12 mg would then be about 1/10 of a tube.
A 160 lb man getting 0.2 mg/kg would take 14 mg, which is just over 1/10th of a tube.
Folks are welcome to check my math. I know a person who has used it on herself with no ill effect.
If you get some empty gelatin capsules you can put the ivermectin paste in them. Amazon sells a whole set of special little spoons for filling them for about $15.
Always use the ordinary gelatin capsules, vegetarian or vegan capsules have a different formula and are slow-dissolving.
In a capsule avoids the tongue tingle and the apple flavor.
An Englishman was visiting his distant cousin up in Scotland who served him oatmeal for breakfast.
"Oats!", he snorted. "In England, we feed oats to horses!"
"Aye!", replied the cousin "And you see what fine horses they raise in England and what fine men we raise in Scotland."
Those studies were bogus too, loaded in the wrong ways to make sure HCQ wouldn’t come out looking good.
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