Posted on 09/02/2021 4:18:19 PM PDT by billorites
At first, it seemed odd when an unfamiliar customer bought ivermectin, an animal dewormer.
At Nashua Farmers’ Exchange – surrounded for several miles by concrete and cityscape – the drug meant for treating large animals wasn’t in high demand, but the store regularly kept it in stock. Judy Rata-Harrington, an assistant at the shop, couldn’t imagine another use for the product.
When a couple more customers came in asking for the same animal dewormer, Rata-Harrington knew something was awry. She and her husband, the manager at the store, decided to stop selling ivermectin.
“I just don’t want to get involved with this anymore,” she said.
Across the country, demand for ivermectin has peaked as some believe the drug will cure COVID-19, despite the fact that there is no evidence to support that claim. Though the drug is FDA-approved in humans to treat certain parasitic worms and lice, some have turned to local farm supply stores to purchase animal-grade ivermectin, where the drug is available without a prescription, frustrating store owners and irritating farmers.
Veterinary formulas of ivermectin are often highly concentrated and dangerous for human consumption. Ivermectin overdoses can cause vomiting, diarrhea, hallucinations, seizures, coma, and in extreme situations, death.
Thankfully, it seems purchasers of ivermectin either haven’t taken the medication yet or haven’t ingested enough to become severely ill. Ivermectin-related calls to the Northern New England Poison Center has remained constant from 2018 through 2021, according to a spokesperson from the center.
“There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin,” a press release from the U.S Food and Drug Administration read. “That is wrong.”
Despite the agency’s attempts to debunk the myth, increased demand for the animal dewormers have forced farm supply stores to change the way they sell the product. At the Chichester Tractor Supply Co., yellow containers of ivermection are kept behind a locked cabinet with a large warning label, “Ivermectin HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED by the FDA for use in treating or preventing COVID-19 ... These products are only suitable for animals and are clearly labeled as such.”
An employee at another local animal feed store, who asked not to be named because she did not want to attract more ivermectin purchasers, said after one woman came in and bought 44 boxes of the dewormer, they decided to only sell the drug to regular customers who they know own farm animals.
The run on ivermectin has made it difficult for farmers who rely on the drug to keep their animals worm-free.
Katie Anthony, who uses the drug to periodically deworm her two horses in Sutton, said in March, after her Amazon subscription was backordered and her local farm stores were sold out, she decided to use some expired ivermectin she found in her barn.
Then, her pony, Bella starting showing symptoms of worms, which Anthony attributes to the long period between their dewormings.
“I have goats, dogs, and kids, so making sure we keep a handle on communicable parasites is really important,” she said.
Beth Glasmann, who owns a hobby farm in Goshen, said she is down to her last tube of ivermectin and hasn’t been able to find a refill at her local farm stores or online.
“It makes no sense to me,” she said. “If you use it on goats, you have to withdraw from drinking the milk for seven days and from eating the meat for 14 days. So, why people think it’s a good idea to put that into their body I have no idea.”
Guess she's never checked out the labels on Pen-G & other penicillin's, Vancomycin, Erythromycin, Oxytetracycline & other tetracyclines, and a whole host of other drugs used in both animals & human animals.
Indeed.
seems to be a potential wonder drug...except if you suggest it might help people get over “covid”:
29 Aug: UK Express: Anti-parasitic drug discovered in 1975 could be ‘game-changer’ in fight against cancer
An anti-parasitic drug discovered in 1975 could be a “game-changer” in the fight against cancer, scientists have claimed.
Since its discovery by the Kitasato Institute in Tokyo, Ivermectin has been used to treat some of the world’s most persistent tropical diseases including onchocerciasis, helminthiases, and scabies...
Now scientists at Canada-based pharmaceutical company Mountain Valley MD claim to have found a way to dissolve the drug into a substance they are calling Ivectosol...
According to Mountain Valley MD, Ivermectin could kick start the death of cancerous cells when injected directly into a tumour...
The trials aim to put the drug up against some of the world’s hardest to treat cancers including triple-negative breast cancer, metastatic melanoma, and non-small cell lung carcinoma.
And because Ivermectin is already so well-understood, Mountain Valley MD hopes they’ll be able to bring their new product to market far faster than would otherwise be possible...
If approved this could potentially mean that Ivectosol would be ready for consideration for human applications by early 2022 in the US.
And because the US market is considered the benchmark for much of the rest of the world, global approvals would follow soon thereafter...
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1483711/cancer-news-drug-Mountain-Valley-Ivermectin-latest
Sis and I went to TS today for her supply. I have some. We live in a fairly rural area. Gone.
Whatever happened to “Right To Try”?
I don’t know why it would confound stores, because stores could just order more as the market demands.
Oral paste/gel.
It’s one’s constitutional right to be a fool and by drugs packaged and dosed for a horse. Wise folks would get an off-label prescription from a medical doctor for this potential life-saving drugs. The medical establishment is partially to blame for people buying this drug in paste form with no doctors dose prescription.
Find a doctor on line - give your gender, weight, medications your on, allergies ect. and get a prescription.
I have been taking ivermectin (”the horse medicine”) for a little while now. So far I have suppressed any urge to gallop out the front door and start grazing on the lawn.
Bkmk
"Across the country, demand for ivermectin has peaked as some believe the drug will help with COVID-19 symptoms, when quacksters in the hospitals are sending people home without treatment or therapeutics until they can't breathe."
Fixed it.
Never rely on the babblings of a failed English major like Teddy Rosenbluth when it come to sorting the facts for yourself.
That is a bald faced lie!
Ivermectin de-wormers for horses (can't speak to products for other livestock) have clearly described dosages per lb.s of weight of the animal. The dosage for humans is the same per lb. of weight. If you know your own weight and can do third grade multiplication you can determine the proper dosage. Ivermectin is Ivermectin. There are no other active ingredients in the product for horses. Check it for yourself of course.
So, having exposed this as a blatant lie, why would anyone trust anything the Condord Monitor publishes?
One of the few places that has it without raping you, so far.
It's almost like crimping blasting caps with your side teeth.
Or juggling grenades.
Or maybe they pass this stuff out like candy in Africa to everyone to make peoples' lives better.
All the above, and following orders as to what the “offical narrative” and “approved rebuttals” are for this week.
Dumbass•
Awesome. Will pass along.
Yep.
It may work or it may not, who knows. I’ve heard people using it as a preventative which seems weird/extreme
But at some point isn’t this just people using it out of rebellion/stubbornness, or a broader denial of the whole thing? It’s hard to nail down but they want to make it into a politically motivating anti-mainstream thing so bad they will do anything EXCEPT the general consensus. When it’s not even necessary to do so
Like the same people who didn’t think covid existed a year ago are also the ones buying up all the Interv., who are also the people saying masks don’t work no vaccines take HChQ+ zinc or that only certain people die etc. yada yada
Well, how do you like that? I thought the bodies would be stacked like cordwood from Ivermectin overdoses. Kind of like injecting Lysol into your veins or eating fish tank cleaner.
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