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.

[BobL]

Sounds like they should INSTRUCT people on how to use Ivermectin, rather than simply waiting for them to show up in the Hospital. Or, better yet, allow doctors to prescribe the medication, since then there are never any problems with people having reactions.

[DesertRhino]

Well if the revolutionary people’s health department of Oregon says so, it must be true.

[kiryandil]

I have a great idea!

Make this dirt-cheap therapeutic, which they give away free to illiterate African villagers, available to Americans like they can buy Lotto tickets!

After all, they're just as harmless as Lotto tickets, in the right doses.

Tax them!

Just give them the therapeutic with instructions.

Or you're just coming off like Nazi doctors who are toying with your captive tortured subjects.

[roving]

[dforest]

Propaganda bullsheet in the highest degree.

[goodnesswins]

Exactly...but I think they’ve made prescribing it illegal in Oregon (it comes in pill forms for MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD.)

[JoeRed]

There is no way five people in Oregon ended up in ICU from taking ivermectin. If they were in ICU, it was probably for covid, and depending on their ages, they were likely fully vaccinated.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

We know how the last “OMG... people are poisoning themselves with horse paste” story went, don’t we?

DEBUNKED, RETRACTED, and BINNED, but not till the damage was done.

Compare and contrast Uttar Pradesh with Karemala provinces in India.

Hint: .00006% positivity vs 19.5% positivity.

This kind of disinformation leaves blood is on your hands no matter how much you wash them, Pontius.

[Deaf Smith]

"COVID-19 is a devistating disease"

Yes it is.

It only has a 99.78% survival rate.

*Only if you are not in severe car or motorcycle crash

Have a heart attack

Dying of cancer (see: Ron Wright)

Dead in a house fire

And other types of attributed deaths.

[kiryandil]

   

[stormhill]

My thoughts exactly.
It's obvious that allowing people to misuse the drug is part of a misinformation campaign to present the vaccine as the only option to the threat of Covid. Once you contract it, there's nothing to be done, there's no treatment allowed. Lost in the story is that no one died of this poison; with a little guidance, everyone might have avoided any adverse reaction, let alone hospitalization or IC.

I guess the death of a few anti-vaxers is worth the greater good of forcing the majority to submit to the jab.

[LilFarmer]

“ despite there being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19”

Yeah, right 🙄

https://ivmmeta.com/

[kiryandil]

Robert Hendrickson and Mengele have a lot in common.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

At this point, I just don believe anything from leftists.

[stormhill]

Yeah; history will be hard on some of these nice people. I regret I’ll probably not live long enough to witness the People’s tribunals.

[Eddie01]

only 5?

That’s amazing.

Someone should investigate this scientific data point.

[cableguymn]

“despite there being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19.”

didn’t make it very far before the lie detector pegged.

[Irenic]

Did they drink the external liquid?

[logi_cal869]

You win the Gold Star.