Posted on 03/19/2020 12:21:30 PM PDT by Zenyatta
A drug developed over half a century ago to treat malaria is showing signs that it may also help cure COVID-19 — especially when combined with an antibiotic, a promising new study reveals.
Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil — and also used to treat arthritis and other ailments — was determined to be effective in killing the deadly bug in laboratory experiments, Forbes reported, citing findings published March 9 in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal.
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Yes.
Plus supermarkets sell a form of water that carries quinine: tonic water.
So quinine water with my gin will prevent coronavirus?
Kind of reminds me of the TOS episode “The Tholian Web”, in which Dr. McCoy found the antidote for the paranoia attacks affecting the crew by putting a derivative of Klingon nerve gas with alcohol. And then Scotty says “Oh, well, any decent brand o’ Scotch’ll do that.”
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Now you did it. Its gone.
Pass me a G & T, heavy on the T, please.
Plaquenil is off patent and there are many manufacturers of generics.
Yup.
The late forties is more than fifty years ago
A: NO, the levels of quinine in tonic water nowadays is greatly reduced from medicinal levels.
Not for another year, per Caesar Augustus Faucus.
My mother takes plaquenil for lupus. Wonder if it has a preventative affect
Viruses are not “bugs”.
Also good for leg cramps. Side effects can include blindness, though, so...
I assume this contains quinine. When the British added quinine to tonic water for their gin and tonics in malaria-plagued India, did it really help? Wouldn’t the amount of quinine need to be very great?
Plaquenil contains phosphates, so anyone on dialysis might require extra treatments to reduce their blood levels to an acceptable range during the Plaquenil treatment duration.
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