Posted on 03/20/2020 8:16:29 PM PDT by hapnHal
Use of Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine, Mefloquine, Quinine, and Related Quinoline Drugs Risks Sudden and Lasting Neuropsychiatric Effects from Idiosyncratic Neurotoxicity
The Quinism Foundation has warned of a risk of sudden and lasting neuropsychiatric effects from the use of antimalarial quinolines against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and has urged policy makers, physicians, and members of the public to be alert to such effects.
“The same endosomotropic properties that likely underlie the effectiveness of quinoline antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine against the virus may also underlie their dangers, ” said Dr. Remington Nevin, MD, MPH, DrPH, a Johns-Hopkins trained psychiatric epidemiologist and drug safety expert and former U.S.
Army public health physician, who now serves as Executive Director of The Quinism Foundation. “These are not safe drugs.”“In susceptible individuals, these drugs act as idiosyncratic neurotoxicants, potentially causing irreversible brain and brainstem dysfunction, even when used at relatively low doses,” said Dr. Nevin.
“This drug-induced dysfunction causes a disease of the brain and brainstem called quinoline encephalopathy, or quinism, which can be marked acutely by psychosis, confusion, and risk of suicide, and by lasting psychiatric and neurological" symptoms.
“Symptoms of chronic quinoline encephalopathy include tinnitus, dizziness, vertigo, paresthesias, visual disturbances, nightmares, insomnia, anxiety, agoraphobia, paranoia, cognitive dysfunction, depression, personality change, and suicidal thoughts, among others, ” said Dr. Nevin.
“Particularly among military veterans, in whom these drugs have been widely used for decades as prophylactic antimalarials, these symptoms can mimic and be mistaken for those of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.”
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About The Quinism Foundation The Quinism Foundation, founded in January 2018, in White River Junction, Vermont, promotes and supports education and research on quinism, the family of medical disorders caused by exposure to quinoline drugs, including mefloquine, tafenoquine, and chloroquine.That reads like a think-tank for a class-action lawsuit.
It sounds like dosage & duration are the key factors.
Give the lowest dose necessary for the shortest amount of time to overcome the virus and monitor all adverse symptoms.
Its much safer to die..
I took them when I was in the Marine Corps.
I am fine.
[That reads like a think-tank for a class-action lawsuit. ]
yep.
We can’t use vaccines yet. The Chinese virus has not yet gotten President Trump out of office.
I seen some recent research papers stating that colloidal silver nano-particles reduces the side effects of toxic drugs, too, while making the drugs more efficient for their intended use.
“I took a full course so I wouldn’t get malaria.”
Instead of one of the quinine derivatives, doxycycline (an antibiotic) is another option to prevent malaria. You take one each day, and it wipes out most food borne illness as well (which is especially great in India).
Antibiotics have some potential side effects too, but I ask the Doc for doxycycline for my anti-malarials. I am one of those Service members who have had a bad experience with quinine derivative anti-malarials. Ever since, I just tell the Doc that they give me bad nightmares, and get the doxycycline instead.
Bottom line is that the risk is low with either option, but some individuals may have a bad reaction to either.
Lara Ingram has taken them serval times when she was traveling she looks fine to me!!!
That sounds really stupid.
We want to mostly use this as a preventative (as we have for the past continuous seventy years with malaria) for a few months until the strain dies off.
I haven’t seen any projections asserting that this strain will be around for over a year.
Give it to the people working with the elderly and infirm.
I used to drink a lot of that stuff. No way I'm the wonder I am.
In the “trial” everyone is quoting, it wasn’t used on critical cases. All patients survived regardless of whether they received chloroquinine or not. The patients who received the drug just recovered faster. So, we really don’t know its efficacy in critical cases. This is why we need a real trial. Fast tracked, but not skipped.
That's possible. It depends on the dosage difference and any possible difference between giving to someone who is healthy and someone in critical condition.
I’ve taken it for several month periods a few times in my life and nothing other than some minor gastro issues that could have been caused by anything
This stuff has been around in one form or another since the mid-1950s and used extensively by the U.S. military. IF I had the virus, I’d definitely take my chances with it in a NY second over what some 2018 lawyerized think tank may believe..
Libs are a virus...the DemoVirus.
“CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria. When hydroxychloroquine is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred. People who take hydroxychloroquine for more than five years should get regular eye exams. “
The risks of these drugs are known and now they are being deliberately overhyped.
People wont have to be on them very long, and they don’t have to take that much either for them to work.
For everyone believing the insanity that the world will end with millions dead, a relatively benign, well-known and been-around, generally well-tolerated and safe drug seems to be worrying them a lot more.
And that speaks volumes.
If they cant destroy trump with the coronavirus, how do rhey stop him getting re-elected?
They sure did crap their panties over the long-term damage the virus could do didn’t they?
Lot worse than this.
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