Posted on 03/06/2021 3:23:14 PM PST by Alter Kaker
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a message for anyone considering taking ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19: Don’t.
The FDA said ivermectin is not an antiviral drug, meaning it isn’t used for treating viruses. It’s only approved for use in humans to combat certain internal conditions caused by parasitic worms and external parasites like headlice.
Certain forms of ivermectin are given to animals to prevent heartworm disease and other parasites. Even so, some people have experimented with the version of the drug intended for horses.
They ended up being hospitalized.
"It’s important to note that these products are different from the ones for people, and safe when used as prescribed for animals, only," FDA stressed in a news release.
The FDA encourages those with a prescription to get ivermectin from a legitimate source and to take it as prescribed. Overdosing can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, dizziness, problems with balance, seizures, coma and even death.
"There’s a lot of misinformation around, and you may have heard that it’s okay to take large doses of ivermectin," the FDA said. "That is wrong."
Throughout the pandemic, small numbers of people have tried to prevent COVID-19 with dangerous methods after being influenced by misinformation.
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Most notably, former President Donald Trump came under fire last spring when he mused aloud about injecting disinfectant as a way to prevent a coronavirus infection. Despite pleas from health officials, political rivals and bleach manufacturers, officials began reporting cases of people drinking cleaning products just days later.
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Those looking for effective ways to prevent infection should follow the FDA’s recommendations, which include wearing a mask, social distancing and hand washing.
They’ve also approved vaccines manufactured by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. Check with your state’s guidelines for eligibility.
This story was reported from Atlanta.
You mean the vaccine priests on FR were wrong? No way!
- Winston Churchill
FDA needs to look at India.
Another hogwash pronouncement by the big pharma shills.
I say BS. A dcotor freind says he takes and recommended I take it after being exposed.
It’s cheap so they are advertising against it.
Truck them, they, Farci, CDC, NIH.... have blood and hundreds of thousands of lives on their hands. Criminal in a honest moral country, which does not exist in the USA.
Ivermectin works like a charm !
I know from personnel experience.
need we say more?!!
Ivermectin is considered one of the safest drugs on the planet.
It has been used in over a billion doses on humans.
Just because some people misuse a drug with massive overdoses, is no reason to claim the drug is inherently dangerous.
Ivermectin is being used in India as an anti-covid-19 prophylactic.
The FDA is worried that their bogus vaccines are in danger.
The insanely cheap Ivermectin is working against the Wuhan Virus too effectively.
As I have stated it is an incomplete treatment. Better than the totally ineffective HCQ not as good as monoclonal antibodies (and yea vaccines)
But the FDA is sort of wrong. It’s not a true antiviral but it is a macro life with anti-inflammatory properties which is probably why it helps. Additionally the article states don’t take the horse form. That is not really all that controversial.
If anyone wants to take horse paste you are probably overdosing. The proper dose is 12 mg a day made for human consumption. And before anyone attacks me I did Rx this prior to having access to much superior drugs specifically bamlanivimab or regeneron. Of late tolcizumab is receiving a second look if bamlanimimab is not available or the patient is trending to stage III disease
Precisely.
I guess it’s only American China virus that it’s not effective for 🙄🙃
Are there any known interactions among the six drugs in your post?
+1
Amen!!
“... former President Donald Trump came under fire last spring when he mused aloud about injecting disinfectant as a way to prevent a coronavirus infection ...”
Yeah, that’s not really what he said.
They ended up being hospitalized.
hydroxychloroquine, Part 2.
Notice the fact-free "reporting" - no discussion on exactly WHAT precipitated the hospital visits.
Did they chug a horse-sized dose of the stuff? **crickets** from the newsliar...
...and government is the source of most of it.
Those looking for effective ways to prevent infection should follow the FDA’s recommendations, which include wearing a mask, social distancing, hand washing and remaining unemployed until we say it is OK to go back to work (if your job still exists then).
They dropped the last part - can't figure out why...
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