Increased Poison Control Calls due to Ivermectin Ingestion and Potential Toxicity

Mississippi Department of health ^ | August 20, 2021 | Mississippi Department of health

[NoLibZone]

MESSAGE ID: RECIPIENTS: SUBJECT:

Dear Colleagues,

This is an official MS Health Alert Network (HAN) Alert MSHAN-20210820-00532-ALT (Health Alert) All Physicians, Hospitals, ERs, ICPs, NPs, and Healthcare Providers – Statewide Friday, August 20, 2021

Increased Poison Control Calls due to Ivermectin Ingestion and Potential Toxicity

• The Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number of calls from individuals with potential ivermectin exposure taken to treat or prevent COVID-19 infection.

• At least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers.

• 85% of the callers had mild symptoms, but one individual was instructed to seek further evaluation due to the amount of ivermectin reportedly ingested.

• No hospitalizations due to ivermectin toxicity have been directly reported to the Mississippi Poison Control Center or the Mississippi State Department of Health.

• There are approved uses for ivermectin in both people and animals. Patients should be advised to not take any medications intended to treat animals and should be instructed to only take ivermectin as prescribed by their physician.

• Animal drugs are highly concentrated for large animals and can be highly toxic in humans. Some of the symptoms associated with ivermectin toxicity include rash, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, neurologic disorders, and potentially severe hepatitis requiring hospitalization.

• Mississippi physicians, providers and hospitals that identify patients with illness related to the ingestion of ivermectin, either prescribed or livestock formulations, should report to the Mississippi Poison Control

Center at 1-800-222-1222.

Additional Resources • FAQ: COVID-19 and Ivermectin Intended for Animals | FDA • Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19 | FDA

Regards, Paul Byers, MD State Epidemiologist

570 East Woodrow Wilson ● Post Office Box 1700 ● Jackson, MS 39215-1700 601-576-8090 ● 1-866-HLTHY4U ● www.HealthyMS.com

[FreedomForce]

I bet a lot of the calls are by people who haven’t even taken ivermectin. I’ve seen a lot of twitter threads and comments sections of websites(such as the Daily Mail) where the mere mention of ivermectin causes people to start foaming at the mouth. I would not be surprised if the anti-ivermectin crowd is calling poison control to try to undermine ivermectin.

[9YearLurker]

19 of their 20 calls were prank hysterics.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Thanks. I’ve copied your home page to send the chart to my sis. I know you’ve done a lot of research.

[FreedomForce]

Sounds exactly like something they would do. They use tactics like that to cancel people so why not use the tactics to cancel ivermectin.

[Mr Rogers]

"Animal drugs are highly concentrated for large animals and can be highly toxic in humans."

Absolute hogwash! If anything, the dosing in the animal version is a bit weak. Use the lb scale for preventive use and double it if you have COVID already:

"Ivermectin has a wide therapeutic index and previous studies have shown doses up to 2000 mcg/kg (ie, 10 times the US Food and Drug Administration approved dose) are well tolerated and safe..."

https://www.researchprotocols.org/2016/4/e213/

Also: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12362927/

A horse tube has 113,750 mcg of ivermectin. "Well tolerated and safe" for AN ENTIRE TUBE works out to a person who weighs 57 kg or 125 lbs!

[cuz1961]

Increased Poison Control Calls due to

the overdose of obvious propaganda Covid cult media bullsh!t
administered 24/7/30/12.

Cuz EVERY American is sick of it.

( Covid cultists aren’t Americans anymore, they are secular humanist commie woke internationalist globalists)

[CurlyDave]

...I assume that a lb of horse is equivalent to a lb of person!?...

About 8 weeks ago I looked this up and the recommended dosage per pound for a horse was approximately the same as the dosage per pound for a human.

I am a bit over 200 lb and dispensed enough ivermectin paste for 250 lbs of horse into a standard gelatin capsule (not vegetarian). There was a bit of loss of the paste getting it into the capsule, so the dose came out just about right for me. The purpose of the capsule was to avoid having to taste the "apple flavor".

I took this once per week with no ill effects. Then I got Covid and took ivermectin every 3 days for 9 days. I was pretty sick, but recovered what I think is pretty well considering the co-morbidities I have. 2 heart attacks and cancer twice.

[metmom]

If they got the Ivermectin with other active ingredients in it, that may be the problem IF the reports are true.

If someone wants to get the paste, they need to make sure the ONLY active ingredient is Ivermectin.

However, all this could be avoided if the medical community actually prescribed it and gave people the choice of treating it.

At the very worst, it’s not going to work for some people and they may still end up in the hospital. In which case, they are not worse off than if they follow the current medically negligent guidelines of doing nothing at home until they are so sick and debilitated, that need ER care.

At the best, it works and people are now immune and don’t have to worry about COVID, variants, or the vax.

But then again, TPTB have no tool for forcing the vax on people if they recover and are immune. It puts people outside of their control.

[Rebelbase]

Multiple articles like this hitting the news today. I smell JournoList.

[upchuck]

I don’t understand FReepers giving very complicated instructions for using Ivermectin horse paste. The plunger is engraved with marks indicating 250, 500, 750 and 1250 pounds. That measurement is the same for humans and horses and cows and pigs, etc. A pound is a pound.

There is a ring on the plunger that can be rotated to unlock it and then the ring will easily slide back and forth. Set it to the correct poundage and rotate it back to lock it.

Remove the end cap from the tube of Ivermectin, put the end of the tube in your mouth and squeeze the plunger. Done. What could be more simple?

Note the plunger has detents between the poundage markers. If you count the detents, you’ll find there are five detents between each poundage marker. Thus each detent equals 50 lbs. So it you weigh 150 pounds, you need three detents of Ivermectin for a correct dosage. For 200 pounds, four detents, etc.

FWIW, I’m taking Ivermectin as horse paste once a week as prophylaxis on Sat evening. My dose tomorrow night (9/4) will be my seventh dose. Absolutely ZERO side effects except for a third eye with eyebrow that has suddenly appeared in the middle of my forehead.

[EastTexasTraveler]

Notice they do not say how many calls they have had. Probably not more than 2 or 3 unless they are fake calls.

[oldasrocks]

Correct, Calculate the dosage based on body weight. I was told 10cc per Kilgram of body weight.

[MHGinTN]

LOL ... good one!

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t know the official status of Ivermectin. Your strongest
point may have been, it’s not available in a form approved
for humans.

As a general rule, I am very iffy on using animal medications
on humans. Something available for a horse for instance
could be given for an animal with a body weight of 1,400 pounds.

Is it a tablet? Is it liquid? Did it go through the
same food grade level of refinement? Could there be a
problem with a medication that may have some form of
base fluid, that may make it easier to be absorbed by
horses? Could that base fluid be problematic for a
human’s system.

You mentioned that you gave 1/2 the dose the vet would have.
If you were going the other direction you may have had the
same sort of problem.

Your vet didn’t play hard-ball with you. He could have taken
a negative approach in the interest of the cat. He did
suggest you give him a call next time. That’s a kind way
of saying you could have done better for the cat.

Chocolate is a problem for dogs. It’s no problem at all
for us.

[MHGinTN]

You fumbled, “I don’t know the official status of Ivermectin. Your strongest
point may have been, it’s not available in a form approved
for humans.” Since this medication is routinely prescribed for humans, it appears you are posting out of your anal orifice.

[Svartalfiar]

No, a person is not a horse and absorbed and digest things at a different rate.

Actually, for Ivermectin the horse deworming dosage is equal to the human suggested prophylactic dosage. So your 2500lb tube is just about 12 doses for a 20lb human. Then the treatment dose is I think two or three times that.

[Svartalfiar]

85% of the callers had mild symptoms, but one individual was instructed to seek further evaluation due to the amount of ivermectin reportedly ingested.

... So one person actually sick was 15% of the ivermectin callers? Which means the other 5.666 people were fine..

[NoLibZone]

Don’t do math! It’s racist homophobic and misogynistic.
If you do math on their claims it ruins their click bait and philosophy

[Svartalfiar]

! A mg dosage by mg dosage whether it is for a horse or a human is the same!

Not quite.. A mg dosage depends on what it's for - for example, the same size human gets a different dose of ivermectin if it's for prophylactic treatment vs someone who's actually sick. Dosage also depends on the strength of the meds - 1.87% paste will be a different amount than 1% solutions, etc. It just happens that the horse deworming dosage happens to be the same as the human ChinaVirus prophylactic suggested doseage, something like .2mg/kg or so. So your horse pounds and human pounds is the same. But that doesn't always happen.

[DoughtyOne]

I found that there is a tablet and cream for humans.

As for your final rejoinder, please don’t label me by what
you have chosen to conduct yourself as.