Posted on 03/18/2020 8:43:44 PM PDT by TChad
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, some drugs are showing promise in treating patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. There are no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19, but researchers are testing a slew of existing drugs to see if they could work. One of those drugs is called chloroquine, a widely used anti-malaria pill that was first approved in the US in 1949. Countries including China, South Korea, and Belgium have added it to COVID-19 treatment guidelines as anecdotal reports have suggested that it might work.
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I should not use amoxicillin because I also take blood thinners - warfarin.
>> Thanks to the Freeper who posted the map of Covid-19 vs. map of malaria.
Link? That’s potentially quite interesting.
Geez! Get a room.
But stay six feet apart.
Let’s pass about a couple million dollars worth of them instead of Trillions of dollars in money we really don’t have.
Just mix with some marijuana and the “kids” will love it.
IIRC: Chloroquine is not recommended for people of African ancestry.
Quinine is known to be ototoxic.
As someone who suffers with tinnitus (continuous ringing in the ears) I avoid any thing that might cause hearing loss. Tinnitus is a condition of one’s otoneurology, not the ear. Hearing loss means the only sound one hears is tinnitus.
Note also that the military undoubtedly has large stockpiles, as they face the situation of potentially having to send 100,000 troops into malarial areas on short notice.
The science looks really solid for this.
Sure you can. It has already been done and replicated more than once. Small cohorts (50 active patients or thereabouts), but randomized and with placebo. Gold-standard science.
Already bypassed per executive order. Read the various "Trump coronavirus press briefings". The response of the Trump administration has, IMO, been absolutely masterful.
I think he has pretty much wrapped up his second term simply by virtue of the response to this national emergency.
It depends on the dose. Take too much and you WILL turn have problems.
“Watch for the run on Tonic Water now!”
Sh! Let’s keep it to ourselves.
ANYONE taking antibiotics should also be taking probiotics (available OTC).
I’ve been saying the same thing since these initial studies first started to appear.
But I think the word is out now and Big Pharma won’t be able to stop it. I’ve seen it quoted on several news programs and now Elon Musk is touting it along with well respected researchers.
Start rolling the trucks!
Yeah, I know that they are not the same thing, but people do sometimes confuse the two. As for the negative side effects of Mefloquine, I knew a guy who took Mefloquine and promptly decided to take his chances and quite using it after a couple of days.
My Dr put me on atovaquone proguanil.
She went over side effects of Chloroquine and we both said “Nope”
Everyone, might want to sit down before reading this:
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/chloroquine-side-effects.html
Interesting that appeared to be a very potent synergism when azithromycin was added.
azithromycin is an antibacterial not an anti viral.
I’m retired now and don’t have access to the computers I had when working.
In my opinion hydroxychloroquine is probably the harsher drug since it’s used for diseases like rheumatoid and lupus.
The good news is that unlike chronic users, virus users won’t be on the drug long enough for most side effects to set in.
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