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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How interesting -- and encouraging! Thank you so much for pinging me to that info.
Plaquenil is not that bad. It’s just not. In combo with a Z-pack (azithromycin) you wouldn’t know any side effects other than the Z-pack shuffle (diarrhea).
The vast majority of people who work for Big Pharma, some of whom post here on FR, will be extremely happy to see this damn plague defeated, even if their companies don’t make a cent off a low tech solution.
Have taken many antimalarials back in my corporate days, Lariam, Paludrine, Chloroquine, never noticed side effects from any of them.
Of course dosages for WuFlu might be different.
Mefloquine is NOT another version of chloroqine, it is also known as Lariam which is infamous for its negative side effects on some folks. When I picked up my pills at the local pharmacy he said this is terrible stuff where are you going?
Didn’t see negative effects at all but apparently if you take it for a couple of months or more it can be very different.
This doctor had a new video on CV-19 about 5 days a week. Grab a biochemistry/physiology book and read up.
I tried to get this from my doctor on Tuesday and he would NOT give it to me. But his assistant got on the phone and spent 15 minutes talking to the pharmacist.
I think they know it works and they are saving it for those who are exposed.
I have taken quinine before for restless leg, and it did not work, I did have some ringing in my ears.
Tonic water only has a tiny amount. Thanks to the Freeper who posted the map of Covid-19 vs. map of malaria.
bkmk
And... ?
“Systemic argyria associated with ingestion of colloidal silver”
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0832g6d3
I posted this earlier
Interesting cure for malaria works for Wuhan virus.
6 day cure.
“...and even Elon Musk as a potential coronavirus treatment”
That would be a hard pill to swallow...kinda like Flintstone vitamins only bigger.
Oh, no. We can't have anything simple, indexpensive, and (worst of all!) effective that undercuts the bloated, slow, expensive, dictatorial, and panic-mongering apparatuses that we have now! /s
“Do not taunt Chloroquine.”
BREAK OUT THE GIN AND TONIC FOR EVERYONE!
Avigan is very effective
The only (yeah only) side effect that my doctor (who took it also for YEARS), was sudden heart attack syndrome.
The meds really worked for cramping
I love you.
I have taken it as well. It gave me the back door trots and the taste was awful. The Navy corpsmen handed them out in the pay line as a way to make you take it. I finally learned how hold it in mouth without swallowing it. Pick up my pay and go spit it out.
Thanks.
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