Posted on 04/08/2020 9:17:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Several hospitals in Sweden have reportedly stopped administering chloroquine to coronavirus patients following reports the drug was causing adverse side effects.
According to the national paper Expressen, hospitals in the Västra Götaland region are no longer offering the antimalarial medication, with side effects reported to include cramps and the loss of peripheral vision.
One of the patients affected was Carl Sydenhag, a 40-year-old Stockholm resident. According to Expressen, Sydenhag was prescribed two tablets of chloroquine to take daily after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on March 23.
But instead of making him feel better, the medication produced unpleasant side effects. As well as cramps and vision loss, Sydenhag experienced a headache that felt like stepping into "a high voltage plant," he told the paper.
Magnus Gisslén, a professor and chief physician at Sahlgrenska University Hospital infection clinic, told the Gothenburg Post he and others at the clinic administered chloroquine "like everyone else." But as of two weeks ago, Sahlgrenska University Hospital has stopped all use of chloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19.
"There were reports of suspected more serious side effects than we first thought," he told the Gothenburg Post on April 1, 2020. "We cannot rule out serious side effects, especially from the heart, and it is a hard-dosed drug. In addition, we have no strong evidence that chloroquine has an effect on COVID-19."
There are no specific drugs used to treat the novel coronavirus but many have pointed to the anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as contenders.
The drugs have achieved mixed results in scientific studies. One study suggested it provides no additional benefit to patients who are already receiving care and being treated with antiviral drugs.
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Good. More for us.
cramps and the loss of peripheral vision
or
fighting for every breath to not be your last.
Seems like an easy call.
Here come the coodinated hit pieces. Right on schedule. Led by Newsweak.
Cramps? Give me a break. And more nonsense from Newsweek.
Are they going to stop it for lupus and arthritis patients too?
I am sure they deem this a prudent move, “out of an abundance of caution.”
After all, severe side effects are a real problem. Better just let the patient suffer and die, “out of an abundance of caution.”
“One study suggested it provides no additional benefit to patients who are already receiving care and being treated with antiviral drugs.”
Anyone else notice the game being played here?
Hydroxychloroquine is the newer option.
Although that has been offered to millions, since 1955, I believe.
Chloroquine had more side effects, I heard.
This is the 2nd or 3rd anti-Hydroxychloroquine article from Newsweek today....hmmm
I took chloro-quine during a month in India and the only headache I got was from people yelling at me to buy stuff.
Re; Are they going to stop it for lupus and arthritis patients too?
If they suffer severe side effects, yes, they should.
The question that was not answered by this article is this — How many PERCENT of patients administered with HCQ suffer severe side effects?
There is NO SUCH THING as a drug that does not have side effects for ALL patients. Even aspirin has side effects for certain people.
“Several hospitals in Sweden have reportedly stopped administering chloroquine”
“reportedly” means that some other fake media outlet published a fake story first, which gives license to ALL other fake media outlets to publish said fake story with the word “reportedly” attached, thereby freeing them from independently verifying whether the original fake story was indeed fake or not ...
that’s pretty much how fake news gets spread ...
RE: “One study suggested it provides no additional benefit to patients who are already receiving care and being treated with antiviral drugs.”
Anyone else notice the game being played here?
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They never cited which study. They would have more credibility if they had cited the study, who performed it, where it was performed and under what conditions they were performed, then we could actually look at the methodology and results of the study.
That particular sentence is pretty useless.
We’re they giving Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine? Two different drugs. The hydroxy form (Plaquenil) has fewer side effects.
chloroquine != hydroxychloroquine
I notice three recently posted Newsweek articles either implying negativism, or stating negativism toward prescribing HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE. Apparently a new tactic of the left to raise the death count, and blame our President.
Newsweak.
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