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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Looks like the one-dollar rag has been called in to make the berserker assaults on the CQ and HCQ...
I’ve decided that drowning in my own snot is preferable to stomach cramps.
No.
Those patients all died.
Aren't you getting tired of stepping over the piles of dead lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients in the streets, like the rest of us?
LIES!
Vitamin C peoples, Vitamin C.
Lots of it.
Why do you think any reference to as an effective preventative/treatment it is being surpressed?
Yup. The first two of these I have seen and they are both from news week. Both right together. Should I be surprised?
Here is a link to the other one for future reference.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3833252/posts
followup to comment #75 -
link for the DM article, which doesn’t mention the 4 tablets. also gets quote from Imperial College to BBC, whose study on COVID was soooo wrong. no surprise there:
Updated 9 Apr: Daily Mail: Swedish hospitals abandon trial of promising malaria drug chloroquine for coronavirus patients after it caused them blinding headaches, vision loss and agonising cramps
by Connor Boyd
Both chloroquine (CQ), branded as Aralen, and counterpart hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), known as Plaquenil, are well-established medicines.
It is unclear which drug the Swedish patients were given, but hydroxychloroquine is thought to be less toxic and causes fewer side effects...
Professor Anthony Gordon, Chair in anaesthesia and critical care at Imperial College London, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning that there was still no strong evidence the drug could treat coronavirus...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8199477/Swedish-hospitals-stop-prescribing-chloroquine-coronavirus-patients-adverse-effects.html
No mention of bad reactions here
Definitely. I remember that from school. Disussed w my pharmacy director because it may impact my already critical blood supply. Bi asked her if she would give either of these to her mom, whom she adores. I wont post her answer but it helped my family.
‘Anecdotal”
Several??? What is several??? Two, three?? And if they stopped the treatment, what did they replace it with???
Sounds like they've decided to let their patients fend for themselves and trying to justify their actions.
I call bs. It is to treat cramps and highly unlikely to cause them. More fake news
Yes, while being treated with other medications.
Newsweak is the a**hole of the media.
searching...searching...searching.......got something boss roll the presses
Lets see, Newsreek. Cramps and loss of peripheral vision versus freaking suffocating to death from the Chinese Heme Burglar Virus.
Decisions, decisions . . .
Aspirin makes my heart race. Nobody should ever take aspirin again. Ever. /sarc
Or ... if you like Matlab
chloroquine ~= hydroxychloroquine
Newsweak latest orange man bad nonsense..
Of course it has side effects all drugs do, but if the alternative is high probability of death...
Time will tell, if this stuff does work or not... but this orange man bad bias is getting tiresome.
I was prescribed Cipro once for a bad systemic infection. It has a weird rare side effect of causing abrupt rupture of Achilles tendons. The tendons on both my feet started to ache within a couple days of taking Cipro. I had to get off it immediately.
It’s a wonder drug; it’s just not for everyone. Who knows why a handful of people have weird reactions to things, but they do.
Not as rare a side effect as you would think.
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