Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus (2021)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2021.580532/full

by OutOfHere • 3 months ago

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gus_massa3• 3 months ago

What is the general medical "consensus"?

After reading a lot of bad "preprints" about ivermectin/chloroquine/hidroxycloroquine against covid-19 during 2020, I take all these post with a huge grain of salt.

OutOfHere2• 3 months ago

If you want the general "medical" consensus, it's that it's both useless and harmful for everything. But that's not the truth about chloroquine. Broadly speaking, the general medical consensus is not worth much, considering they still ask people to not supplement vitamin D3, or to significantly underdose it.

Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and mefloquine are basically something that's good to have on hand. If you're asking the question about whether it's needed, then you don't need it. Chloroquine saved my life during Covid-19 when my chest had just started to take a turn for the worse, and my fevers were also not going away. All it took was 250 mg for two days, repeated after one week. I had some mild palpitations for a month which were managed as needed with 12.5 or 25 mg atenolol. My symptoms disappeared.

I religiously tried ivermectin too another time for Covid-19, but it did nothing for me. It could perhaps help someone with a worm infection, or it's possible it works better when used together with something else. It is just dumb to lump chloroquine and ivermectin in the same group.

Chloroquine itself is mechanistically not supposed to work for Covid-19, but various agents are supposed to bypass its limitation, making it work. These agents are camostat, azithromycin, genistein, quercetin, bromelain, and barbed skullcap. I wouldn't use azithromycin though with chloroquine due to an added cardiac risk, but quercetin+bromelain should do the job quite well. Mefloquine doesn't even have such a limitation. All of this is documented in literature.

Anyway, since you don't seem to need any of it, feel free to keep looking only at the "bad preprints", and conveniently ignoring everything else. The medical system relies on you to propagate the claims that make them rich.

gus_massa3• 2 months ago

I got covid-19 (omicron) after two vaccines doses (AstraZeneca, that is not as effective as the mRNA versions). I took paracetamol/acetaminophen but I got a strong burn sensation in the throat for two days until I notice it was caused by acid reflux so I took anti acid. I still got a lot of phlegm and cough for a few more days. I guess unless there is a preregistered double blind randomized controlled trial it's difficult to separate the signal from the noise.

Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus (2021)

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