Posted on 04/30/2020 6:33:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I dont see vitamin A talked about much from the Drs but that Dr I linked and others that I follow do talk about Vitamin D
For some reason I take Vitamin A with Zinc but can’t remember why. It had to be something I read that said they should be taken together to deal with an ear issue I had which is why I originally bought it- ETD.
“Anecdotal!” screech the leftists.
No, HCQ can have side effects which are severe in some patients.
The problem right now is with the closure few doctors are taking new patients, even if they have cash.
Italy and COVID-19
Please, enlighten us as to the severe side effects and prevalence of said side effects.
Dunno about the prevelance, seems like it was maybe three or four men in every platoon. They’d have shakes and chills for maybe three days, and some ran fevers.
I was young and strong, and not one of the ones who got sick.
But we were all young and strong, so side effects are probably much more worrisome for people not in military shape and with a lot of years of accumulated living.
Probably any pharmaceutical site will give you the medical information if you look up hydroxychloroquine.
I wonder where you on chloroquine — that sounds more like the side effect profile. Hyrdoxycholorquine has very few side effects according to the people for whom I have given the drug. I have no experience with chloroquine, but I am under the impression that it was a rougher drug in terms of side effects.
I’m just curious how many Spaniards with incredibly clean aquariums got CIVID.
The military had moved to hydroxychloroquine by the end of the Carter administration, but the dosage was much higher than today’s civilian dosage.
Hydroxychloroquine has a half life of forty to sixty days. After two weeks at 400mg it’s effective for malaria for maybe forty days if you stop, but much longer if you keep taking 400mg per week.
A Marine line battalion on a little island in the Philippines might not be able to dose its personnel for a three month stretch. That requires filling up the troops till they almost puke.
I think logistics is much better now, so it’s unlikely that they still use such heavy doses.
Probably someone still in will read this thread and give a current update if the thread doesn’t get buried.
RE:Sounds likely, but where’s the original paper?
This might help:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092485792030145X?via=ihub
TITLE: Can post-exposure prophylaxis for COVID-19 be considered as an outbreak response strategy in long-term care hospitals?
The PDF version of this paper can be found on the above link as well.
In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, management of exposure events is a concern.
There was a large COVID-19 exposure event at a long-term care hospital in Korea.
Post-exposure prophylaxis using hydroxychloroquine was provided to 211 individuals.
Disease development was successfully prevented without severe adverse events.
VietNam malaria pill was Acloriquine-primaquine-phosphate.
Virtually every major drug discovered in the last century begin as an anecdote.
Then they observed how it performed on a larger scale before moving to double-blind, placebo- controlled trials.
Today’s standards for randomized controlled trials are a relatively new phenomena. Many of the revolutionary drugs that have transformed modern medicine were never subjected to RCTs. Funny, though, they still work quite well.
Thanks for your responses and God bless you for your service.
Thanks, but while I found the reference in Il Tempo to the report, that information was not sourced. I still can't find an original source. What I find instead are conservative websites repeating the supposed findings of the report.
While it would not surprise me if the report was true, I will think of it as fake news until proved otherwise.
I can tell you from personal experience that that degree of sarcasm, especially flying without a sarcasm tag, is going to leave you open to very bitter attacks.
I liken it to your auto mechanic refusing to give you the 3 dollar quart of oil until you can “prove” that your car engine is in trouble by a piston or two seizing up in their cylinders.
One of the smartest people I know, and the greatest boss I ever had, said: "Don't bring that crap in here and get us sick, too. Period."
I could look it up, but I'm interested in what you've seen.
This is one of the better posts I’ve seen about HCQ in the military.
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