Please have the good doc explain 500mg daily of azithromycin x 5 days. It is excessive. Standard dose is 500 day 1, 250 days 2-5. Or 500 daily x3. Thanks.
Not excessive.
The difference is a tapered dose which is for standard bacterial infection, compared to the dosage listed in this article which is to prevent secondary bacterial infection and also to potentially assist with reducing lung wall inflammation (off-label as well).
well perhsaps this virus is becoming known to create nasty deadly infections- which might be why the doses are so high? I dunno- just thinking o ut l oud
I think this doctor calling this a cure for CV is way out of bounds looking at his parameters for whom he treats:
1. Any patient with shortness of breath regardless of age is treated.
2. Any patient in the high-risk category even with just mild symptoms is treated.
I’ll be 60 this year which might put me in the “high risk” category. I have a sore throat and cough, probably due to chronic sinus issues. Would I have been treated and then considered “cured” of CV?
ANYBODY that shows “shortness of breath”? Get a few snoot-fulls of Lysol spray and I start getting short of breath too.
Other studies show these drugs to be helpful - but I think this use on pretty much anybody is not useful, and is a waste of the drugs when actual CV patients need them.
Please have the good doc explain 500mg daily of azithromycin x 5 days. It is excessive. Standard dose is 500 day 1, 250 days 2-5. Or 500 daily x3. Thanks.>>>
Its a high dosage to defeat any bacterial infection of the lungs, and it was likely responsible for mild diarrhea in 10% of Dr. Z.s patients.
It worked.