Oh, a protease inhibitor you say? I was told those were horse dewormers by the media.
This whole thing is bullshit. With this much money at stake we were never going to learn the truth.
“The only way they are alike is that they are both pills,” Petri said.
Dr. Kevin J. Downes, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, agreed, “They are dramatically different molecules. The drugs are different in their structure and their molecular size.”
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Ivermectin binds to glutamate-gated chloride channels and is used to treat parasite infections, said Joseph Glajch, a consultant in pharmaceutical and analytical chemistry.
“These two are so far apart,” he said. “If you look at how they interact with the body..., they don’t even go to the same pathways or receptors.”'
As have people who didn't get any treatment.
That's why we rely on data from more than one case, to figure out relative effectiveness of different treatment methods.
Regardless of the answer, I'm not interested in debating the wisdom of taking dog medicine in unstudied doses for an unstudied treatment with unstudied effectiveness that has a clearly documented ability to strip the lining of your intestines. You want be a trailblazer with every Facebook remedy? Be my guest.
The cultivated animosity towards it is more of a result of propaganda. With this much money at stake, it’s easy to see who might actually be pushing that propaganda.
I'm not anti-Ivermectin anymore than I'm anti-any prescribed drug. I give it to my dog. My dad has used it, under the guidance of a doctor.
It causes kidney failure. Just the thing for treating someone whose lungs are filling with fluid from viral pneumonia.
I really wish at the time they went in the hospital (in December) that I had known the WHO had withdrawn it from their recommended treatment list the month before, in November 2020. BUT that particular piece of news was not important to the people who run the big propaganda campaign against Ivermectin.
Is this a defense of Ivermectin somehow?
> I really wish at the time... that I had known the WHO had withdrawn it from their recommended treatment list the month before
Sounds like the people who don't endorse Ivermectin did in fact say the right thing. "The people who told you" I am referring to are doctors and health professionals, not Internet mobs.
So, you would have to guzzle 20 times the recommended dosage of a foul-tasting elixir to get near a lethal dose. It sticks around in your system for ~4days, so there could be a cumulative effect if you guzzle enough over a few day period.
But still, much less dangerous as Tylenol (toxic at 10g dose; typical therapeutic dose on the order of 1g):
Paracetamol poisoning was first described in the 1960s.[6] Rates of poisoning vary significantly between regions of the world.[8] In the United States more than 100,000 cases occur a year.[1] In the United Kingdom it is the medication responsible for the greatest number of overdoses.[7] Young children are most commonly affected.[1] In the United States and the United Kingdom, paracetamol is the most common cause of acute liver failure.[9][1]
And furthermore, since Ivermectin is a potent antiparasitic, many people are likely to experience Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction to the death of intestinal parasites, which indicates its working, not dangerous. So, take is slow if you also have parasites.
But, by all means, carry on believing what you're told to! ;)
This is a straw man. Lethality isn't the only negative consequence. You don't have to die to hurt yourself for no reason.
> But still, much less dangerous as Tylenol
Another drug I'd rarely if ever recommend taking. Could have saved you the lecture.
>... many people are likely to experience Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction to the death of intestinal parasites
I'm sure some are. My money is on shitting intestine lining being more likely, but whatever.