LA doctor seeing success with hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 - Anthony Cardillo, MD - ABC7 Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Los Angeles doctor said he is seeing significant success in prescribing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc to treat patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19.
The drug has long been used for treatment of malaria and conditions such as lupus and arthritis but is not technically approved by the FDA for COVID-19. The agency, however, is encouraging trials and has provided limited emergency authorization for its use to treat COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Anthony Cardillo said he has seen very promising results when prescribing hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc for the most severely-ill COVID-19 patients.
"Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free," Cardillo told Eyewitness News. "So clinically I am seeing a resolution."
Interesting, thank you. Hydroxychloroquine is apparently a zinc ionophore (helps zinc get into cells) but so is Quercetin (and there are others). Weaker, but might still be worth a try, and less side effects. I am hypersensitive to medication but have been using Quercetin with no problems, as a histamine modulator. Best wishes
I use Lamberts Zincatest (and their quercetin) and you can buy direct. They seem to have both in stock and were quick with my last order (last week). Tunbridge Wells (UK)
Excellent, hope it works for you. You can use it dilute as a test to see how low you are and then as a supplement. I use quite a few of their supplements as they are very clean, grain-free (no corn!) etc. Best wishes
I may be wrong but as understand it Hydroxychloroquine will rapidly increase Alpha-synuclein formations and is NOT recommended for those with PD or Motor Neurons.
No PubMed link as such, but I understand that those suffering from PD are excluded from entering the Covid-19 / Malaria drug treatment trials that are being carried out in France.
Yes, I think it is needed, as the French study wasn’t randomised or double blind and some of the deaths were apparently excluded from the findings theguardian.com/world/2020/...
Relatively poor study under the circumstances given the exclusion of participants who went on to the ICU. However, it may prove beneficial to early infection recovery.
What I’ve seen and read about it, it could really make a life or death difference. Unlike someone with Lupus I believe from a dr. I saw interviewed a patient with Covid-19 would only need one dose. Would it be that harmful at one dose to a PD patient? For people like myself with severe Asthma I think it might be the only hope, unless something like plasma becomes available or other drugs.
Again but I may be wrong; I understand All patients with underlying Motor Neuron illnesses (PD, MS, etc.) who require treatment in an Intensive Care Unit for Covid-19 (in France) are not being medicated with these types of drugs or put into a medically induced coma as it is considered to be extremely dangerous to do so.
The advice here for those with PD regarding Covid-19 is to self isolate, staying at home and asking others to fetch medications on your behalf or asking the pharmacy to deliver them where necessary.
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