Toxicologists warned the community against the use of inappropriate medications and household products.
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In the face of the crisis causing the coronavirus pandemic, a couple in Arizona self-medicated with chloroquine phosphate, one of the anti-malaria drugs that President Donald Trump recently mentioned on his social networks, resulting in the death of a man and the state. critical of his wife, according to Banner Health Hospital.
According to the hospital system of Banner Health in PhoenixThe couple, both 60 years old, ingested the substance that is considered “an additive commonly used in aquariums to clean fish tanks”, which caused serious damage to their health.
In a statement released Monday, the hospital’s toxicologists and emergency physicians warned the community against the use of inappropriate medications and household products to prevent or treat the COVID-19.
Trump tweeted Saturday that hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, and azithromycin, an antibiotic, “have a real chance of being important game-changing factors in the history of medicine when taken together,” as they increase new cases of coronavirus.
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Banner Health experts emphasized that in no way should people take the chloroquine to treat or prevent the new virus.
“Given the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medication is not the way to do it,” said Dr. Daniel Brooks, director of the document. Banner Medical Drug Center.
He affirmed that in the face of these crises, “the last thing we want at this moment is to flood our emergency departments with patients who believe they have found a vague and risky solution that could endanger their health.”
Banner’s doctors reported that most patients who become infected with COVID-19 will only require care. symptomatic and self-isolation to avoid the risk of infecting others.
Brooks recommended that patients with concerns about the disease first consult a primary care physician and “strongly” urged the medical community not to prescribe the medication to any non-hospitalized patient.
Toxicologists confirmed that the substance was responsible for the symptoms suffered by the couple, and reported that they expect the woman to survive because she vomited the substance.
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This medicine has created great expectations because recent publications have been made in countries such as South Korea, China and France on positive results when administered to patients with COVID-19, according to different medical organizations, virologists and experts in the field.
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