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Oklahoma having an influx of patients overdosing on Ivermectin
The sudden craze among COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to take Ivermectin an anti-parasitical treatment commonly used in horses and other farm animals has caused an overwhelming amount of people needing treatment for overdosing on the drug across Oklahoma.
Since the beginning of May, weve received reports of 11 people being exposed to ivermectin, said Scott Schaeffer, managing director of the Oklahoma Center for Poison and Drug Information. Most developed relatively minor symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and dizziness, though theres the potential for more serious effects including low blood pressure and seizures with an overdose, as well as interactions with medications such as blood thinners.
Ivermectin treats heartworms in animals. The Food and Drug Administration has only approved the use of the drug in humans specifically for external parasites including head lice and other skin conditions such as rosacea, according to KFOR.
That hasnt stopped people from taking the tablet version of the deworming drug.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-oklahoma-hospital-ambulances-patents-coronavirus-ivermectin-20210902-yqrlniulrbfcdhajchdzq2na34-story.html
joshdawg
(2,638 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Why should a covid-sick child be denied a ventilator in favor of some dumbfuck adult, who willfully turns down effective vaccines in favor of some horse medicine on the advice of Fox "News"?
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Overdoses.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)Demobrat
(8,917 posts)nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, facial or limb swelling, neurologic adverse events, sudden drop in blood pressure, severe skin rash potentially requiring hospitalization and liver injury.
Oh well at least they have their freedom.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Fools get what they deserve!
bucolic_frolic
(42,681 posts)DFW
(54,058 posts)And treat them accordingly, both legally and psychologically.
Marcuse
(7,399 posts)tanyev
(42,363 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)NT
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Darwin would be saying: Shhhhh.... this is natural selection happening before our very eyes. Watch and enjoy.
ripcord
(5,084 posts)SamKnause
(13,043 posts)lark
(23,006 posts)None of their insurances will cover the hospital stay or any treatment because this is not prescribed medicine and is in effect a suicide attempt. So now they will be bankrupt in addition to (nearly) terminally stupid. Of course, for those 11, the terminally stupid part was all too real.
Mad_Machine76
(24,355 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)And still the Republican "leaders" and their Russian bot-buddies keep spewing the lies, and twisting the truth.