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Isn't that the "tonic" in "Gin & Tonic" ?
by ustamills 7y ago
Isn't that the "tonic" in "Gin & Tonic" ?
- _-___________-_ 7y agoIt's an analogue of quinine, which tonic water nowadays may contain varying (quite small) amounts of, depending on brand etc. G&Ts almost certainly won't have any effect on your susceptibility to infection nor your prognosis once infected. But they might help with (or make worse?) the anxiety associated with the panic.
- khafra 7y agoTonic water can contain up to 83mg/L actual quinine. Three 2L bottles of tonic water could get you 500mg, a therapeutic dose of quinine. Unfortunately, I have not found any place that manufacturers note how much quinine is in their tonic water.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoYeah, I remember reading something similar years ago. But I suspect with the proliferation of "craft tonic water" there may be some "flavours" that don't contain quinine at all. And 6L of tonic water is... quite a lot.
- auntienomen 7y agoI read somewhere that gin & tonic was invented because they needed the gin to cover up the taste of the quinine, since the tonic needed to have a _lot_ of quinine to be effective. Shudder.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoYeah, I think something related to the British navy?
- bovermyer 7y agoHere's a decent article on the history of gin and tonic: http://activehistory.ca/2012/08/gin-and-tonic-a-short-history-of-a-stiff-drink/ http://activehistory.ca/2012/08/gin-and-tonic-a-short-histor...
- mnw21cam 7y agoAs someone who has taken uncoated chloroquine tablets mumble years ago, the taste is one of the most foul bitter over-riding tastes one will ever encounter. No amount of sugar mixed in with it took the edge off the taste. The only thing that did it was when they coated the tablets, preventing the chloroquine from touching the tongue.
- sudosysgen 7y agoA surprising amount of medicines have this incredibly foul taste. I was forced to take oseltamivir during the H1N1 epidemic, and I had to share a pill once (two of my siblings needed a half dose). It tasted so incredibly bitter and just mouth-wrenching
- sterwill 7y agoThe worst taste experience I ever had was when I accidentally bit down on an ibuprofen gel cap before swallowing it with a small mouthful of room temperature coffee (it was all I had at my office desk). Wow... it instantly numbed the back of my mouth and throat and tasted like volatile chemical waste. I washed it all down as fast as I could with more coffee but that taste and tingly sensation stuck around for 20 minutes. The ibuprofen did its job though.
- snakeboy 7y ago6L is about 2200 calories worth of sugar if you're drinking Schweppes, so it might cause other complications :)
- empath75 7y agoYou can boil it down presumably. Probably won’t taste very good though. (I do not recommend this and am not a doctor)
- jeltz 7y agoSounds like a ware of time when you can buy tonic syrup and mix it to your own strength.
- DenisM 7y agoYou can also buy quinine pills online.
- OJFord 7y agoThat'd need at least 2L gin to wash it down with though, which could be problematic depending on the frequency of your 500mg prescription.
- benzible 7y agoBe careful - an overdose of quinine can cause cinchonism, which has some unpleasant symptoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchonism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchonism