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Naive question, does this mean quinine may also help, and is there enough in tonic water to have any clinical effect?
by oli5679 7y ago
Naive question, does this mean quinine may also help, and is there enough in tonic water to have any clinical effect?
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- jaynetics 7y ago1. Yes. 2. No, you'd have to drink like 30 liters a day.
- dheera 7y agoNo. 1 liter of commercial tonic water has about 83 mg of quinine, and the typical dose for malaria treatment is 648 mg three times a day. You'd have to drink 23.4 liters of tonic water a day to get that amount of quinine, and you'd probably poison yourself from that amount of water and sugar.
- nullc 7y agoThese doses are quite high though because they are using them for treatment. Preventative doses of chloroquine for malaria are about 300mg per week. I'm not sure what preventative doses of quinine are typically, presumably much higher than chloroquine, but how much higher?