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What will the effect of drinking quinine tonic be as a preventative measure?
by Xunxi 7y ago
What will the effect of drinking quinine tonic be as a preventative measure?
- rimliu 7y agoMost likely none, given the concentration.
- Etheryte 7y agoI can't find the thread right now, but someone did a back of the napkin calculation that you'd need to have 200 gin tonics a day to reach any kind of a reasonable level.
- overcast 7y agoIf I have to stay in the same house for the next 3 months, I might come to that.
- protomyth 7y agoI will say that on a number of people I am calling to do orders or follow-up before we close, that I have heard a large amount of children in the backgrounds. Lot of apologizing which isn't really needed, but I guess it is a bit different for folks and some of them might be ready to do gin experiments soon. I do answer their survey that they all are very professional.
- DanBC 7y agoIs this the thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22602008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22602008
- Etheryte 7y agoYeah, that's the one. Thanks for sharing it.
- celticninja 7y agoso persistence is key. got it.
- baron_harkonnen 7y agoOh I hope someone can make some original strength tonic water and then g&ts can be of medical value once again!
- jerrysievert 7y agohttps://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/how-to-make-your-own-tonic-water/ https://www.jeffreymorgenthaler.com/how-to-make-your-own-ton... you can buy the cinchona bark on amazon, recipe is very good.
- odiroot 7y agoAnd acquire cirrhosis before the the virus even threatens your lungs.
- robocat 7y agoWikipedia: In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits the quinine content in tonic water to 83 ppm[3] (83 mg per liter if calculated by mass), while the daily therapeutic dose of quinine is in the range of 500–1000 mg,[4] and 10 mg/kg every eight hours for effective malaria prevention (2100 mg daily for a 70 kg adult). How much less than 83mg/litre is unclear. You would do yourself damage with the sugar should you try to drink enough for a dose. Also it is unclear how effective quinine is compared with hydroxychloroquine. Finally, quinine can have serious side effects, take care.
- peterburkimsher 7y agoThis is anecdata, so beware. For a full story, email me. I have minor symptoms, and have been self-isolating since Wednesday (18) because many people around me were coughing on Monday (16) & Tuesday (17). The government here in NZ has not issued any lockdown instructions. Due to comments here on HN, I decided to buy 4x 1.5 litres of ordinary Schweppes tonic water. Panic buying had not yet struck (it has now, but mostly bread, pasta, and toilet roll). I shared one bottle around the office, and gave one to my homestay family. I've been drinking about 3 glasses per day, a litre at most. It's a sub-clinical dose for sub-clinical symptoms. The bitterness causes immediate sputum production in my mouth. Despite feeling a sore throat yesterday, I haven't yet started coughing. I'm advocating for it in direct messages to friends: not because it's some miracle cure for the virus, but because it eases the coughing symptoms and thus might slow the spread. The placebo effect is probably also very real: I feel like I'm doing something, and that calms me down.
- SpikeDad 7y agoI hope the admins here remove this post immediately. This is dangerously false advice based on absolutely nothing but one ridiculous presumption. If people listen to you they're truly ill informed.
- robocat 7y agoYou are seriously overreacting. He is suggesting drinking a few glasses of tonic water, saying why it is helping him, and prefixed a warning. There is nothing dangerous in his suggestion, and it is obviously not given as a complete medical solution to the epidemic to use for your family.
- fudged71 7y agoIt's as if nobody here has considered that Tonic Syrup is widely available (see any Sodastream aisle at a store) for concentrated quinine https://theginisin.com/tonic-tags/tonic-syrup/ https://theginisin.com/tonic-tags/tonic-syrup/
- paulmd 7y agoNo, you would need to drink 25-30L of tonic water for a preventative dose. For malaria. Coronavirus dose for an acute infection will probably be even higher. Quinine is super bitter, it doesn't take much for flavor use, and the stuff on the shelf is nowhere near the strength that would have been given for brits in tropical posts during those days.