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The recommended dosage of chloroquine for treatment of an active malaria infection is 1000 milligrams per day on the first day, followed by an additional 500 m
by shadowprofile77 7y ago
The recommended dosage of chloroquine for treatment of an active malaria infection is 1000 milligrams per day on the first day, followed by an additional 500 mg 6 to 8 hours later followed by 500 mg per day for three days afterwards. There are slight variations of this regimen recommended by different clinical sites. The point here being that if this man and his wife both became critically ill less than an hour after consuming whatever form of chloroquine they consumed (possibly literal aquarium cleaner with whatever other chemicals it had), it seems probable that they really, truly fucked up their dosage and the form they took it in in their ignorance or panic. Many people take chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine regularly all over the world for different conditions without harm, it's a well established medicine with well established dosage guidelines that rarely cause problems for a majority of users.
- cameldrv 7y agoThey said it was a teaspoon of Chloroquine Phosphate. I can't find what the density of Chloroquine Phosphate is anywhere, but if it were only as dense as water, that would be 5 grams, which is 5x the first day dose for treating Malaria.
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- shadowprofile77 7y agoSince its therapeutic Index range starts at 4, this would definitely explain why they died if they each had a teaspoon. Very different from somebody buying a package of tablets in a pharmacy, investigating average dosage for other conditions and finding the dosage used in the recent clinical studies against Covid, then taking that much over several days. Edit: it seems they really did just swallow a teaspoon without even checking dosage or a single other thing... I really wonder that the hell they were thinking.