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The doses are higher and the tolerances for impurities are higher. Some drugs animals takes can definitely be the human versions but not the other way around.
by farmerstan 5y ago
The doses are higher and the tolerances for impurities are higher. Some drugs animals takes can definitely be the human versions but not the other way around.
My friend’s dog buys a human anti-fungal drug for his dog that costs $300/month from a pharmacy. But
for example Hydroxychloroquine is a safe drug taken for malaria but you can’t take the version for aquariums!
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago>the doses are higher The dose is how much you take. If the paste is 1.87% it is pretty simple to get the whatever-milligram human dose from that. Agreed on possible impurities. >[HCQ] you can’t take the version for aquariums That is hydrochloroquine phosphate. Not the human medication hydrochloroquine sulfate. I don’t think it’s fair to compare those at all, very much different things. Yes, they have the same prefix, different chemical. Not the same thing in a human and none human form. To my knowledge the only people to have taken that is a couple where the wife was at least temporarily accused of poisoning her husband. As where Ivermectin the brand name in horse paste is the same chemical as ivermectin in human medication, right?
- farmerstan 5y agoDo you really expect people who are dumb enough to take animal versions of medication to be able to figure out a proper dose? I certainly don’t. Even if it were safe to take the animal versions of ivermectin in the appropriate amounts by doing the proper math, you only hear about the ones who failed not the ones who successfully did it.