{"id":8288,"date":"2020-05-20T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2020-08-10T18:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T01:29:51","slug":"hydroxychloroquine-as-prophylaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/20\/hydroxychloroquine-as-prophylaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroxychloroquine as Prophylaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very concerned about healthy people taking hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis \/ a preventive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>What is your experience with a &#8220;-quine&#8221; based anti-malarial?<\/p>\n<p>When I was researching antimalarial drugs for a trip overseas in 2010, I found that all of the quinine-based antimalarial drugs I found caused people to have significant negative psychotic effects, from vivid bad dreams to scary hallucinations and psychotic breaks. The literature says &#8220;up to 25%&#8221; of people have these symptoms but when I put it to my friends, 6 out of 6 people that had taken quinine-based antimalarials like Mefloquine had extremely bad psychotic effects and had to stop taking it for life-threateningly-bad psychosis based reasons. I opted to take doxycycline instead :-).<\/p>\n<p>Yes, hydroxychloroquine has these side-effects (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/drugs-supplements\/hydroxychloroquine-oral-route\/side-effects\/drg-20064216\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/i-have-typhoid-hep-a-tetanus-and-whooping-cough\/\">Here is my post from 2010 on the subject<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very concerned about healthy people taking hydroxychloroquine as prophylaxis \/ a preventive for COVID-19. What is your experience with a &#8220;-quine&#8221; based anti-malarial? When I was researching antimalarial drugs for a trip overseas in 2010, I found that all of the quinine-based antimalarial drugs I found caused people to have significant negative psychotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}