Chloroquine is highly toxic and very dangerous: Vietnamese expert

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Recently, the Poison Control Center has treated a poisoned patient after he took 10 chloroquin tablets to prevent COVID-19 disease according to Internet rumors.

According to his family members, at around 12pm on 7/3, V.V.T (43-year-old male from Dan Phuong, Hanoi) took 10 Chloroquine 250mg pills to prevent COVID-19. After drinking for about 30 minutes, Mr. T’s face turned red, and he experienced hot feeling, increased fatigue, trembling limbs, and blurred vision. He was taken to Dan Phuong District Hospital to wash the stomach using activated carbon, then he was transferred to the Poison Control Center, Bach Mai Hospital.

Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen confirmed that this is the first case of malaria drug poisoning taken to prevent COVID-19. Fortunately, the patient was detected early and treated promptly, so he was discharged from the hospital without consequence.

The drug has high toxicity; it should not be arbitrarily used

According to Dr. Nguyen, Chloroquine is a prescription drug, used for patients with malaria, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis...This is a highly toxic drug, the boundary between the treatment dose is very close to the poisoning dose. If used uncontrollably, without expertise, even by non-specialized doctors, it can easily lead to poisoning.

Dr. Nguyen also added that according to the regulations of the Ministry of Health, a prescription drug means that only when the doctor examines and prescribes that medicine, the patient can go to the pharmacy to buy it. A doctor's prescription is required before the pharmacy can sell it. With prescription drugs, people cannot buy by themselves or pharmacies cannot sell without prescription.

The drugstore is only allowed to sell drugs prescribed by doctors and can sell some prescription drugs without prescription. In fact, this has been a very big problem for a long time that we have not yet solved. In developed countries this is done very strictly.

Arbitrary use of Chloroquine can lead to negative health consequences.

Doctors warn that the arbitrary use of drugs subject to prescription has led to neither the right disease is treated nor the right medicine is provided, nor the specific condition of each patient is considered. One of the most obvious consequences of arbitrary use of antibiotics is that bacteria, viruses, and parasites are not killed but that the drug is identified. Then the bacteria, viruses and parasites become resistant to that drug. As a result, the disease is not cured, and when people go to hospital, the doctor runs out of medicine to cure.

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