The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.
Due to an increasing number of calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center, the Mississippi State Department of Health warns Mississippians that ingesting livestock ivermectin to combat COVID-19 can be dangerously toxic to humans.
The Poison Control Center has received reports of at least two individuals hospitalized with potential ivermectin toxicity after ingesting livestock ivermectin.
You should not take any medicine to treat or prevent COVID-19 unless it has been prescribed to you by your health care provider and acquired from a legitimate source.
- Don’t take ivermectin intended for animals to prevent or treat COVID-19 (or any animal medications).
- Livestock ivermectin is highly concentrated, is toxic to people, and can cause serious harm.
- You should not take any medicine to treat or prevent COVID-19 unless it has been prescribed to you by your health care provider.
- There are safe and effective medications to prevent and treat COVID-19 infection such as getting vaccinated or asking your doctor aboutmonoclonal antibody treatment if you test positive for COVID-19.
UMC issued the following statement on livestock Ivermectin.
Mississippians
looking for a COVID-19 cure or preventative are potentially putting
their lives in danger by taking the drug Ivermectin, sold at livestock
supply stores as a treatment for heartworms and parasites in cows and
horses.
“There’s no evidence that Ivermectin can either prevent or treat COVID-19, and the risk of attempting to use this is much greater than any potential benefits,” said Dr. David Vearrier, a toxicologist and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for COVID-19 treatment or prevention. The COVID-19 vaccine and monoclonal antibody treatment, however, have been approved by the FDA through an emergency use authorization.
Both the vaccine and monoclonal antibodies are expected to have full FDA approval in coming weeks.
Misinformation on social media is driving people to purchase Ivermectin from their local feed stores or livestock supply businesses. “When these things become viral, a lot of people will jump on them,” said Vearrier, who works with the Mississippi Poison Control Center, which operates under UMMC’s umbrella.
“Folks are believing that it’s somehow possible that this medication will either reduce transmission, or reduce the degree of symptoms of COVID-19, none of which is correct,” he said.
One of the biggest dangers of human Ivermectin ingestion is how easily a person can overdose, said Vearrier and Jenna Davis, a family nurse practitioner and the Poison Control Center’s managing director.
“People are buying a livestock medication intended for an animal five to 10 times their weight,” Davis said. “Generally it’s safe for animals, but depending on the dose you take, it could potentially lead to side effects that could cause death.”
Side effects can include neurological events such as dizziness, seizures and confusion; sudden drop in blood pressure; elevated heartbeat or cardiovascular issues; liver injuries such as hepatitis; and severe skin rash, “all of which can land you in the hospital,” Vearrier said.
That’s in addition to nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, facial or limb swelling, and abnormalities that include a decrease in white cell count.
The Mississippi State Department of Health confirms at least one person has been hospitalized for Ivermectin toxicity and Friday issued a health advisory warning against ingestion of the drug as a COVID-19 treatment or preventative.
“People don’t understand that with all prescriptions, the dose matters,” Vearrier said. “People are buying formulations of Ivermectin that you’d use for a 1,200-pound cow or horse, compared to a 120-pound human. That’s a big difference.”
Ivermectin is commonly sold as paste in a tube, although it’s also marketed in topical cream, liquid that can be ingested or injected, and pill form. “You can feed the paste to the 1,200-pound animal, but because it’s a paste, it’s difficult for a human to measure a dose,” Vearrier said. “People who are squirting this tube in their mouth or putting the paste into orange juice are using super concentrations that can result in toxicity.”
The Poison Control Center has taken a number of calls recently from people wanting to know if the misinformation about Ivermectin is true, and whether it’s safe for humans, or how best to use it for their animals. “We appreciate that,” Davis said.
Other callers have been individuals who Googled the drug and then gave it to a family member, adults who took Ivermectin themselves and suffered side effects, and accidental ingestions by children, Davis said.
People report ingesting Ivermectin by drawing up the liquid into a syringe and squirting it into their mouth, Davis said. Others “are going online to try to find out how to take it, and they are inaccurately dosing it. We’ve referred at least one person to the hospital for doing that.”
And although they were hospitalized for severe cases of COVID-19, some UMMC patients have reported they took Ivermectin, Davis said.
Ivermectin does have a legitimate, FDA-approved use in humans when it’s prescribed for treatment of scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition caused by mites that burrow into the upper layer of skin and lay eggs.
“When it’s used as prescribed for scabies, it’s a relatively safe treatment,” Vearrier said “It’s only available by prescription, so if you are using it to treat COVID, the difference in dosing between a tablet for human use and the livestock formulation is where you’re going to get in trouble.”
The MSDH advisory urges those who have become ill from taking Ivermectin to call the Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Vearrier and Davis advise people not to request an Ivermectin prescription from their provider.
“Most physicians, including physicians who are knowledgeable about COVID, know not to prescribe this medication for COVID,” Vearrier said. “Any physician who is doing so is not following the currently known science. They are increasing the risk to their patient and to the population in general who might believe it to be safe.”
60 comments:
If the animals are going to share their viruses, then they can share their meds, too!
The idiots calling people sheep because they got the vaccine started taking dewormer meant for livestock. You can’t write this shit.
lol
morans, just morans
All this nonsense over 2 damn people? With the media coverage of Ivermectin, one would think every other person is running to the local farm store and chugging a bottle of it.
Geez, folks, quit being so easily duped.
Here's where you can find the good, the bad, and the ugly of Ivermectin and Covid-19: https://c19ivermectin.com/
If only the media covered the side effects of the vaccine as closely.
I listen to doctors so I got the shot.
But if you are insulting the folks that fear the vax, I hope you are at least being honest with yourself and admitting that you have no interest in actually convincing them to feel safe.
You enjoy feeling superior.
You don't have any interest in their wellbeing.
I can respect that.
Article on the FDA website from March of this year states plainly that the FDA has not reviewed any data regarding the use of Ivermectin to treat covid-19. My question is, why not? There are very reputable doctors and scientists who believe it is a potential treatment for covid, so why has the FDA not looked into it AT ALL? Instead, their article follows the same narrative as this article: you shouldn't take it because if you take too much it can be harmful. Well, duh! That's true of everything. But it doesn't excuse the FDA's, uh, let's say "irresponsibility" for all you conspiracy theory haters, in not spending any money, time or effort to investigate any alternative treatments while allowing hundreds of thousands to die to motivate everyone to lap up their new vaccines. I smell a rat, and I think his name is Fauci.
3:20 So you are saying the horse medicine works if you don't take too much at a time???
I wonder how many problems they have with drugs like aspirin and tylenol. I bet they have many more cases and much more serious given how dangerous tylenol is for the liver. But you don't see those stories in the news, do you?
Learn to recognize the propaganda people. You're being manipulated.
@3:20
Let's give 350 million+ people horse ivermectin and then compare the side effects to those of the vaccine.
Thank you @3:23p.
The folks screaming to take the vaccine blindly act as if the thousands of people negatively affected by the COVID vaccine do not matter. But let 2 numbskulls not understand the math to calculate the proper dosing with Ivermectin and they are all jumping up and down and pointing like maniacs!
For fun, now let's do hospitalizations due to the side effects of obesity. Or, drug abuse. Or, alcohol.
You read about Third World folks dying after taking some poison for Covid, and you sort of laugh... Then you read our coverage and the FDA begging folks here not to take horse medicine.... Then, you realize they can vote, and you cry.
It’s the government’s fault. All they have to do is come clean with how it has worked in other countries where approved. As a result, people that are afraid are having to rely on FW: FW: FW: for information to help treat a lab made Chinese virus (that scientists/doctors didn’t want to admit came from China because it would make the cheeto look bad).
Vearrier and Davis fail to acknowledge that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) changed it's position on the use of Ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19 from "no" to "we neither recommend for or against" based on physician testimony and a review of evidence submitted. Intentional deception by omission or woefully ignorant? You decide.
The FDA has released a safety alert that this drug is intended only for animals, not humans! Click on the link above.
But you can't fix stupid.
"'People are buying a livestock medication intended for an animal five to 10 times their weight,'"
This is Mississippi, so perhaps "five to 10 times" the weight of the average livestock is a bit of an exaggeration, but the overall point that idiots shouldn't take livestock medication is valid, whatever their particular cow-to-idiot weight ratio might be. Ol' Bubba Earl down at the Do Drop Inn Fried Lard Cafe passed 3 to 1 on a Holstein cow (not a heifer, mind you, a mature cow) years ago and is headed rapidly to 2 to 1.
This is FAKE NEWS! Ivermectin is a MIRICLE drug! That's a scientific term! The big pharma and medical elites don't want you to know about this. My wife's sister is a certified nurse assistant. The list of diseases that can be cured by ivermectin:
-Diabeetus
-Obesity
-Cancer
-Heart disease
-The flu
-Cirrhosis of the liver
-ADHD
-Impotency
-Sickle cell anemia
-Schizophrenia
-Drug addiction
-Alcoholism
-Nicotine dependency
-Rabies
-Mad cow disease
-The cold
I like to sprinkle some in my coffee every morning when I head out to the stables.
If only more Americans took a safe, free vaccine that saves lives of kids, parents, and grandparents. And tax dollars.
@3:23 They have. Injection site pain, mild achiness, fever, headaches, and nausea.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html
This doctor from Yale provides a fair assessment of our current knowledge about Ivermectin and Covid-19
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954681
3:47, I see you stole the list the potheads keep putting up for all the stuff weed cures.
One of the biggest problems with all the vaccination and ivermectin misinformation is that in their view the media has thrown any pretense of honest and objective reporting out the window, so many people just really don't trust anything they have to say. And the sad part is that depending on the outlet they're probably correct in not trusting them.
Boy howdy, I grew up on a farm by the bayou in backwoods Louisiana. We did a lot of crazy stuff, but one thing we never did was take livestock or poultry medication.
I tried it and not only have I not caught Covid, but I have a craving for hay and sugar cubes every day.
So you’ve either got the vaccine as an option or you can go the bleach, suntanning your insides, hcq, horse dewormer route. It’s a really tough decision for a lot of this state.
Forest Gump said it best. “Stupid is as….”
Hmm... a vaccine that's fully approved OR medicine for horse parasites.
i'll go with the vet med!
Has anyone noticed that absolutely nothing under the sun other than a biological reprogramming at the cellular level to produce a spike protein antigen, or a direct injection thereof, has any effect on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19? What's up with NIH changing its position from "no" to "indifferent", recognizing that more studies are needed before they can give a hell-yeah recommendation, while the FDA continues to act like the "that thar stuff's just fer horses" geniuses on this site. It ruins their credibility. Zero objectivity. Exposes the FDA as a captured regulatory agency. And no, nobody should be consuming veterinary products. The naysayers will not discuss NIH change of position. Very telling.
@3:47PM
Pure comedy.
Why do we fake care about any human who swallows medicine intended for livestock? The entire comment section is a haven for people who lack common sense.
@4:33p- Your arrogance is ignoring the science behind the medical versions of what you sarcastically typed out to meet your personal and political choices. There are doctors who have successfully practiced the medical versions of most of your jabs.
@4:40p- Funny thing is that there are stupid people on both sides.
Folks are cheerleading the Pfizer approval by the FDA today, even though the data shows its effectiveness against the Delta variant is down to well below 50%. So, we've now shrunk from the 90's, down to the 40's, and the effectiveness will continue to shrink... especially since the vaccine is showing ZERO PERCENT effectiveness against the Lambda variant. What exactly are you folks celebrating??
If we could only get all those Democrat voters around the state and across the US to take the vaccine we’d be good to go. But unfortunately those Democrat voters don’t want it thanks to Democrats conducting experiments back in the day on them.
Shake the voodoo doll!
Diabeetus. Classic
Ask yourself why 2 idiots able to make so much noise ? Obviously a lot people have of crazy ideas when it comes to medicine. Has it come to this that once a backwoods cure hits Facebook the media feels like they need to protect us. We’re no longer buying products because we are the products being sold ! CIA just pulled up I gotta log off.
Horse meds and Fentanyl. White folks gonna have it bad for the next couple of years. SAD.
Sort of like bodybuilders pumping their bodies full of insulin over and over (hence the bubble guts)only to wind up premature heart attacks in their 30's and 40's. A long time ago they would get DMSO from the supply stores also.
It used to be apricot pits for the win...Laetrile the miracle cancer cure...
Versus walking co-morbidities such as yourself Melvin eating themselves to death?
Theca,
Fentanyl you say?
St. George says hay
I put a little dab behind the ears…drives my wife 😜
I ‘ve been smoking dope for 50 years and I ain’t never heard bout being this stupid, even this old stoner got the Jab.
I’ve taken vet meds before, but those dogs were prescribed phenobarbital and Valium. One just needs sufficient motivation to try just about anything.
@5:22
Misinformation alert.
Current mrna vaccines are NOT ineffective against lambda variant. And given lambda's (MUCH lower than delta) R0... the data shows it does not spread much at all... not even enough to maintain itself.
Sorry, but facts are stubborn things. Be part of the solution instead of the problem. Aren't you tired of MS being dead last in every category?
Success is a choice. So is failure.
Hoss and Tonto are mighty sad about that decision, KF.
I quit cold turkey, it gave me strange urges around mares.
Imagine a vaccine so safe that you have to be threatened to take it.
For a virus so deadly that you have to be tested to know you have it.
7:55. the 8100+ dead in our state alone agree with you..
@Better Than Ever-
You're so right. Facts ARE a stubborn thing. Why don't YOU try doing a little research on the topic of Lambda's resistance to the current vaccines?
Do you really believe that lying about the effectiveness of a vaccine will move MS up in the charts?
Success IS A CHOICE! Success involves a work ethic, personal responsibility, and accountability. MS is not at the bottom due to this vaccine. MS is at the bottom because we have a large population that is not contributing to the success of our state. We have a large population that chooses the easy road and doesn't follow through with their education and commitments to their families. We have a large population that has ZERO work ethic.
I'd love to be a part of the solution. The HONEST solution.
There is something else too. Mississippi is the fattest state in the nation. Period. This disease loves fat people and the accompanying illnesses and conditions.
Our leadership has done nothing at all to spread the message about this or encourage people to fortify their bodies.
"Imagine a vaccine so safe that you have to be threatened to take it.
For a virus so deadly that you have to be tested to know you have it."
You'd have to imagine it because both of those things are imaginary. As idiotic and foolish as the claims of "vaccine conspiracy" and "unsafe vaccine" nonsense are, the claims that the virus and COVID isn't real or doesn't cause serious illness, long term effects, and death is, at best, delusional.
This is rapidly heading toward a further mutation from the "original" SARS-CoV-2 that will require further vaccine development. If (or when) that happens, it will make the current "Delta" situation look like a minor one. If the US doesn't get the current situation under control soon, the "lockdowns" and restrictions of the past will seem like nothing, or, there won't be room in the morgues for all the bodies, much less rooms or staff to care for the sick and dying. I suspect that the Fed will put pressure on large corporations to require (and enforce) masks and vaccines to enter their premises, i.e., you will need a mask and vaccination proof to set foot in Walmart, Kroger, Lowe's/HD, fast food chains, etc.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know, you self-styled freedom fighters will all resist while downing whatever bullshit "cure de jour" and shouting "Come and Take It" and "...from my cold, dead hands!" That will work out well because you'll either be dead so sick that it'll be like, er, taking a gun from a baby. A big, stupid, sick or dead crybaby. But it won't be "jackbooted federal agents" taking your guns, since guns will still be perfectly legal, it will be your family openly selling your guns to other smarter individuals and using the money to pay for your medical care or funeral and paying their bills.
And speaking of imagining things, it is extremely unlikely that any of this will work out the way idiots imagine it will. It never does. It is a large part of the reason those folks are idiots.
@10:19
Everyone in my family has recovered from covid-19 without issue.
"Our leadership has done nothing at all to...encourage people to fortify their bodies", never once advising the public to do something as simple as taking Vitamin D3, even though "the science" has concluded that a majority of seriously-ill COVID patients are D3 deficient. The FDA has moved to make NAC by prescription only, a 57-year OTC dietary supplement that may be even more beneficial than D3! You aint seen nothing yet. Dick Durbin has inserted a provision in the infrastructure bill to make ALL dietary supplements by prescription only! Yes, the God-hating, human-hating Luciferian Occultists are trying to kill you.
Sciences of all types, along with medicine and other professions, often must distinguish correlation and causation. There is some interesting data in the hospitalization numbers being reported today for Mississippi. The number of hospitalizations with confirmed infections fell by a little over a hundred and the deaths were 111, however the both the number of patients in ICU and the number vented rose slightly. The most common situation is progression through the stages, ICU, intubation, etc., with the result being either improvement out of ICU, extubation, etc. or death, i.e., the deaths are more likely ICU/vented patients than non-critical patients. The numbers suggest - but do not prove or disprove - that in the most optimistic view possible, Mississippi is at least several days from yet another peak and downslope, but past history and the situation "on the ground" suggests that any such optimism is not warranted in this situation. Any nonsense about fake numbers, fake deaths, etc. ought to be seen as exactly that - nonsense - at this point even by marginally sensible people.
People need to consider that once you are sick, the vaccine ship has sailed. Your cruise will not be pleasant and you might go to the bottom. Even if you get a shot today of any type of vaccine you are at least a couple of weeks away from substantive benefit and with the two-shot version, about 6 weeks from full benefit. The best day to get vaccinated was the first day you were eligible, the second best day is today.
70 of the 111 were over a two month period. 40 were over 5 days. Daily 7 day average is in the low 20's, still far below the worst of the January surge and even the July 2020 surge.
Yeah, you can take the stuff but you better dang WELL take based on your weight. Or it will mess you up. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS.
As for myself, I spoke with a doctor I trust and got a prescription for ivermectin, hcq, and doxycycline. Nice to have on the shelf if I have symptoms. Perhaps it won't work. If so, I'll go to the hospital and sit in the tent in the parking lot.
If all fails, and you see that I've stopped posting, assume the worse. I will be sad if I am not ridiculed by the nattering Nancy's with medical degrees from facegram.
Amen to your 10:15 comment KF. Keep pushing health and maybe some will listen.
"70 of the 111 were over a two month period. 40 were over 5 days. Daily 7 day average is in the low 20's, still far below the worst of the January surge and even the July 2020 surge."
You are right about the 70 and I was wrong about the 111, which is based upon the widely-disseminated "reported as of..." numbers report (on the MDH website, local news outlets, etc.). I glanced at one of several reports and picked the wrong specific number. There are more up-to-date numbers and unfortunately, the premise remains the same: the numbers of deaths, hospitalizations, in ICU, intubations, etc. do not suggest a peak (at least as of this morning). It is possible that the peak will be shown to be today plus or minus a couple of days (it would be great if true) but all things considered, numbers, history, etc., that would be...very optimistic.
1:00:
Tell your doctor I'll bring in Rover tomorrow to be neutered. Also, I'm out of flea treatment for one of my cats. Anything your trusted source can recommend?
@3:34
You joke but haven’t lived until you’ve experienced horse oxycodone. Good shit mane.
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