Hydroxychloroquine as marketed in Europe
He experienced several patients that did not show any typical symptoms of pneumonia but nevertheless they were extremely breathless (dyspnoeic) and cyanotic (blue skin). "They were not Covid-19 patients; they looked like passengers of an airplane at high-altitude losing pressure."
My warning follows my following observations:
Chloroquine and high-dose intravenous vitamin-C are known to damage the function of erythrocytes in case of a lack of Glucose-6-phosphat-Dehydrogenase (Favism), which is the most frequent enzyme-defect worldwide.
It is inherited and the responsible genes are located on the X-chromosome.
As women have two X-chromosomes, one of them might be ok and therefore they are less vulnerable.
Men only have one X-chromosome and are endangered if this carries the defect.
Most of the carriers of this genetic defect are found in countries where malaria is or used to be endemic.
This is why citizens with ancestors from such regions are at risk to suffer from a lack of oxygen and dyspnoea when taking chloroquine derivatives or high-dose intravenous vitamin-C.
It is likely that this effect is more frequent in countries with higher prevalence of favism and in regions with many migrants from those countries.
Therefore I urge the responsible agencies to examine this problem and to provide all medical units with adequate information.
My sense is that different reactions are occurring in ICUs - perhaps according to people's immune responses. We live in the era of attacked, corrupted and undermined immune systems BY medical and other chemicals and exposures.
However I paste a comment from someone that felt plausible and worthy of considering:
shirley3349: (On Malcolm Kendrick's blog).
People with fevers are often peripherally shut down. Their skin goes cold and slightly blue, because the blood has been redirected to their major organs to keep them working properly under the strain. If you take their peripheral temperature, it may be well below normal while the central temperature remains very high. Violent shivering often ensues, known as a rigor.This causes the central temperature to rise still higher, often to dangerous levels. But if one physically cools the patient using fans or warm water, one has to be very careful not to make the situation worse by increasing the peripheral shut down. We only did this occasionally thirty years ago and I think it is done even less now. Drugs are used instead to bring the temperature down by manipulating the control centre in the brain. If this is successful, the patient sweats heavily to bring the temperature down and the peripheral circulation and the patient’s colour is restored to near normal. But when the effect of the drugs wears off, whole cycle may repeat itself many times until the infection is overcome.This may explain the paradox. The oxygen saturation of the blood supplying the major organs in this situation is far nearer to normal than that measured by the monitor, which is usually clipped to a finger. The peripheral circulation has a poor blood flow which gets depleted of oxygen quickly hence the very low reading. An accurate central reading can only be obtained by sampling blood from a central arterial line.
The brain must be getting enough oxygen if the patient is fully conscious. The advice when working with seriously ill patients was always: ‘watch the patient, not the monitor.’
I can only explain the response of the medical staff by the fact that they are not used to caring with patients with very high fevers with peripheral shutdown in the Intensive care ward.
The backstory I read here is of a loss of clinical expertise - (and nursing as a relational context for healing) - to drug and equipment wielding technicians - who are not trained with faith in life but to step in and take over in suppressing fever and a lot else as a way of operating 'standard of care'.
Clinical acuity and expertise is not part of doctor's training.
I predict that for the poor, doctors will be soon replaced by robotic services.
Flattening the curve will make two distinct branches of human beings.
Those who flatten, and those not allowed to rise.
The definers of infection and the managed viruses.
Love heals
I am not addressing the self imaged body here but the split mind of victim and victimiser.