its only been tested and approved as an anti-parasitic for humans via oral ingestion
Ooh, I get to do an ACKSHUALLY here. They do have it for topical treatments too, like for rosacea.
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago… somewhat ironically, it is at least barely, slightly plausible that ivermectin could have taken out the brain worm…
it is an actual anti-parasitic, but uh… its only been tested and approved as an anti-parasitic for humans via oral ingestion…
… but it is intravenously administered to cows and pigs as an anti-parasitic.
So… IV ivermectin in a human could potentially work, but … good luck figuring out the right dosage, and hopefully human bio chemistry and blood brain barrier just function identically as within pigs and cows.
I am not a medical expert, but I suspect that latter part just maybe might not be a great assumption.
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Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Generally if it’s effective orally, it’ll be effective intravenously, so I would expect it to work…the issue with dosage is more likely to be in the opposite direction, with significant side effects due to overdosing.
I suppose if you overdose hard enough, it would cure COVID in addition to the brain worm
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yes, I wasn’t clear enough about it, but that is what I would be worried about, lol.
Its… probably not just as simple as a direct proportion between cow weight:cow cow dose to human weight:human dose… as … humans are not cows.
I remember reading hermancainaward posts about idiots who did actually take waaay too much oral (or in some cases, suppository…) ivermectin…
So now they’re on a ventilator from the covid, and also uncontrollably shitting themselves and massively dehydrated.
Can’t say I remember a case of ivermectin OD leading to CNS shutdown… but yeah.
Covid skeptic/deniers were and still are astoundingly, lethally, suicidally stupid.