“I am not a horse or a cow” .. an American warning of a veterinary drug to treat the crown

Some patients infected with the Corona virus seek non-traditional, unlicensed or licensed treatments and have even taken medicines intended for animals.

And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against this, noting that it usually carefully evaluates the scientific data of a drug to make sure it is safe and effective for a particular use, and then decides on it. ‘approve or not. . And using any COVID-19 treatment that is not approved or licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, unless it is part of a clinical trial, can cause serious harm.

There appears to be growing interest in a drug called ivermectin to treat humans with COVID-19. Ivermectin is often used in the United States to treat or prevent parasites in animals. The FDA has received several reports of patients requiring medical support who were hospitalized after self-treatment with ivermectin for horses.

And the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned on Saturday against taking the drug to treat or prevent Covid-19 disease, which is caused by the Corona virus.

The warning came a day after the Mississippi State Department of Health issued a similar statement in response to reports that a growing number of people in the state were using the drug to prevent infection with Covid, according to the New York Times.

And the National Institutes of Health previously reported last February that most studies related to ivermectin and the virus “contain incomplete information and significant methodological limitations,” including the results of the studies that motivated its contribution, which are mostly unclear.

Ivermectin, which is mainly used to treat parasitic worms, has been widely promoted as a potential treatment for Corona virus, but recent studies have shown that its effectiveness is very low and has not been approved.

In turn, the Food and Drug Administration posted a tweet on Twitter, in which it read: “You are not a horse, you are not a cow … Stop.”

The administration said it had received several reports from people who “needed medical support and were taken to hospital after self-treatment with ivermectin,” noting that “taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm “.