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Nope, no zinc
zpak is just a brand name
ZITHROMAX is supplied for oral administration as film-coated, modified capsular shaped
tablets containing azithromycin dihydrate equivalent to either 250 mg or 500 mg azithromycin
and the following inactive ingredients: dibasic calcium phosphate anhydrous, pregelatinized
starch, sodium croscarmellose, magnesium stearate, sodium lauryl sulfate, hypromellose, lactose,
titanium dioxide, triacetin and D&C Red #30 aluminum lake.
That's fine but I was answering an Anon
Who wrongly assumed that Zpak or Zithromycin meant there was Zinc in the antibiotic. There is no zinc.
However, I believe the NY doctor that did a clinical trial with his patients did give them HCQ, AZ and some form of Zinc. I believe that Zinc citrate and Zinc gluconate are more bioavailable, but if you are treating a person who has SARS-CoV-2 you should check ALL the details yourself
Here on QResearch we are all assholes trying to kill you and your family. So if you take advice from any of us without doing your own research, then you are a MORON who deserves to die. After all, Who do you trust?.
Sometimes toughlove is called for.
It does fuck-all
My advice is to drink a bottle of arsenic.
Effect of zinc on the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children: a randomized controlled trial.
Zinc Against Plasmodium Study Group.
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Zinc supplementation in young children has been associated with reductions in the incidence and severity of diarrheal diseases, acute respiratory infections, and malaria.
OBJECTIVE:
The objective was to evaluate the potential role of zinc as an adjunct in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated falciparum malaria; a multicenter, double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial was undertaken.
DESIGN:
Children (n = 1087) aged 6 mo to 5 y were enrolled at sites in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Children with fever and >or=2000 asexual forms of Plasmodium falciparum/ micro L in a thick blood smear received chloroquine and were randomly assigned to receive zinc (20 mg/d for infants, 40 mg/d for older children) or placebo for 4 d.
RESULTS:
There was no effect of zinc on the median time to reduction of fever (zinc group: 24.2 h; placebo group: 24.0 h; P = 0.37), a >or=75% reduction in parasitemia from baseline in the first 72 h in 73.4% of the zinc group and in 77.6% of the placebo group (P = 0.11), and no significant change in hemoglobin concentration during the 3-d period of hospitalization and the 4 wk of follow-up. Mean plasma zinc concentrations were low in all children at baseline (zinc group: 8.54 +/- 3.93 micro mol/L; placebo group: 8.34 +/- 3.25 micro mol/L), but children who received zinc supplementation had higher plasma zinc concentrations at 72 h than did those who received placebo (10.95 +/- 3.63 compared with 10.16 +/- 3.25 micro mol/L, P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION:
Zinc does not appear to provide a beneficial effect in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated falciparum malaria in preschool children.
Quinine is still used to treat malaria today, although doctors typically reserve it for cases when the pathogen responsible for the disease displays resistance to newer drugs. However, you'd have to drink almost 20 liters of today's dilute tonic water daily to achieve the daily dose typically prescribed for malaria.
That may come as bad news for anyone hoping to cure the deadly infection with a nightly tippling session, but it should come as a relief to the rest of us, because quinine comes with side effects.
Side effects so serious, in fact, they were the reason the Food and Drug Administration banned doctors in 2010 from prescribing the drug to treat nighttime leg cramps, a frequent off-label usage. The most serious of the common side effects is thrombocytopenia, a drop in the blood's platelet count that can lead to internal and external bleeding, as well as a related condition that can cause permanent kidney damage. Worse, these and other side effects occur to some degree in up to one in 25 patients treated with medicinal doses of quinine.
You are a fucking asshole who can't get past the first two scientific papers that you stumbled across. There are probably hundreds of papers about the quinine derivatives ( a dozen or more) and SARS-CoV going all the way back to 2005 and probably before. They have been trialed with a dozen different antibiotics and Erithromycin used to be favored until someone jiggled a few atoms and made the molecule called Azithromycin. And Zinc is often already sufficient in a patient's body. Many people take daily multivitamins. And there are other metals which can help the Quinine drugs work against viruses.
It's a big complex picture which is why the people who know, are always cautious and want to see multiple clinical trials by different people before advising a specific treatment.
Also, an individual physician has more flexibility than public figures because he knows the patient's situation intimately, he can increase or reduce doseage based on observing the patient after trying a drug.
So fuck right off with your fake doctor act.
This is not an advice board. It is a place to share research.