The Oregon Poison Center has been reporting a pronounced spike in ivermectin poisoning cases this summer, and some of those cases were particularly serious, sending two people to the ICU.
Source: Oregon Health and Science News
Five Oregonians were recently hospitalized because they consumed a potent antiparasitic drug despite there being no clinical data supporting its use for COVID-19. The Oregon Poison Center strongly recommends the public only use scientifically proven and FDA-approved methods to combat the novel coronavirus.
The Oregon Poison Center has managed 25 cases involving Oregonians intentionally misusing ivermectin to treat or prevent COVID-19 between Aug. 1 and Sept. 14. Five of those cases involved hospitalization, and two people were so severely ill that they had to be admitted to an intensive care unit. Although the Oregon Poison Center also serves Alaska and Guam, the vast majority of ivermectin cases it has managed this year have come from Oregon.
“COVID-19 is a devastating disease and can be very frightening, but the public does not need to use -- nor should it use -- unproven and potentially dangerous drugs to fight it,” said Robert Hendrickson, M.D., medical director of the Oregon Poison Center at Oregon Health & Science University and professor of emergency medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine.
5 hospitalized in Oregon from the use of Ivermectin. 🙊https://t.co/vdi2gBupDK
— Girl Conundrum 💙🌊#VaxMeAgain!💉 (@girlconundrum) September 17, 2021
