Taking chloroquine is not safe, far from it. Considered by some specialists, starting with Professor Didier Raoult, as a treatment with Covid-19, taking it can lead to heart rhythm disorders as well as severe arrhythmias. This Monday, the regional health agency (ARS) of New-Aquitaine sounded the alarm, after having knowledge of cases of serious side effects.
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"Potentially very serious side effects"
"It is an extremely important warning element," hammered an ARS member at the microphone of Europe 1. "It is our duty to tell the population that this product, taken independently of any [medical] supervision, is likely to cause potentially very serious, even fatal, side effects. We have been informed by hospitals of a few cases serious heart rhythm disturbances related to self-medication. "
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Many people with heart conditions "
When "we see a patient arrive with a Covid-19 infection and he makes a torsade de point [relatively rare heart rhythm disorder during which the heart is likely to stop, note] most of the time we think drug-related ". A suspicion that a series of questions to the patients concerned confirmed. "They finished in the emergency room and in a cardiology department, things have gone well so far, and that is good," explains the doctor. "But there may be less happy outcomes, which don't necessarily reach the hospital."