- According to our information, a 42-year-old man was admitted to the Jacques Cartier hospital in heart distress, after taking chloroquine for self-medication.
- Tested positive for Covid-19, this man had no serious symptoms but had chosen to treat himself.
- Intubated and ventilated in the intensive care unit, he was, Thursday evening, in "critical but stable condition".
When the supposed remedy is worse than the disease. According to our information, a 42-year-old man was admitted to intensive care at the Jacques Cartier private hospital in Massy (Essonne), after taking chloroquine. Tested positive for the coronavirus but presenting no serious symptoms, this man had chosen to treat himself by taking self-medication the substance which is now debated in the scientific community. Thursday evening, he was "stabilized" but still "in critical condition".
“He arrived at the ventricular fibrillation emergency room. Almost in cardiac arrest, says François Auquière, the director of the hospital. He was intubated, ventilated and admitted to intensive care. If I am talking about it today, it is to alert people to the dangers of chloroquine. It is not a harmless drug. It should not be taken without the advice of a doctor! "
"It's the first thing patients ask for"
Originally used to fight against malaria, chloroquine (or its derivative hydroxychloroquine) is currently causing controversy in the context of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Herald of this treatment, Marseille professor Didier Raoult assures that this treatment is effective as soon as the first symptoms of Covid-19 appear. But it also has side effects and can lead to heart problems.
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- FABIENNE (@fabiennelabarou) April 9, 2020On April 1, the director of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Health Agency indicated that ten patients had to be admitted to intensive care after taking chloroquine for self-medication.
"The media impact of chloroquine is pretty crazy," says Bertrand Devaux, head of the Covid-19 unit at the CHU Montereau-Fault-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne). The first thing patients ask when they arrive here for suspected coronavirus is if they are going to have it. And when they are unconscious, it is their family who demands! We prescribe a little according to strict criteria. Because, we are absolutely not certain for the moment of the benefits of the molecule. But absolutely some of the risks it poses to patients… ”
Macron's visit to Raoult but no "recognition"
Thursday, Emmanuel Macron visited Professor Didier Raoult, who presented him with the latest study from his services which confirms, according to him, the effectiveness of chloroquine in combating Covid-19. But the Elysée insisted on the fact that this meeting did not present a "recognition" of the controversial professor's method.
As for the patient admitted to the Jacques Cartier hospital in Massy, "everything will obviously be done to try to get him out of this situation", continues François Auquière. Even if there is no shortage of work for caregivers overwhelmed by patients with coronavirus.
Contacted by 20 Minutes , the Ile-de-France regional health agency was unable to specify whether other cases of chloroquine contamination after self-medication had been reported in recent days.
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