Admin_NHT Staff asked 6 years ago Hydroxychloroquine is a 4-aminoquinoline having molecular formula C18H26CIN3O. Its molecular weight is 335.9g/mol. Oxichloroquine, Oxycholorochin is another name for hydroxychloroquine. It acts as an immunosuppressive, antiautophagy, and antimalarial agent. Nowadays scientist proves that hydroxychloroquine is effective in the treatment of COVID 19. Hydroxychloroquine is helpful to break the overactive immune system. It helps to suppress the ability of viruses to inter-human body cells. An outbreak of COVID 19 in China uses hydroxychloroquine to treat the patient and it is helpful to treat more than 100 patients. It needs to be various doses for the treatment. China claimed than cough, pneumonia, and fever conditions are get improved by the use of hydroxychloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine drug safety profile is better than other medicine. The French Ministry of Health started a clinical trial for the hydroxychloroquine on the treatment of COVID 19.
- Dosage: – For the treatment of COVID 19 hydroxychloroquine is used in different dosages for the different patient but serum concentration is maintained as 0.46ug/ml± 0.2(n=20).
- Toxicity: – Overdose of Hydroxychloroquine may show headache, drowsiness, visual disturbances, cardiovascular collapse, convulsions, and hypokalemia, rhythm, and conduction disorders including QT prolongation, ventricular tachycardia, and ventricular fibrillation.