Doxycycline in Corona : Just a Myth or a Financial Agenda?

in BDCommunity4 years ago

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

-Albert Einstein


Everyday afternoon, me and my mom have lunch together. My dad usually has his lunch earlier and is at work at our lunch time. So as everyday, when I went for lunch, my mom said to me, your uncle (her brother) is really sick. You should talk to him. I knew he had fever for a 3-4 days. I asked mom what happened, and she said she isn't sure. Just that my dad had called her earlier and said uncle is very sick. She was scared and her face was pale, she was almost sure uncle was dying from the Coronavirus!

I told her to relax and called uncle immediately. So what I gathered is, besides having fever, he has been having severe vomiting and nausea for a couple of days, to the extent that he is afraid to eat anything. On further exploring his history, he revealed he has started taking Doxycycline for the last few days as someone said this will cure him in case he has coronavirus! No, that someone was not a doctor!

Yes, two of the recognized side effects of doxycycline are nausea and vomiting. But I'm not going to go further into this anymore, it's just plain stupid and anyone who keeps any idea of what's happening knows doxycycline is NOT a drug that will cure Coronavirus. In fact I'm extremely pissed to talk medical details about this.

But what I found interesting from this is,

  • Number 1, the belief people has that Doxycycline is actually the drug for coronavirus. Where did this belief come from?

  • Number 2, people are so scared of the coronavirus that they don't even wait for taking the test. Any doubt in their mind that they may have been infected by the SARS-CoV 2, they're ready to take action, albeit, an extremely stupid and futile one.

  • Number 3, Doxycycline, a drug that had an extremely limited and very specific use case in our daily clinical practice, has now become the new Napa (paracetamol)! Anyone who is having fever is taking Doxy, just in case! Just in case what?! Whose pockets are getting heavier, any guesses? I'll give you a hint! I know a few Representatives of pharmaceutical companies, who has degrees in business or commerce, sending mass text messages to people with the doses they are supposed to take Doxycycline (and now Remdisivir, LMAO) for curing coronavirus! Alas, only if I knew a business degree would make me a doctor!
    For my readers outside Bangladesh, Napa is a drug that people here take as often as their morning tea!


So is Doxycycline merely a Myth?


I don't believe a Myth just arises out of thin air. At least not the medical myths. I believe there are much larger agendas at play here. Agendas designed to capitalize on peoples' fears about certain diseases, CoViD 19 pandemic right now for example. It just takes one small nudge in the right direction to instill the idea in people that Drug X miiiiight just work. No need for any further evidence or anything. Just the inception of the idea that it might work is enough and we could have hundreds of actually qualified people, aka doctors to tell you that this is in fact false, but people will continue to believe Pharmaceutical Representatives, who has nowhere the knowledge of a doctor on disease treatment. I mean this should be just commonsense, no? That doctors are supposed to tell you what drugs work, nor pharma reps! But alas, that's the world we live in.

What should have been the logical course of action has no further impact on people once the inception has happened. Because the fear is too strong and they will go to all lengths and beyond to just deny the fearful truth that nothing is actually going to cure it. Or maybe just cling on to any bit of hope, however misplaced that may be, that a certain drug miiiight just work!

End result : Financial agenda of pharmaceutical companies served!

This is the world we live in, where a potentially world destroying pandemic is a business opportunity.

Takes us back to the quote by Albert Einstein,

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.



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doxy and azithro do have some effects on covid patients tho. its only after theyve teseted positive. but these anti biotics are so powerful, they kinda affect any parasitical disease i think. TBH i do not have any knowledge on this matter. just some articles here and there. WHO doesnt endorse the usage of these meds tho.

Doxy does have anti parisite action. But it's not really labelled as an anti parisitic drug.

Strictly speaking, Doxy and azithro are antibiotics. Antibiotics by definition are drugs that work against bacteria. Corona is a virus. First point.

Secondly, doxyxycline works by inhibiting something called Ribosomes. Humans also have ribosomes, but doxy targets more specifically eukaryotic ribosomes, the type present in bacteria. Funny thing is, viruses do not have ribosomes. Same logic for azithro, whic works specifically against the 50s subunit of ribosomes. But viruses don't have ribosomes to begin with.

Thirdly, The only justification of using any antibiotic in a viral disease is to prevent development of secondary bacterial pneumonia. Neither doxy or azithro is our first choice for that. We'll choose Co-amoxiclav or ceftriaxone.

Fourth. Even if we want to throw ALL logic away and still wanna justify use of doxy and azithro, we'll need to have significant statistical evidence. There's none. The online articles are mostly propaganda.

Fifth. You must have heard of Hydroxychloroquine, the anti malarial drug, right? You see how I don't hate this one as much, despite this having no statistical evidence whatsoever! The reason being, this one, unlike doxy and azithro has a proposed mechanism of action that IN THEORY could work agains coronavirus. HCQ is known to increase zinc uptake into cells. Zinc and in lab specimens, zinc can act on an enzyme that is involved in the first step of the replication of the SARS CoV 2 virus. So this theory has some logic to it, but no scientific evidence as of yet. This one is more like "মন্দের ভালো" if you may. But i still can not officially prescribe this, as there's no scientific evidence. Large hospitals with permissions to experiment might though.

I hope this clears things up :)

 4 years ago (edited) 

So the anti biotics are bullshits, pardon my language. But what the fuck is wrong with our health ministry then! What a bunch of freaking idiots.. Holy mother of jesus.. You are a doctor and you know all this, then they know it too.. So its all just some capitalist bullshit to get money out of suffering patients! Is that really what this is?

Morons everywhere, people with authority just scamming us right and left.. What the hell.. You remeber me being sick for a couple of days some weeks back? All of my symptoms almost matched with covid. So to be safe, a called 16263 or a similar number that they keeps repeating at the very beginning of a phone call nowadays.. So after almost half an hour, i was connected to a so called doctor or medihelper i guess.. She told me to buy 7 different meds, both azithro and doxy too. I didnt take those antibiotics but what the hell.. So if i took them, it wouldve been in vain!! Im so angry and mortified at the same time right now.. What a bunch of morons..

She told me to take one 18mg dose of ivermectin.. So that too is a blank? What age are we living in? So theyll hand me cyanide now someday i guess.

Ivermectin is a controversial topic, there are a few well known medical journals that seems to claim there's potential benefit.

Talking about the issue of govt and how much do they know. Our health minister thought ventilators are the "দেওয়ালের চারকোণা ফুটো," What else do we expect him to know about Covid, antibiotics and all.

In the end, these are desperate times and a lot of these information is being floated around prematurely. We didn’t have covid long enough to have sufficient evidence, but it has instilled such strong fears among all of us, we're almost on the verge of expecting a স্বপ্নে পাওয়া ওষুধ to work. In an ideal scenario, some of the information being published would have never seen light with such lack of evidence. But then again, desperate times and all that.

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I hope your uncle gets better @simplylife

Thanks Jerry.

It's been a while, how have you been? Hope everything is going well at your end 😊

Basically bored out of my wits, what little I had to begin with.
Still, I am above ground and breathing.

I can understand mate. Lockdown getting to everyone's nerves!

In bengali we are called 'hojoge banggali' this post also indicate our that habit. These things are very common to us. Even in my family sometimes i see something like these.

Hope for the fast recovery of your uncle.

hojoge banggali

The perfect term!

Hi @simplifylife, your post has been upvoted by @bdcommunity courtesy of @rem-steem!


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