Dr Antonio Camargo - I should have died from coronavirus but ivermectin saved me

[-] fieldsofcoral | 1 points | Jun 02 2020 13:21:29

Dr. Antonio Camargo, a medical oncologist, tells Con Nuestro Peru his own experience after falling ill with the coronavirus COVID-19 and that of his patients. All of them defeated this disease with ivermectin.

—There are voices that discourage the use of ivermectin against the coronavirus COVID-19, but in other countries there are studies in patients that have been successful, what would be the problem?

—The most important thing in managing ivermectin is calculating the appropriate doses. There is an Australian study, the first, which shows that ivermectin in adequate doses in vitro eliminated the coronavirus COVID-19 completely. The lethal dose for the coronavirus is 2 micromoles, that is, in order to eliminate the virus. From there comes the spread of ivermectin for this disease.

In this Australian study it is seen how in 48 hours with 2 micromoles the coronavirus is completely eliminated in infected cells. It was an article from approximately April 3 of this year. That day I began to consider the possibility of using ivermectin here in patients with coronavirus, and this was pointed out in an interview on Channel 9, apart from prophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine in doses of 400mg once a week.

"How did you get to an effective dose?"

From there I began to investigate what could be the appropriate dose to eliminate the coronavirus and I found quite interesting articles where it was calculated in a theoretical way that the usual suggested dose of 150 to 200 micrograms per kilo of weight to eliminate filaria was insufficient. 35 to 40 times more doses than this to eliminate the coronavirus, a much higher dose.

Then I started to investigate what the maximum dose would be and found ivermectin tolerability studies in healthy subjects where doses of 60mg, 90mg, 120mg, and even 400mg had been reached with a fairly acceptable tolerance, a fairly good toxicological profile, and the Mydriasis was the most common reaction (*), it is an extremely safe product.

I can affirm with absolute certainty that ivermectin is the most powerful coronicidal agent that I am at least aware of, and is the noblest drug for eliminating the virus. I ventured to start a small research study with coronavirus patients, roughly since mid-April, with higher doses of ivermectin than suggested for filaria. I started with 30mg and climbed up to 60mg per day, for three to five days. At these much higher doses, not the droplet per pound of weight, but 180 drops on average, I began to see that patients responded very quickly, especially in patients who had started treatment early.

—You contracted the disease and was cured with ivermectin, could you tell us about your experience?

—I became infected in my work activities, caring for cancer patients. A patient who sought help and had a good time in our center infected two workers and the cleaning worker infected me. The diagnosis of my infection was made on May 8 or 9. He had a terribly high viral load, to make a kind of surveillance pattern. I have a molecular biology laboratory and I remember that the biologist told me that my viral load was very high.

Until then I felt nothing, just a dry throat, no cough or general discomfort or fever, but I knew that a "tsunami" was coming on me. There I decided to try on myself what I was testing on other patients. I immediately took 60mg per day of ivermectin, accompanying with hydroxychloroquine: 200mg in the morning and 200mg at night, plus 200mg of zinc salts per day, which are high doses.

That was the coronicide treatment. After 48 hours I had a control with PCR, a molecular test to control my viral load and there was no viral load in my pharynx, there were no viruses.

-Awesome.

—Logically, the virus had already hit me, it was already in my lung, it had caused some immunological damage and a very hard symptomatology, generalized weakness, I started to desaturate, but not much, I reached 92 to 93 desaturation. He should have died from the initial high viral load because it ensured everything is a terrible thing. I accompanied with a moderate dose of vitamin C, I have one that I use a lot in cancer patients, 12.5g of intravenous vitamin C per day for ten days, without fear.

The protocol of the Minsa of one drop per kilo of weight is insufficient. I went through the inflammatory phase, which was 7, 8, quite well. On the 8th they did a CT scan and the lesions had started to subside, they were lesions at the base of the lung, affected by 10%. The virus had hit me very hard, so I was bruised and everything knew that I had overcome the problem. The viral load was brutal initially and that should have killed me if I hadn't done that fast. Vitamin C helped me a lot.

At the end of the treatment on day 9 to 11, I used about 2 to 3 pulses of methylprednisolone, about 500mg in total in 3 days, and that helped me, my low-grade fever disappeared, but the most impressive thing was seeing how The virus was "cleared" within 48 hours.

"Were you able to treat other patients with ivermectin?"

—I was initially working with coronavirus, about eight patients, with ivermectin in high doses. I treated them before I got sick. Absolutely all the patients, who had mild to moderate disease, came out very quickly, in 5 to 6 days they showed a significant clinical improvement, there was no progress in oxygen desaturation. In them I did not have a molecular control except in 2 people. One of them is a very dear colleague and at 48 hours, the molecular control showed zero viral load in his throat. He recovered much faster because he had a lower viral load than I had. The other case was my wife, whom I infected. She had the same protocol and in 48 she did not have an absolute disappearance of the virus but a logarithmic decrease that I have in images. There are three cases with a confirmed molecular test.

—How do you define the action of ivermectin?

—I can affirm with absolute certainty that ivermectin is the most powerful coronicidal agent that I am at least aware of, and it is the most noble drug to eliminate the virus. Its toxicity is very low or null at high doses. High doses are about 60mg per day. I haven't scaled up to 90mg, but I don't think it's necessary as of yet. The most common side effect is visual disturbances or perhaps the patient may develop a feeling of nausea. There is no liver, kidney or neurological toxicity. What is described in the work of León Cali, from Australia and his group. There one achieves more or less 50% to 60% of that famous IC-50 of 2 micromoles, with that it is more than enough to eliminate the virus completely and it is fast.

—Why are there doctors who question the use of ivermectin —Whoever questions the effectiveness of ivermectin or is a person who lacks scientific knowledge or must have another type of thought or interest and is not well informed and has not experienced really with the drug.

Ivermectin is a wonderful drug, wonderful! It can be accompanied with hydroxychloroquine, which is another extraordinary drug in this, which has made a terrible dirty war. This combination is great, for safety I always add hydroxychloroquine and zinc supplement, more than anything else on the recommendation of Dr. Selenco.

My recommendations will always be high doses, about 60mg of ivermectin, from 3 to 5 days, it can be more days. When the patient progresses well, the dose can be lowered in half from the fifth day, to 30 mg until 7 or 8 days later, and with that if one started early, the patient will be saved.

After 48 hours I had a control with PCR, a molecular test to control my viral load and there was no viral load in my pharynx, there were no viruses. When this virus hits it deregulates the immune system, that's why you have to work fast from the beginning, that's the secret.

Now I feel quite recovered. This virus should have killed me, because with the viral load I had, I was practically doomed. If I had not used ivermectin at that dose and all the support I added, at this time we would not be in this interview.

Would it be necessary for the Minsa to review its dosage to avoid losing lives?

—Indeed, they began to recommend one drop per kilogram of weight and that really is very little, much higher doses are needed. In order to eliminate the virus, doses that are over 200mg of ivermectin are needed, since it tends to accumulate in the body, it is well preserved, therefore, it must be safe doses of 60mg, flat doses. I would even recommend investigating higher doses, 90mg for 2 to 3 days in those more severe patients, but that would be for future studies.

The protocol of the Minsa of one drop per kilo of weight is insufficient. There are patients who report answers, but a lot of opportunities are being missed to be able to make the drug work in a much better way. The problem is that you are afraid of the doses, because no one had ever administered such a high dose, so frequently. But in the patients that I have tried, which have been 7, 8, they recovered. I fell ill and could not continue seeing patients, if not, I would have had a larger data.

But a dose of 60mg per day is very safe and highly effective.

I must mention that I was attacked by Facebook, it has been terrible, but it has been gratifying, this is what helped me save myself. It is a very important and very important subject in these difficult times, because the infection is happening en masse and people are dying due to the ignorance of the doctors, many refuse to give ivermectin treatment demanding evidence. I don't know what more evidence they are looking for at times when one needs to urgently treat, needs to seek treatment, and this is what is called war medicine.

(*) Dilation of the pupil