“Tonic water contains no more than 83 mg of quinine per liter,” according to the FDA. I haven’t found any tonic water brands that say how close they come to that threshold, but 3 2L bottles of tonic water per day could keep you well-hydrated *and* protected.
From what I can google, typical dosage of quinine for malaria would be at least 500mg every 8 hours. If you drink 6 liters of tonic water every 8 hours you’ll have more to worry about than coronavirus. What I don’t understand is why they haven’t started treating Covid with chloroquine yet—it’s cheap and plentiful and has minimal side effects. Are desperate doctors in overwhelmed ICUs really holding off just because it would be off-label?
“Tonic water contains no more than 83 mg of quinine per liter,” according to the FDA. I haven’t found any tonic water brands that say how close they come to that threshold, but 3 2L bottles of tonic water per day could keep you well-hydrated *and* protected.
From what I can google, typical dosage of quinine for malaria would be at least 500mg every 8 hours. If you drink 6 liters of tonic water every 8 hours you’ll have more to worry about than coronavirus. What I don’t understand is why they haven’t started treating Covid with chloroquine yet—it’s cheap and plentiful and has minimal side effects. Are desperate doctors in overwhelmed ICUs really holding off just because it would be off-label?