University of KZN professor says Ivermectin has a positive impact on COVID patients
The debate over the use of Ivermectin is continuing. A healthcare researcher said that COVID-19 vaccines were the only way to get us out of the pandemic, but anti-parasitic drug ivermectin can help sick patients.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Professor Colleen Aldous said that despite some scientists saying that there was lack of evidence on the drug’s efficacy to treat the disease, it did hold clinical benefits.
Regulatory body, South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), has reiterated that there was insufficient data at present that supported the drug’s use in the management and treatment of COVID-19.
It’s being argued that anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is not a silver bullet but could be part of a solution to ease patients’ suffering.
Geneticist and clinical researcher, Professor Colleen Aldous, said that she had scrutinized more than 170 scientific papers, which found that the drug does had a positive impact.
“As far as I’m concerned and from what I’m hearing is happening at my colleagues’ clinic where they’re using it, it certainly is having an impact. What is lacking is a large randomized control trial that will definitively provide the final proof.”
A Gauteng mother said that she’s been using the anti-parasitic drug for the past seven months and had not contracted COVID-19.
“I went ot test last week for antibodies and I thought I might have had and not known about it and was asymptomatic but they didn’t detect any antibodies – not recently, not in the last six months, not ever.”
Sahpra said that its Ivermectin-controlled compassionate use programme was still in place as it minimized the risk of illicit and counterfeit products being sold to the unsuspecting public.
It said that any medical practitioner prescribing ivermectin to patients should be in possession of a Section 21 authorization for specific patients only.
-EWN
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