Therapist, clinical pharmacologist Andrei Kondrakhin in a conversation with “ribbon.ru” made that the use of medication from alcoholism in the fight against COVID-19 can be fraught with side effects.
Previously, scientists of the Harvard Medical School and the Boston Children’s Hospital stated that the drug from alcoholism disulfiram showed effectiveness against COVID-19. According to observations, in the treated patient’s drug, the risk of covid-19 was 34 percent lower, as well as none of them died of coronavirus infection.
The fact that the drug is effective in the fight against COVID-19 is not more than a hypothesis that requires further study and clinical trials, but 34 percent is not a very high indicator, usually 80 percent is required for a means or at least 65- 70, remarked clinical pharmacologist.
»There may be side effects on alcohol in the body. Most of the drugs we process hands on the basis of alcohol, respectively, alcohol pairs. Such substances like Corvalol, Valokordin, Valerian Alcohol-containing. Is it possible to apply? Most likely, No, so I’m still wary of this drug, “Kondrakhin told, but positively appreciated the movements in the treatment of new coronavirus infection.