CO-ADMINISTRATION OF ANTIMALARIAL AGENT WITH VITAMIN C OR BLOOD TONIC IS WRONG
This is to notify we steemians on co-administering ACT antimalarial agents such as Artemether+Lumefantrine antimalarial e.g Lonart DS, Coartem etc with Vitamin c (ascorbic acid) especially and blood tonic.
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Please steemians you need to wait till you are done with your treatment for compliance reasons before taking any form of Vitamin C in tablets or fruits rich in Vitamin C.
The course of duration for ACTs is usually 3 days, hence it is advised you take your Vitamin C tabs after 3days.
WHY YOUR ANTIMALARIAL DRUG (ACTs) DON'T WORK
The erythrocytes (red blood cells) are composed of elements with HAEMOGLOBIN been its basic unit, haemoglobin is made up of HAEM( this is rich in iron) and GLOBIN.
Plasmodium falciparum i.e the malaria parasite makes use of iron contained in the heme part of the haemoglobin, this is a mechanism the malaria parasites use to multiply.
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After destroying and breaking down the erythrocytes it happens that this parasites are targeting the heme component. This parasites succeed in infecting as many red blood cells as possible, the breaking down of RBCs causes anemia( Anemia is a condition caused as a result of depleted RBCs in the blood in this case caused by malaria parasites).
Taking blood tonics while treating malaria would create more room for more parasites to exist as the heme(iron) present in most blood tonics taken to avert anemia after destroying the malaria parasites with ACTs might not be effective, the presence of iron in the body system would thus enhance the parasites survival in the blood.
Artemisinin derivatives such as Artemether are made up of an endoperoxide ring which are activated by the HAEM-IRON in the blood which catalyzes their cleavage or breakage to form free radicals aka oxidants.
Vitamin C is an ANTI-oxidant and thus acts as an anti oxidant which means it naturally attacks and inhibits the progression of free radicals or oxidants in the body or antagonizes the effects of oxidative derivatives induced by the ACTs(Artemisinin Combination Therapy)
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Taking Vitamin C with your drug would therefore lead to the destruction of those free radicals that are supposed to kill the malaria parasites, thus giving room for proliferation/multiplication.
Next time you are given VITAMIN C with your ANTIMALARIAL DRUG'S be wise to finish with your treatment before proceeding with the vitamins so as to prevent relapse and/or recrudescence.
Reference: http://www.rexchimex.com/2016/07/the-danger-of-taking-anti-malarials.html?m=1
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1117709635010984&id=100003158751143
Very important Post,
Peopele have a wrong idea about Vitamins and Antioxidant
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Wow all the way from Berlin @ayurvedajoshi thanks for dropping a comment
Wow...didn't know this before. I've always taken them together. You just saved a life...thanks a lot!
Nice work. Keep it up
Nice one dear . Oxidants are beneficial in their eradication of parasites, Antioxidants in the system are OK enough to combat them from destruction of our cellular components. But increasing the Antioxidants during Malaria therapy become an anomaly. Thanks for post. Do check out my blog, am interested in health too.
Very necessary information. Like you rightly said ACTs shouldn't be used with Vitamin C and Blood tonic. In a scenario where the patient has serious cold or flu, the antimalarial class can be changed in order to be able to use Vitamin C to quickly give the patient relief. Thank you for sharing.
Exactly you are just on track💛
Personally I like taking more orange I am sick and more of fruit I never knew its wrong tho. Thanks doctor for sharing this with us i will do well to inform others ..bigger you i pray.
This is really informative and educating; this post will be of great help to alot of us in this great community. Personally, this is the first time l'm coming across this kind of info "that co-administration of antimalarial agent with vitamin C or blood tonic is wrong'. Reading through this post with the analyses l have no doubt about this information. Thanks for sharing this with fellow steemians.
@eunireal I never knew about this. Especially with the blood tonic.