COVID-19: Disinfectant injection comments "unfounded" and should not be mistaken for medical advice - expert comment
24 April 2020
Professor Parastou Donyai, Director of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Reading said:
“Medicines or poisons taken by people start their effect on the body at different speeds, depending on how they are taken. For example, ordinary tablets go into the stomach first before being taken into the rest of the body and this slows down their effect.
"The quickest way to get something into the body is by injecting it. Sadly, this gives very little time to step in and reverse the injection of a poison.
"We have already seen people mistakenly poisoning themselves by taking chloroquine when their hopes were raised by unscientific comments. What is shocking about these latest comments is that they completely bypass other important facts about injections too: not only will home-made injections bruise, burn, or block the veins, they will almost certainly also introduce new infections straight into the body, the very thing people are desperate to avoid.
"People worried about the Coronavirus or COVID-19 should seek help from a qualified doctor or pharmacist, and not take unfounded and off-the-cuff comments as actual advice.”