Chloroquine
Chloroquine: Understanding its Impact, Recognizing Problems, and Ways to Improve
Chloroquine is an antiparasitic medicine primarily used to prevent and treat malaria.It works by killing the malaria-causing parasite and stops the infection from spreading.
Impact of Gene Variant
- Chloroquine can modulate the outcome of infection during the Plasmodium sporogonic development, interfering with Plasmodium gene expression and subsequently, with transmission.
- Existing literature suggests that Chloroquine can induce mutagenic and genotoxic effects in multiple test systems.
Side effects
- Serious side effects include problems with vision, muscle damage, seizures, and low blood cell levels.
- Common side effects include muscle problems, loss of appetite, diarrhea, and skin rash.
- Check with your doctor right away if you have difficulty in speaking, drooling, loss of balance control, muscle trembling, jerking, or stiffness, restlessness, shuffling walk, stiffness of the limbs, twisting movements of the body, or uncontrolled movements, especially of the face, neck, and back.
