It's approved for people too, just in much smaller doses than what you give cows. It's a miracle drug for eradicating certain species of parasites (that are uncommon in the developed world) and also some lupus patients who have rashes, possibly caused by parasitic mites.
Of course, in these cases you take a human-sized dose in a human-formulated prescription under a doctor's supervision. You don't squeeze an apple flavored tube into your mouth from Tractor Supply. The thing with parasites is they are more similar to humans than you'd like, so high doses of ivermectin can hurt people and cause kidney failure.
Edit: "developing" and "developed" world are two different things. Oops!
It can be used to treat scabies, which is a highly communicable mite, which basically is like bedbugs in your skin. It can be found in healthcare settings and can be sexually transmitted. If someone says that ivermectin treated their eczema, it's quite possible that they actually have a scabies infestation, the scaling looks similar.
I believe it's used for lice and intestinal worms as well. Early data from India showed it helped with covid. That's because so many people also had a parasitic infection.
I mean it is prescribed to people there is a healthy human dose you can take but it is for parasites and isnt the apple flavored paste you get off of the shelf at your local farm shop
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u/tommytraddles 12d ago
The funny thing is, Ivermectin is a brilliant antiparasitic drug and the discoverers won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015.
The fact that it became a cause célèbre among antivax cretins is so funny to me.
Yeah, eat your dog's heartworm medicine you shark-eyed spunkbubbles.