Retailers are warning people to leave the parasitic medication ivermectin for its primary intended recipients: animals.
Although the drug is FDA-approved for parasitic infections such as lice and scabies in humans, widespread claims that it can prevent or treat COVID-19 have caused a run on it.
Stores such as Buchheit have added warnings against the off-label use of ivermectin-based veterinary products such as horse dewormer and sheep drench.
Petrina Jannin, corporate human resources director for Buchheit Stores, said the company began putting up the warnings as a precaution after hearing concerns from vendors.
“With all the publicity around ivermectin, we felt we needed to add the additional caution to our website and stores,” Jannin said. “We just want to be on the safe side.”
The Food and Drug Administration acknowledges a research study purported the drug worked as a COVID-19 inhibitor in early laboratory tests, but said there has not been enough testing to determine its potential. It warns it can cause side effects that include stomach pain, facial or limb swelling, adverse neurological events and liver injury.
“You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” the agency said in a Twitter post this month.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a doctor of ophthalmology, has said politics are preventing further studies of the drug as an option.
Paul has been a frequent critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over COVID-19 and told a group in northern Kentucky late last week that “the hatred for Trump deranged these people so much that they’re unwilling to objectively study it. So someone like me that’s in the middle on it, I can’t tell you because they will not study ivermectin.”
The American Association of Poison Control Centers has seen an increase in ivermectin-associated reports in the past few months.
Jannin said that while many of Buchheit’s stores haven’t seen an increase in the sale of ivermectin-based products, vendors have and shared their concerns with stores.
“According to (our vendors) they’ve had an increase in sales to other companies,” Jannin said. “We want our customers to be safe. In some locations, these products are in the back so they can be saved for our farmers.”
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