• Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    The idiots that survived eating horse ivermectin for covid are going for the next challange.

  • petersr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    If I remember correctly there was a follow up post where he claims to still be doing great.

    • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      2 days ago

      If his skin is tingling, it’s probably potassium salt, like poor-man’s-creatine. That should actually lower BP slightly, since it has the opposite effect of sodium chloride. Your body needs a balance of both at different ratio’s to a horse, however.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      Gonna do wonders for your blood pressure.

      60% of people with high blood pressure are sensitive to sodium, but most healthy people are not.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        And also interestingly, most mammals have the same electrolyte needs as humans. Some need more or less water (esp desert animals), but the balance of the electrolytes themselves (sodium vs potassium vs magnesium etc) are a lot more similar than you would think. The safe water ratio for oral intake is pretty wide too because the 90% of the kidneys job is to rebalance that, so as long as the electrolytes are balanced in relation to each other you’re fine. So for Gatorade the optimal electrolyte level is actually about half (I usually dilute it 1:1 with water) but most healthy humans can easily tolerate it as-is (but it’s still only better than water if you’re losing a lot of water to illness or exercise).

        When I looked up the normal range for the metabolic panel of a dog, the electrolytes were almost identical to a humans. I remember there being a theory that it relates strongly to when in the evolutionary chain we left the oceans, which is pretty similar for most mammals. Assuming this is true of horses, I wouldn’t think this would be any more harmful than Gatorade or pedialyte, and even beneficial in some cases (significant fluid loss to illness or exercise).