Quinine Sulphate for Intramuscular Injections

Quinine Sulphate for Intramuscular Injections

Intramuscular Quinine in Malaria

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?Having read the letter by Dr. D. M. Vasavada in your issue for October 1930 on intravenous quinine, j. am prompted to write to you to emphasise the value o intramuscular injections of quinine in malaria. TllC intramuscular injection is not followed by the fall i11 blood-pressure which occurs with intravenous injeC" lions, the method is easy and sa...

Intravenous Quinine in Malaria

on intravenous quinine injections. As this place is a hotbed of malaria, I deal with several hundred malaria cases each year, and for the past few months I have been in the habit of giving quinine intravenously, having abandoned the intramuscular route as, in some cases, it resulted in abscesses. Since reading Dr. Vasavada's letter I have given more than a hundred intravenous quinine injections...

Intramuscular Quinine in Malaria

Sir,?I have seen the correspondence on this subject in two or more numbers of the Gazette, and perhaps I may be permitted to record my experience in it. Some years ago I was in charge of a hospital in a malarious district, and, if my memory serves me right, I had occasion to treat about 740 cases microscopically proved to be malaria in 2 years and 10 months' time. I administered over 3,000 intr...

Quinine Tolerance in Pregnancy

Sir,?The above article in the December 1937 issue interested me very much because it raises some other points. The patient was given nine 10-grain quinine injections intramuscularly,. thrice daily and on consecutive days. In the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene they condemn most emphatically intramuscular injections of quinine. They say quinine causes tissue necrosis, much of the ...