Chloroquine is utilized to treat malaria, a sickness brought about by parasites that enter the body through the bite of a mosquito. Chloroquine isn’t compelling against all strains of intestinal sickness, or against malaria in regions where the contamination has been resistant to a comparable medication called hydroxychloroquine.

Warning

Chloroquine can cause hazardous impacts on your heart, particularly if you likewise utilize certain different drugs. Look for crisis clinical consideration on the off chance that you have quick or fast pulses and unexpected discomforts.

Taking chloroquine for a long time or at high portions might make irreversible harm to the retina of your eye that could cause permanent vision problems. You will be unable to utilize chloroquine if you have a history of vision changes.

Stop using chloroquine and call your primary care physician if you have blurred vision, inconvenience vision, misshaped vision, blind spot, trouble in reading, dim or shady vision, expanded sensitivity to light.

Before taking this medication

You should not utilize this medication in case you are sensitive to chloroquine or hydroxy chloroquine. You will most likely be unable to utilize chloroquine if you have at any point had vision changes or harm to your retina.

High portions or long term use of chloroquine might make irreversible harm to your retina (the film layer inside your eye that helps produce vision). This could damage your permanent vision issues. The danger of retinal harm is higher in individuals with pre-existing eye issues, kidney infections, or individuals who likewise take tamoxifen.

Tell your PCP if you have at any time ever:

• vision changes or damage to your retina caused by an anti-malaria medication;
• heart disease, heart rhythm disorder
• an electrolyte imbalance (such as low levels of potassium or magnesium in your blood);
• diabetes;
• liver or kidney disease;
• Psychosis
• alcoholism
•  porphyria(a genetic enzyme disorder that causes symptoms affecting the skin or nervous system); or
• a genetic enzyme deficiency called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.

Tell your PCP in case you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Malaria is bound to cause genuine ailment or passing in a pregnant lady. Having intestinal sickness during pregnancy may likewise build the danger of unsuccessful pregnancy, stillbirth, unexpected pain and low birth weight.

It isn’t known whether chloroquine will hurt an unborn child. In case you are pregnant, get some information about the dangers of going to regions where malaria is normal (like Africa, South America, and Southern Asia).

You should not breastfeed while utilizing chloroquine.

How should I take chloroquine?

Follow all headings on your prescription reading and read all drug guides or guidance sheets. Utilize the medication precisely as coordinated.

To prevent intestinal sickness: Chloroquine is normally taken once each week around the same time every week. Begin taking the medication 2 weeks before entering a region where malaria is normal. Continue taking the medication during your visit and for somewhere around two months after you leave the region.

To treat intestinal sickness: Chloroquine is typically given as one high portion followed by more modest dosages during the following 2 days straight.

To treat amebiasis: Chloroquine is given in a high beginning portion for 2 days followed by a more modest portion for 2 to 3 weeks. You might be given different meds to assist with preventing further contamination.

Chloroquine portions depend on weight in youngsters. Your youngster’s portion needs might change if the kid gains or gets more fit.

Use chloroquine for the full prescription time that your doctor recommends regardless of whether your indications rapidly improve.

Call your primary care physician as quickly as time permits if you have been presented with malaria, or then again if you have a fever or different side effects of ailment during or after a stay in a space where malaria is normal.

Utilize protective dress, insect repellent, and mosquito netting around your bed to additionally prevent mosquito bites that could cause malaria.

No prescription is 100% successful in treating or preventing a wide range of malaria. Consult with your PCP if you have a fever, or lose diarrhoea during your treatment.

While utilizing chloroquine, you might require successive clinical trials and vision tests.

Store at room temperature away from moisture, warmth, and light.

If I miss the dose or take an overdose

Doses are based on height, age, medical condition, laboratory test results, and reaction to treatment.
If you miss the dose
Take immediately after when you remember. If it is almost time for the second dose skip the first dose. Do not take two doses at a time.
If you overdose yourself
Seek emergency medical attention call at 108 

Side effects of Chloroquine

Get medical help immediately if you have indications of a hypersensitive response (hives, troublesome breathing, swelling in your face or throat) or an extreme skin response (fever, sore throat, consuming eyes, skin irritation, red or purple skin rash with rankling and stripping).

Additionally, look for crisis clinical consideration if you have side effects of a genuine heart issue: quick or beating pulses, rippling in your chest, windedness, and unexpected unsteadiness (like you may drop).

Call your primary care physician without a moment’s delay if you have:

a seizure;

ringing in your ears, inconvenience hearing;

extreme muscle shortcoming, loss of coordination, underactive reflexes;

low platelet counts- – fever, chills, sluggishness, mouth injuries, skin wounds, simple swelling, surprising dying, fair skin, cold hands and feet, feeling tipsy or winded;

low glucose – headache, hunger, perspiring, crabbiness, wooziness, quick pulse, and feeling restless or precarious; or

a genuine medication response that can influence many pieces of your body- – skin rash, fever, enlarged organs, muscle hurts serious shortcoming, surprising swelling, or yellowing of your skin or eyes.

Taking chloroquine for a long time or at high portions might make irreversible harm to the retina of your eye. Quit taking chloroquine and tell your PCP on the off chance that you have:

Blurred vision, inconvenience focusing, inconvenience perusing;

vision changes, helpless night vision;

changes in your shading vision;

murky or overcast vision;

seeing light blazes or streaks, seeing coronas around lights; or

expanded affectability to light.

Normal incidental effects might include:

Nausea vomiting, diarrhoea, stomach cramps;

Headache

Unusual changes in the state of mind or conduct;

going bald; or

changes in hair or skin tone.

This is certifiably not a total list of side effects and others might happen.

Chloroquine can cause genuine heart insulin or oral diabetes medication issue. Your danger might be higher if you likewise take certain different drugs for contaminations, asthma, heart issues, hypertension, sadness, dysfunctional behaviour, malignant growth, intestinal sickness, or HIV.

If you take an anti-toxin called ampicillin, take it 2 hours prior or 2 hours after you take your chloroquine portion.

Tell your primary care physician regarding all your different drugs, particularly:

cimetidine;

cyclosporine;

mefloquine;

praziquantel;

tamoxifen;  

 Precautions

Your doctor must check your progress at regular intervals. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you should continue to take it.

Blood and urine tests may be needed to check for unwanted side effects.

Make sure any doctor or dentist who treats you knows that you are using this medicine. You may need to stop using this medicine if you have major surgery, major injury, or if you develop other serious health problems.

Call your doctor right away if you have unexplained muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness, especially if you also have unusual tiredness or a fever.

Call your doctor right away if you have a fever, muscle cramps or spasms, muscle pain or stiffness, or unusual tiredness or weakness.

During pregnancy, this drug should be utilized just when required. Examine the risks and advantages with your PCP. Your PCP might guide you to utilize insulin rather than this product during your pregnancy. Adhere to your PCP’s directions cautiously.

Do not stop or change your dose without consulting with your doctor, even if you are feeling well.

Do not take other medicine with this medicine without asking your doctor if you have already had other prescribed medicine tell your doctor.

 Medical guidelines

Try not to share this prescription with other people.

Read the information written on the chloroquine medications carefully. And if you have any queries related to medicine ask your doctor. Only your doctor can tell you chloroquine is right for you or not. Do not start this medicine before asking your doctor because this medicine has harmful side effects on your body.