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From: abc@brl-smoke.ARPA (Brint Cooper )
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Quinine and Mineral Water?
Message-ID: <4919@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 26-Oct-86 20:19:19 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.4919
Posted: Sun Oct 26 20:19:19 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Oct-86 05:28:46 EST
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: quinine, mineral water, myasthenia gravis


	I have just learned, from a 1983 publication, that sufferers
from myasthenia gravis (MG) should avoid the medical use of quinine and
other anti-arrythmics (sp?).  The article didn't mention if the drinking
of tonic water was also to be avoided.

	We spent July in Switzerland and Italy, where you buy your
drinking water.  It is almost always a "mineral water," and the
ingredients are tabulated on some labels.  This was my sole source of
drinking water for a month and I drank several litres each day.

	Does anyone know what the chances are that quinine was present
in any of the commercial mineral waters sold in Europe?  I am quite
naive in this area; I haven't the foggiest notion of what quinine is.
All I know is that, not long after returning from our trip, I suffered
an attack of the MG that still hasn't relented in spite of taking lots
more medicine and doing almost nothing physical.
-- 
Brint Cooper

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