A woman and her husband drank a fish tank cleaner called chloroquine, confusing it with hydroxychloroquine after Donald Trump mentioned it can treat coronavirus at a press conference.
The husband has now died after drinking the fish tank cleaner and the wife was left in critical condition.
The unidentified woman has now opened up about the incident and told they mistook the fish tank cleaner for the potential coronavirus treatment called hydroxychloroquine.
The woman told NBC: “We were afraid we were getting sick. We were getting really worried.”
After the couple saw President Donald Trump kept saying that hydroxychloroquine can cure coronavirus, they took a teaspoon of the chemical with soda.
The woman said: “They kept saying that it was approved for other things. I was in the pantry and I saw it sitting on the back shelf and I said “hey isn’t that stuff they were talking about on tv.”
Within minutes, the couple became severely ill and the husband died while doctors were working on him in ER.
She was left devastated after her husband’s death as she said he was her whole life and her heart will now never mend.
She said: “Don’t believe anything that the president says and his people, be so careful. Call your doctor. Like my husband. Please educate the people.”
Hydroxychloroquine, which is an antimalaria drug, was branded the potential coronavirus treatment by President Trump at his conferences.
However, it has not been proved that Hydroxychloroquine can cure coronavirus patients.
Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director, said: “Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so.”
However, some across the US have claimed that the drug has cured them after it was prescribed by doctors.
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