Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy

Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by lostlogin on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @02:51PM (#20033127)

Tonic water made with actual quinine rather than the synthetic stuff is great. It seems preferable to the pills, though I suspect you’d have to drink a lot.

Edit: The WHO suggest treating severe drug resistant malaria with 500mg of quinine orally every 8 hours. A 1 litre bottle of tonic water should not contain more than 83mg according to the FDA. Drinking 6 litres every 8 hours is a bit much. https://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Jh2922e/2.5.2.html#Jh...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonic_water

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Re:Eating Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan's Imperial Navy by matwood on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:34PM (#20033511)

I prefer my mixed drinks with tonic over any other mixer. As you note, off the shelf tonic has very little quinine nowadays. When I had to take the pills I was headed to an area with a known malaria risk.

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