0 a drug used to treat some diseases such as malaria (= a disease causing fever, spread by the bite of a mosquito):
The patient reported worsening joint pain and scaly lesions of the scalp, and was started on hydroxychloroquine.
If progressive inflammation and joint destruction occur, more potent medications such as corticosteroids and antimalarial medications (such as hydroxychloroquine) are used.
Some medications, such as prednisone and hydroxychloroquine, have the side effect of causing sleeplessness.
Hydroxychloroquine is often successful in producing either amelioration or remission of the disease.
Patients received 1 tablet of hydroxychloroquine (200 mg) 3 times a day.
