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 "(This is an) absolutely dangerous crazy suggestion," said Paul
Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain's University of East
Anglia.
"You may not die of COVID-19 after injecting disinfectant, but only
because you may already be dead from the injection."
Trump said at his daily media briefing on Thursday that scientists
should explore whether inserting light or disinfectant into the
bodies of people infected with the new coronavirus might help them
clear the disease.
"Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside,
or almost a cleaning?," he said. "It would be interesting to check
that."
Parastou Donyai, director of pharmacy practice and a professor of
social and cognitive pharmacy at the University of Reading, said
Trump's comments were shocking and unscientific.
He said people worried about the new coronavirus and the COVID-19
disease it causes should seek help from a qualified doctor or
pharmacist, and "not take unfounded and off-the-cuff comments as
actual advice".
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Reading's Donyai said previous comments by Trump had already been linked to
people self-administering medicines or other products in ways that make them
poisonous.
"We have already seen people mistakenly poisoning themselves by taking
chloroquine when their hopes were raised by unscientific comments," he said.
Reckitt Benckiser, which manufacturers household disinfectants Dettol and Lysol,
issued a statement on Friday warning people not to ingest or inject its
products.
(Reporting by Kate Kelland, Editing by William Maclean)
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