COVID-19 urgent update for those dealing with the infection directly or caring for them
Starve a cold and feed a fever. I've never been quite sure of the applicability of that phrase. But a new apparent urgency has been given to fever management of COVID-19 patients.
Do not use antifinlammatories. Antiinflammatories are of two classes: Steroidal and non-steroidal. The commonest steroidal agents used in medicine are cortisol (hydroxycortisone), and prednisone, and prednisone. Other brand names also, such as Decadron (dexamethasone), Branded betamethasone, etc.
Non-steroidal antiinflammatories, NSAIDs, mimic steroid hormone-related drugs, without being complete replacements for steroids. They are thus less potent but only somewhat less likely to produce adverse medical effects as the hormone-derived antiinflammatories.
(chemical) Antipyretics reduce fever. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is not an NSAID but does reduce fever.
Fever plays a biological purpose, to enable the body's immune system, especially cellular ones, to function more efficiently. Yes, fever makes most people feel awful but it has survival value, both long-term, as a species, and on the individual level.
Consider that sweat baths, hot showers, etc. are often considered soothing, helpful or innervating. So response to fever is often considered by some to be pleasant. In the case of COVID-19 fever is likely beneficial occurring to recent observations. A clear cut brief recitation of this point is made on Dr. John Campbell's March 16 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWo5lmWuZI
If you need to cool off, consider the following:
disrobe
cool baths
cooling fans
external application of ethyl alcohol or isopropyl alcohol (called rubbing alcohol precisely for its antipyretic actions)
Internal (ethyl) alcohol in large quantities, especially when chronically consumed, depress the auto immune system.
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My mother used to put
sliced raw potatoes all over our body to reduce fever, when I was a kid. I suppose it worked.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
The active measure of such an action
would likely relate to the heat absorption of the potato from your body. I doubt the potato starches have any benefit when externally applied. However, when your fever subsides, you can always eat the cooling agent. Fried or mashed?
And if you die the family can enjoy Shepard's pie.
Ooooh!
Is alligator meat an ingredient in shepard's pie?
It is for bon vivants having a sophisticated palate
This elegant white meat is best served with a quality Chardonnay such as Chardona Domaine Leflaive Batard Montrachet Grand Cru - which has delicate notes of hazelnut and lemon.
I think I have a sophisticated palate
What do you think?
returning the empties
for a refill?
Damn right!
In these days one needs all the money one can get. The deposit on this one wasn't too high--it was a Biden voter.
Was he tasty?
I see you collect mementos. How
warmtender-hearted of you.Gotta run now. I've a funeral to see and people to do.
Not very tasty
for regular people as they dry up - maybe chips for reptiles, though. Yes, I’m sure.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
US health care system in 4 weeks
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68]
I've got an 8' trailer. I'm going to subcontract my services to make a few extra bucks so I can pay for COVID-19 tests for me and my family. If you want to survive in this country you have to embrace free enterprise.
Warning, don't embrace too long
because if you do "the system" will embrace you ardently that the breath will be forcibly expelled from your soon-to-be lifeless body. I recommend distancing yourself from government--to reduce that chance that governmental disease afflicts you.
I've got a wheelbarrow.
I want to be as historically close as possible.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
With the wheelbarrow
will you use a pitchfork or not?
You asked.......(WARNING!!! MAY OFFEND MANY)
Depends on if they're babies or bodys.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Offended. Indeed not.
Now given the choice you make, I will accept any leftovers, no matter how skewered. Just don't throw them too close to my competition. It's a cold hard world in the swamp.
Kim Iverson video shows temperature / cluster relationships
Wu Flu hot spots related to temperature--the yellow-green zones.
This heat map its from March 2019 because 2020 heat map is currently incomplete. But the general idea seems sound.
Maybe we won't have the summertime blues. Maybe the pandemic slows
Lack of which would be detrimental
to my mental health.
Guess I have to increase bud usage instead.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Bud?
The herbal variety or the beer variety?
You a cop?
I never stoop to budweiser the king of jeers.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Just got back from the bank
They were out of $100 bills and $50 bills.
Interesting.
Of course they're all out of $50's and $100's
Don't you know how bulky $10's and $20's can be when you're packing to leave the country to go to a nice sunny private island in an out of the way place?
Too damned hard to wash or disinfect.
I'm sticking to my plastic for a while. Got a mason jar with the paper if needed.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Health warning
please sanitize your greenbacks with a strong UV light.
Then feel safe when you buy your magic Corona Virus Cure at Walgreens and other fine outlets.
To be clear
The French tweet and interview are not specific to COVID-19, but are for any fever-inducing infection, although some of the media present it otherwise. France has required consultations with a pharmacist since mid January for purchases of NSAIDs. It is not clear that this restriction has been in any way helpful. Epidemiologists are annoyed that this is being misrepresented and suggest it is irresponsible for the French Minister of Health to tweet about this without any empirical evidence to support the claim. John Campbell argues that running a fever is good on a theoretical basis but has no empirical data that indicate that it actually helps with COVID-19.
Fever, within limits, is a biological aid to survival
Fever is beneficial. But, just as with anything else, there can be too much of a good thing. Temperature of 107 is always bad. For some, fever doesn't have to be even that high to be ruinous.
As for gators, we get hyperactive and irritable at elevated temperatures. And the warmth really enhances our jaw muscles.
These two present some studies...
supporting the fever hypothesis, plus suggesting that saunas are preventative (not curative)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NEnvZJhCwQ&t=35m]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Healing sweat baths were de rigeur for the Navajos
They used sweat houses liberally. And boy did they smell pungent after emerging, like having bathed in somerthing creosote plus menthol, if you can imagine that combination.
One year when I had whatever flu variety was then in style, I purposefully did not take antipyretics. Instead I roasted under several blankets even with T 103˚. I was better the next day. Coincidence? Maybe. How could I know, since I refuse to participate in a double-blind study?
More from Dr John today on fevers...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJqSdmNNwW4]
he explains the mechanism for improved immune response when in a fever.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I've been taking palmitoylethanolamide for about 6 years
because i am a glaucoma suspect (15 years now and no diagnosis) and it benefits the retina, etc. It's mostly used in Europe for pain.
The product comes from the Netherlands. (PEAPure Russell Science) and is sold through the glaucoma website Fiteyes. PEA is a natural anti-inflammatory that apparently does not depress the immune system. It's antiviral properties were discovered in the 1950's.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3771453/
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/iji/2013/151028/
http://accurateclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Professor-Rita-Levi...
I haven't had the flu in many many years and don't get flu shots. I also take elderberry syrup all winter (now extended in to the spring). All that being said, at age 69 I am self isolating, washing hands, sanitizing and using gloves when I go out to shop. This virus is an unknown, so best to be safe and throw the book at it.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Great idea. Stay with it!
I will check the links after sending this comment.
You hit a gold-mine
It is now clear why PEA doesn't get media play--Big Pharma can't patent this--or peanut oil. I am going to publish an essay today expanding on this material, for which I thank you greatly.