Covid . alternative cures?

If only!

Maybe we should run a clinical trial of chocolate v Covid 19?
It might not help, but it certainly couldn’t hurt, especially if we all stay indoors.
It could be delivered straight to our door..........?

I don't see why they can't try tetracycline, which I know is a drug for bacterial infection but surely it could act as an aid with another drug such as quinine ? The Mycins are used for streptococcal infections of the throat, chest and for treating pneumonia.

Given at the first sign of a sore throat would be a start I'm sure.
I don't see the harm in trying/using a bacterial drug for a virus.
If no-one professes to know how to treat this virus how could they refuse something which could prevent infection from entering the lungs via the mouth/throat.?

GP's are too quick in saying they can't give out antibiotics for this that and the other-----that whatever you're suffering is a virus !! They don't know everything. I'd try anything to save a life personally.

Apparently smoking reduces your chances of getting it. If a smoker does get it then they may get it badly, but the percentage of smokers in the covid wards is far less than the percentage in the population. They think the virus can't latch on as successfully or something. Weird.

EllanVannin why not email Porton Down and suggest it? They might not have thought of that one.

Ellanvannin..I agree with Grannylaine..anything is worth a try..you seem to know what you are talking about ?

As far as I know, no known virus responds to drugs that combat bacterial infections, but of course coronavirus might be the exception.

Pity the poor US doctors having to deal with Trump telling them his ideas for a cure - light therapy or injecting disinfectant!!!

It is a viral infection, not a bacterial infection.

I wouldn't recommend dark chocolate.
(If I do there will be none left for me when i shop online).

Some people seemed to think that toilet rolls were the answer.

Or maybe those buying all the pasta are on to something Callistemon?

Ah it's hard to beat gargling in TCP!!

Oh yes, pasta is the answer.

Wrap yourself in toilet rolls and eat pasta with chocolate.

Toilet paper works. You swathe yourself in it from head to toe and the virus doesn’t stand a chance of getting through.

Bring back Izal, nothing would get through that.

Here’s another Bonkers idea

School pupils in Madagascar have been told they face expulsion if they refuse to drink a herbal tea their president claims prevents and cures COVID-19.

Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar’s populist leader, this week launched “COVID-organics” amid great fanfare, particularly on the radio and television stations he owns.

Developed from plants found in abundance on the Indian Ocean island, COVID-organics had allowed Madagascar to succeed where all other countries had failed, he said.

Not only would the product stop anyone who drank it from developing the virus, it would heal anyone who had caught it within seven days, the president told reporters. Two people had already been cured, he added.

“We can change the history of the entire world,” Mr Rajoelina said.

If my turmeric and black pepper vodka keeps coronavirus at bay I'm telling nobody.

There won't be enough to go round.

You could start a cottage industry merlot.

Personally, I am hoping that this glass of merlot may help.
Its calming me down anyway!

Re pineapples, I read that you would have to eat like 12 of them to get a medically significant dose of the active ingredient that people make claims about..

The real cures are boring:
Keeping your blood sugar down is a biggie with covid
Stat hydrated because of the clotting risk
Exercise to keep your lung bases open
Eat a rainbow.

Re pineapples, I read that you would have to eat like 12 of them to get a medically significant dose of the active ingredient that people make claims about..

The real cures are boring:
Keeping your blood sugar down is a biggie. So dont eat 12 pineapples!
Stat hydrated
Exercise
Eat a rainbow.

There’s an interesting study about the possibility of subcutaneous nicotine - but not smoking, which obviously kills many more thousands each year than covid-19. Far more research is needed of course.

In the meantime, I’m pretty sure that there are no alternative cures - unless you believe in big pharma and conspiracy theories.

Unicorn milk is also recommended ?

Nicotine is a cardiac stimulant.

You need to already be hospital ill to be septic enough that that would make a difference I would have thought

Have you ever tried to catch a unicorn MawB?

It's not easy, those alicorns can be very sharp!

A doctor was interviewed a week or so ago on TV and he said, with patients whose condition was very serious, he had decided, as a last ditch attempt, to use a drug (can't remember what it was called) that breaks up clots - because, apparently, the virus causes clots in the lungs. He said that it had significantly improved the condition of some patients.

I realise that this is not "proof" that the medication he used is effective in combating the virus - to have that formally recognised would take a considerable time in which extensive trials are carried out. However, when a patient is rapidly deteriorating and there are no other options left, I think it makes sense to try something different - obviously only medications that have been passed as safe.