Covid . alternative cures?

It’s actually horses for courses. Some patients do well enough on additional oxygen, via a mask or those little tubes up your nose, others need CPAP machines and others need to be intubated and for a ventilator to take over the whole breathing process. It will also have a humidifier, adding heat and moisture to match the patient’s body temperature.
If you have milder symptoms a face mask or nasal mask will allow pressurised air to be pumped into the lungs.
So it’s not a case of “better” or “worse” but what is appropriate for the patient.

Yes I read that ventilators are not a good idea. They are very intrusive and as you say are not supposed to be giving the correct treatment to the lungs. Not many people survive a ventilator. I know if I went in I would not be having one.

Did anyone read the report the other day saying that patients should be put on oxygen masks and not ventilators, because the symptoms are more like altitude sickness, not pneumonia? It seems that the blood needs oxygen, not the lungs.
I’m trying to find more information on the subject online.

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.

Have you ever tried to catch a unicorn MawB?

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

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

Unicorn milk is also recommended ?

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.

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.

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.

You could start a cottage industry merlot.

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

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

There won't be enough to go round.

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.

Bring back Izal, nothing would get through that.

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

Oh yes, pasta is the answer.

Wrap yourself in toilet rolls and eat pasta with chocolate.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.