Help came against the Chinese coronaviruses - from where they did not expect.
1. The sun is intravenous
President of the United States Donald Trump, having learned that coronaviruses are the very same SARS-CoV-2 that cause the dangerous disease COVID-19 that has swept the whole world, quickly die in the sun, suggested delivering sunlight inside the body - “through the skin or something else- then . And thereby to kill there malicious rubbish.
Trump was ridiculed by everyone except Gennady Onishchenko, the former chief sanitary doctor of Russia, and now the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on education and science. He called the statement of the American President correct, confirming that the ultraviolet of sunlight has a detrimental effect on viruses. In fact, he recommended ultraviolet radiation, though not inside, but what is called, for external use. He advised to treat them - by radiation - the premises.
By the way, the American president himself, judging by his tanned face and white traces of goggles in his eyes, regularly visits the solarium. That is, heeding the advice of Onishchenko, takes ultraviolet light externally.
Donald Trump seems to trust the prophylactic power of ultraviolet light: he has the face of someone who often visits tanning beds.
However, there is still a way to get the "sun" inside, as Trump would like. It has existed for a long time. It is called UFOK - ultraviolet blood irradiation. The irradiation is simple. By means of a physiotherapy device, a part of the blood flow is directed under a quartz lamp. I myself was so "used" 20 years ago - experimentally, healing after an operation for appendicitis.
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Now, some doctors, and without Trump's advice, at their own peril and risk, are trying to use UFOK to treat patients with COVID-19. Because they know that this method is good for the respiratory system. Helps with pneumonia. In addition, it dilates blood vessels, replenishes the oxygen level in organs and tissues, has an anti-inflammatory effect, prevents the formation of blood clots, and improves immunity. And this seems to be what is required by the sick. Despite the controversy about the true essence of the disease, one thing, at least, would definitely come in handy.
2. Oxygen injections
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - ECMO or EMO differs from UFOK only in one thing: the blood is not irradiated, but saturated with oxygen. Take from a vein: "enriched" with life-giving gas. Then it is returned to the artery.
In China, they are treated by adding oxygen to the blood. Helps the lungs.
In a similar way in China - in the province of Hubei - several people seem to have already been cured. And thus, they supported the recently emerging hypothesis that the 2019-nCoV coronavirus affects not so much the lungs as the red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body - it almost deprives them of this ability. It turns out that ECMO compensates for the resulting deficiency.
3. Helium - to the lungs
Alexander Chuchalin, director of the Russian Research Institute of Pulmonology, proposes to be treated with helium - to inhale it from time to time. Naturally, under the guidance and supervision of physicians with the appropriate equipment.
Light gas is easy to breathe.
Helium is a very light and "highly fluid" inert gas that does not react with other substances. Possessing a scanty density, it penetrates into the lungs almost without resistance - thereby facilitating breathing, improves oxygen diffusion through the alveolar-capillary membrane, and relaxes smooth muscles.
For procedures, helium is mixed with oxygen, nitric oxide is added and heated to almost 90 degrees. That, according to doctors, creates a powerful thermal and heat reflex effect on the body, reduces the activity of viruses.
4. Poultices alive
A video with recommendations from the head of the Israeli Institute of Psychosomatics, Eli Thalberg, gained popularity in social networks. He recommends in Russian, recalling the old method of treating pneumonia, the use of which was substantiated at the beginning of the last century by Professor Abram Solomonovich Zalmanov. This is a hot wrap. Or poultices, as such procedures have been called since ancient times in Russia. The dead, according to the popular saying, they did not help. But still alive.
It takes 20 minutes to warm up properly.
Hot wrapping of COVID-19 patients, according to Thalberg, will avoid complications - especially pulmonary fibrosis, which often develops under the influence of coronaviruses.
Wrap the naked torso with a large terry towel soaked in hot water at a temperature of 60 degrees. Wrap quickly so that the wet towel does not cool down. A dry towel is wrapped over a hot towel, and on top of it a quilt is folded into a ribbon along the width of the cable. The wrapped should lie for 20 minutes. Lie down and warm up with your chest. That, as the Israeli doctor assures, destroys viruses in the intercellular space, since they are less viable than the body's native cells. The poultices are also destroyed by the already formed fibrous adhesions.
5. Breathing exercises
J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter stories, said that when she felt the symptoms of COVID-19, she did breathing exercises. Supposedly thanks to her, she was cured. It is not at all excluded. After all, the exercises that she did, helped to cleanse the lungs, supplied oxygen to their lowest sections, which are usually poorly ventilated.
Yogis practically do not cough because they know the secrets of correct inhalation and exhalation.
Exercises from the practice of yogis. Rowling, on the advice of doctors from the British Queens Hospital, did two. One is to inhale slowly, for example, to the count of five, and exhale equally slowly. And so - five or six times. The writer breathed while sitting. Can. Although yogis recommend doing this on the go - inhale five steps, exhale five steps.
In another exercise, you again need to inhale slowly. Take air, as they say, to failure. Hold your breath, and then quickly exhale with your mouth wide open with the sound "h-ah-ah".
Rowling had enough of a set of two exercises - she practiced them for two weeks, several approaches a day. How much strength was enough. But there is a third exercise that will not be superfluous: the same slow inhalation and immediately - without holding the breath - an energetic exhalation through closed lips.
It is most beneficial to inhale through the nose, unless, of course, it is stuffy. For thousands of years, yogis have done this. And they didn't get sick with any coronaviruses.
6. Allow yourself some vodka
Velizar Vlastemirov, the assistant of Baba Vanga, assured that, predicting a certain terrible disease that would come from the East, the soothsayer also remembered the "medicine" for her. Allegedly, according to Vanga's notes, which he found in a notebook, “fire water” would be good against ailments. Velizar quite logically believes that grandmother meant vodka. Or whiskey, which she herself respected.
Modern doctors, of course, object: it is useless to drink for medicinal purposes. Especially getting drunk. Indeed, at best, it will be possible to disinfect the throat. And the coronaviruses, de, are hiding in the lungs. And although it has been proven that this infection does not withstand contact with alcohol, there will be no actual contact.
* Grandmother Vanga's drug * many take with pleasure. Treatment and prevention are overshadowed by overdose.
However, as you know, especially to drivers - from among those who blew into traffic police pipes: even in the morning after an evening drink, alcohol vapors - the notorious ppm - can remain in the exhaled air. Not to mention the previous evening. Where are these pairs from? From the lungs. This means that alcohol contact with the lungs still occurs. As well as with viruses that got there.
In other words, it would be premature to completely exclude vodka from the list of medicines for the new Chinese infection. Until clarification of the circumstances through scientific research. It is clear that in any case, it is not worth abusing the "grandmother Vanga's drug": cirrhosis of the liver is no better than COVID-19.
7. And smoke ?
The mysterious phenomenon was discovered by French doctors, about which they were surprised to notify their Academy of Sciences (French Academy of Sciences' Biology Reports). Led by Professor Zahir Amoura, they examined nearly 500 patients at Paris's Pitié-Salpetriere hospital infected with COVID-19. There were not even 5 percent smokers among them. This despite the fact that in France, more than 25 percent of the population smoke.
“The chances that smokers will develop a symptomatic form of the disease are 5 times less than non-smokers, and the probability of hospitalization is 4 times less,” said research participant Professor Florence Tubach in less than a month.
“In epidemiology, it is very rare to find a protective factor of this magnitude,” the woman wondered in an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro.
Meanwhile, colleagues from the Paris-based hospital Publique-Hopitaux de Paris received similar results: they found less than 8 percent of heavy smokers among 11 thousand hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19.
According to data from China, where a thousand infected people were examined, about 12 percent smoked regularly, with an average smoking rate in China of almost 30 percent.
Zahir Amur believes: "There is definitely something in tobacco that protects against Sars-Cov-2 infection." But what? Nobody really knows. Scientists are still planning to figure it out in the course of the planned more extensive research. They plan, at least, to test the hypothesis that has already come to their minds. Perhaps, they speculate, viruses target the same acetylcholine receptors found in the epithelial cells of the lungs to which nicotine molecules attach. And it turns out that one rubbish, taking its place, blocks another.
Until the situation clears up, doctors recommend not to conclude that smoking is beneficial - cigarette smoke is full of toxic and dangerous compounds that can sooner or later bring to death.
And what's going on in the smoky lungs? Riddle.
Obviously, you shouldn't start smoking as a preventive measure. Since it is unlikely that it will be possible to "clog" the lung receptors with nicotine or something else from cigarette smoke so as to leave no room for viruses at all. After all, it was about the fact that experienced smokers who could easily tolerate huge “doses” of tobacco smoke - 100 times higher than those that non-smokers can inhale without nausea and vomiting - were “protected”. Think of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who tried to smoke a pipe for the first time, escaping to a desert island. They were poisoned by the smoke so that they were barely alive.
Of course, the conspiracy theorists were inspired. First of all, they drew attention to the fact that the coronavirus attack on people became successful after the fight against smoking began all over the world. They literally persecuted smokers. Many have given up. And in Russia as well. Coincidence? Quite possible. Coincidences are now being found here and there. For example, they see a connection between the COVID-19 pandemic and the proliferation of 5G networks. Or, conversely, they associate it with a decrease in the number of those who were vaccinated against tuberculosis in childhood. Allegedly, the vaccine, which was injected for a long time, still protects - also from Chinese coronaviruses.
INSTEAD OF COMMENT
Many doctors recognize antibodies extracted from the blood of those who have been ill as a really effective "cure" for COVID-19. There are still not enough of them for all.
It is not a fact that artificial lung ventilation (ALV) helps everyone. It turned out that this procedure can be dangerous.
According to the World Health Organization, 70 variants of the COVID-19 vaccine are almost ready. But hardly any of them - really effective - will become available sooner than a year from now.
It is too early to dismiss alternative treatments. Something is better than nothing at all.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY