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Bohnjaggs said:
I don't know how reliable this is but a friend of mine shared this on FB and it totally makes sense

CORONA Common Sense
Since they are calling on Respiratory therapist to help fight the Corona virus, and I am a retired one, too old to work in a hospital setting. I'm gonna share some common sense wisdom with those that have the virus and trying to stay home. If my advice is followed as given you will improve your chances of not ending up in the hospital on a ventilator. This applies to the otherwise generally healthy population, so use discretion. 1. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high. Tylenol, Advil. Motrin, Ibuprofen etc. will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. They are saying that ibuprophen, advil etc will actually exacerbate the virus. Use common sense and don't let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. If it gets higher than that take your tylenol, not ibuprophen or advil to keep it regulated. It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets so body does not have to work so hard to generate the heat. It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever. 2. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate yourself regulaly, whether you like it or not. Gatorade with real sugar, or pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. The electrolytes and fluid you are losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade. If you don't do this and end up in the hospital they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavors 3. You must keep your lungs moist. Best done by taking long steamy showers on a regular basis, if your wheezing or congested use a real minty toothpaste and brush your teeth while taking the steamy shower and deep breath through your mouth. This will provide some bronchial dialation and help loosen the phlegm. Force your self to cough into a wet wash cloth pressed firmly over your mouth and nose, which will cause greater pressure in your lungs forcing them to expand more and break loose more of the congestion. 4. Eat healthy and regularly. Gotta keep your strength up. 5. Once the fever breaks, start moving around to get the body back in shape and blood circulating. 6. Deep breath on a regular basis, even when it hurts. If you don't it becomes easy to develope pneumonia. Pursed lip breathing really helps. That's breathing in deep and slow then exhaling through tight lips as if your blowing out a candle, blow until you have completely emptied your lungs and you will be able to breath in an even deeper breath. This helps keep lungs expanded as well as increase your oxygen level. 7. Remember that every medication you take is merely relieving the symptoms, not making you well. 8. If your still dying go to ER.
I've been doing these things for myself and my family for over 40 years and kept them out of the hospital, all are healthy and still living today.
Thank you all for sharing. We gotta help one another.
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My friends who are current medical researchers say there is not sufficient evidence to support the claim that ibuprofen exacerbates COVID-19.
 
Bohnjaggs said:
I don't know how reliable this is but a friend of mine shared this on FB and it totally makes sense

CORONA Common Sense
Since they are calling on Respiratory therapist to help fight the Corona virus, and I am a retired one, too old to work in a hospital setting. I'm gonna share some common sense wisdom with those that have the virus and trying to stay home. If my advice is followed as given you will improve your chances of not ending up in the hospital on a ventilator. This applies to the otherwise generally healthy population, so use discretion. 1. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high. Tylenol, Advil. Motrin, Ibuprofen etc. will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. They are saying that ibuprophen, advil etc will actually exacerbate the virus. Use common sense and don't let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. If it gets higher than that take your tylenol, not ibuprophen or advil to keep it regulated. It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets so body does not have to work so hard to generate the heat. It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever. 2. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate yourself regulaly, whether you like it or not. Gatorade with real sugar, or pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. The electrolytes and fluid you are losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade. If you don't do this and end up in the hospital they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavors 3. You must keep your lungs moist. Best done by taking long steamy showers on a regular basis, if your wheezing or congested use a real minty toothpaste and brush your teeth while taking the steamy shower and deep breath through your mouth. This will provide some bronchial dialation and help loosen the phlegm. Force your self to cough into a wet wash cloth pressed firmly over your mouth and nose, which will cause greater pressure in your lungs forcing them to expand more and break loose more of the congestion. 4. Eat healthy and regularly. Gotta keep your strength up. 5. Once the fever breaks, start moving around to get the body back in shape and blood circulating. 6. Deep breath on a regular basis, even when it hurts. If you don't it becomes easy to develope pneumonia. Pursed lip breathing really helps. That's breathing in deep and slow then exhaling through tight lips as if your blowing out a candle, blow until you have completely emptied your lungs and you will be able to breath in an even deeper breath. This helps keep lungs expanded as well as increase your oxygen level. 7. Remember that every medication you take is merely relieving the symptoms, not making you well. 8. If your still dying go to ER.
I've been doing these things for myself and my family for over 40 years and kept them out of the hospital, all are healthy and still living today.
Thank you all for sharing. We gotta help one another.
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so this post really makes me think I had it about a month back. Maybe it was just a normal flu, but I usually don’t get sick like I did. The cough was persistent for about 2 weeks after I got over the fever. No one else in my household or people I come into contact with had symptoms after me. at this point it’s all speculation.
 
Another of my wife's coworkers tested positive today. This one is scary because she worked right next to her in the chemo-room on Wednesday...so we're on a 'two weeks from last Wednesday' watch now. I need to find a way to just accept all this as it comes, the dread can become crippling if I let it.
 
blissfullychaotic said:
www.cnn.com

WHO stands by recommendation to not wear masks if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick | CNN

World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Posts like this are really starting to scare me, the WHO recommends not wearing a mask unless you are sick or carrying it, however there are not enough tests available to know if you are actually carrying it, so basically, we have to hope that we don't run into another person who is also confused and not wearing a mask and now both people run the risk of one effecting the other. I get it that we have a mask shortage, but to tell people to only wear it if you are sick is going to make people like me who wear a mask every time I go outside to be considered carrier.
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My dad went grocery shopping with a full face, charcoal filter, respirator. I think the time to be worried about people passing judgement about wearing a mask in public is over. You do you. If it makes you feel safer, do it.
 
blissfullychaotic said:
www.cnn.com

WHO stands by recommendation to not wear masks if you are not sick or not caring for someone who is sick | CNN

World Health Organization officials Monday said they still recommend people not wear face masks unless they are sick with Covid-19 or caring for someone who is sick.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

Posts like this are really starting to scare me, the WHO recommends not wearing a mask unless you are sick or carrying it, however there are not enough tests available to know if you are actually carrying it, so basically, we have to hope that we don't run into another person who is also confused and not wearing a mask and now both people run the risk of one effecting the other. I get it that we have a mask shortage, but to tell people to only wear it if you are sick is going to make people like me who wear a mask every time I go outside to be considered carrier.
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I think that's why the advice is to try not to come across another person in the first place.
 
Dtknuckles said:
so this post really makes me think I had it about a month back. Maybe it was just a normal flu, but I usually don’t get sick like I did. The cough was persistent for about 2 weeks after I got over the fever. No one else in my household or people I come into contact with had symptoms after me. at this point it’s all speculation.
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This happened to me and like 3 other people in my office this year, but it was when the virus was still only reported in China. It was weird for us because we don't ever get sick either.
 
folsom_lives said:
If it makes you feel safer, do it.
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Within reason -- I do think that people tend to overlook some of the commentary about how if we're wearing masks then we're more likely to touch our faces more often to adjust them than we would if we weren't wearing them. Since our hands are some of the primary means of contracting the virus, you could put yourself at more risk that way if you aren't being mindful about that sort of stuff.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Within reason -- I do think that people tend to overlook some of the commentary about how if we're wearing masks then we're more likely to touch our faces more often to adjust them than we would if we weren't wearing them. Since our hands are some of the primary means of contracting the virus, you could put yourself at more risk that way if you aren't being mindful about that sort of stuff.
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I had a discussion with my wife (the nurse) about how they are reusing masks and that it's basically them just making up new and creative ways to take the mask off without touching the front part and keeping that from touching anything else. So I get being mindful about wearing them. Same thing with gloves and cross-contamination. Seeing people with gloves on touching their phones or their faces makes me cringe.
 
folsom_lives said:
I had a discussion with my wife (the nurse) about how they are reusing masks and that it's basically them just making up new and creative ways to take the mask off without touching the front part and keeping that from touching anything else. So I get being mindful about wearing them. Same thing with gloves and cross-contamination. Seeing people with gloves on touching their phones or their faces makes me cringe.
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Yeah it's definitely a bit tough to swallow some of the guidance about how if you DO wear a mask, be sure to dispose of it because it's definitely not meant for reuse, while my surgeon friends are posting on social media about using the same masks for 5 days in a row.

Granted, they're likely observing more careful protocols than my Aunt Linda pulling down her mask to take a phone call in the Kroger produce section, so it's understandable why WHO just defaults to not recommending usage at all.
 
juiceless said:
I hear you. I'd prefer people thought of me as a carrier, tbh. Maybe they'll stay the hell away from me.
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Better stay away from me too, I might just infect you with my

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Indymisanthrope said:
Yeah it's definitely a bit tough to swallow some of the guidance about how if you DO wear a mask, be sure to dispose of it because it's definitely not meant for reuse, while my surgeon friends are posting on social media about using the same masks for 5 days in a row.

Granted, they're likely observing more careful protocols than my Aunt Linda pulling down her mask to take a phone call in the Kroger produce section, so it's understandable why WHO just defaults to not recommending usage at all.
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I guess the saving grace with Battelle creating their giant UV mask sanitizing trailers is that they are almost literally across the street from the OSU medical center. So at least she may get to have her mask "sanitized" a little faster than the rest of the country.

Also fun fact, my dad, mom, and sister all worked for Battelle.
 
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