Coronavirus Treatment

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Coronavirus treatment

How is coronavirus treated? Let's understand on the basis of what is already known by now.

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How is coronavirus treated? Let's understand on the basis of what is already known by now.

Can coronavirus in humans be treated?

Coronavirus infection is caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Until scientists and doctors invented a cure specifically for him. With a mild course, the disease goes away on its own, the human immunity copes with it. In this case, it is worth being treated at home and self-isolating so as not to infect others. The corresponding recommendations are given in the USA and Great Britain, and now the Moscow Department of Health has put forward them. In accordance with them, the patient can not be hospitalized if his temperature is below 38.5 degrees, the frequency of breaths is less than 30 per minute (that is, there is no shortness of breath), and breathing is free.

If a person has a dry cough and a slight fever, but does not have shortness of breath, the main thing is to isolate him from others. To do this, sick people need to stay at home, reduce social contacts to a minimum, stock up on food and all the necessary things in order to visit stores as little as possible. All this will help reduce the outbreak of the disease.

But do not forget about loved ones who are with a sick coronavirus in the same apartment. To reduce the risk of infection, it is worth ventilating the room, moving the patient to a separate room (if possible), using separate dishes and towels, washing everyone's hands thoroughly, and cleaning more often (it is especially important to decontaminate door handles, switches, toilet and bathroom). The sick person should be asked to sneeze and cough into the elbow, as well as use a mask in direct contact with healthy people.

If a person develops life-threatening symptoms that indicate a severe course of the disease, he is sent for treatment to a hospital.

Treatment method

How is hospital treated

Doctors can help stop dangerous complications from coronavirus, such as severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome. Most often they occur in the risk group - older people and with chronic diseases, and occur in about 20% of all those infected with coronavirus.

For the treatment of such consequences of a respiratory infection, ventilators are used.

If we talk about drugs, the World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend the use of glucocorticoids in patients with pneumonia from coronavirus unless there are other indications, for example, exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, the WHO does not consider it necessary to abandon ibuprofen in the treatment of high fever and replace it with paracetamol for COVID-19.

How effective is the treatment

There is no specific treatment for coronavirus infection, therefore, its effectiveness cannot be evaluated. In the most severe cases, the coronavirus damages healthy lung tissue, making it difficult to deliver oxygen to the blood. Severe pneumonia can develop, as well as a potentially fatal condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome that can damage other organs. Ventilators deliver oxygen to the lungs of patients with these severe respiratory problems through a tube inserted into the throat. This allows you to save time for a person and wait for his body to overcome the infection itself. So far, this is the most effective treatment for symptoms in severe stages of COVID-19.

Can coronavirus be cured with folk remedies?

No you can not! It seems that the most popular remedy among Russians for viral infections is garlic. They eat it, put it on like a necklace for children and spread it all over the apartment. But to date, doctors and scientists have not found any evidence of its effectiveness in treating COVID.

Some people believe that regularly rinsing their nose with sea water will save them from coronavirus. But even this is not able to protect the cells in the nose from the penetration of the virus or flush it out of the sinuses.

It is definitely not necessary (and even very dangerous!) To try to achieve sterility of the whole body with alcohol or bleach. These substances cannot do anything with a virus that has already entered the body. And when applied to the entire body, eyes, mouth and other mucous membranes can be damaged.

Hot or cold frosty air is also powerless against a virus that has entered the human body. At any ambient temperature, it almost always keeps 36.5-37 ° C. Therefore, the virus will not disappear in a well-steamed bath, but if you overdo it, you can get burns to the body.

And the last thing. Antiviral drugs, immunomodulators, herbs, vitamins and dietary supplements do not cure coronavirus in humans. Their effectiveness has not been proven by research, so you will be wasting your money. You should not believe the advertisements and buy Arbidol, vitamin C, echinacea or Kagocel for the treatment of coronavirus.

Is there a vaccine?

Not yet, but it is being actively developed by various companies, including Russian ones. Unfortunately, the process is not very fast. Currently, individual manufacturers have already entered the clinical trials phase. This is largely due to the fact that certain solutions have already been found during other epidemics of coronaviruses that have come from China in this century. Let's not forget that the production process itself also takes time. WHO claims that the world can receive the first vaccines against coronavirus in 18 months (starting point - February).

How many days does the treatment take?

There is a saying that a cold disappears in 7 days if it is not treated, and in a week if it is treated. But the coronavirus is not a simple SARS, the situation is different here. With a mild course, COVID-19 lasts about 2 weeks, sometimes more. A severe course of the disease can drag on for an even longer period.

Attention! It is believed that the time from the moment of infection to the onset of symptoms can take up to two weeks, but most often this occurs within 5 days. However, it is important to stay at home and stay in quarantine for 14 days, especially if you come from countries where outbreaks of coronavirus began earlier, or could communicate with carriers of the virus.