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COVID-19 Integrative Support in Prevention & Early Interventions

https://www.karenvrchota.com/healthnews/2020/3/22/dr-vrchotas-shortlist-for-covid-19nbspprevention

COVID-19 Integrative Support in Prevention & Early Interventions

By Karen Vrchota, MD

The following is for educational purposes only, and not meant to replace usual medical care. Consult your own practitioner for specific, personal advice.

Looking for a ray of sunshine in this time of COVID-19 fear? While we don’t know everything we need to know, quite a bit of research is emerging with strategies that can support the body’s own immune system in self defense.

When considering possible interventions, I am reminded of a treatment found effective in reducing severity and death rate from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Fresh air, sunshine, good hygiene, and homemade masks were the mainstay in Camp Brooks emergency open-air hospital in Boston, for the treatment of influenza, which significantly reduced serious complications among patients, and decreased infection in medical staff.

Also recall how tuberculosis, one of the most difficult infections to treat, responded well in Sanatoriums to fresh air, sunshine, fun activities, stress reduction, and good nutrition.

Dr. Dean Ornish found that “lifestyle medicine” changed over 500 genes in three months, turning on health giving genes, and turning off disease causing genes. This was accomplished with:

  1. Plant based nutrition, eating 6-8 colorful servings of vegetables and fruit daily.

  2. Meditation 20 minutes twice daily. (I really like Headspace APP.

  3. Exercise 1 hour daily, stretching, strengthening, and aerobics.

  4. Connection with others, sharing about an issue important to you, and listening with empathy when another speaks.

And Pasteur, after arguing all of his life that microbes caused disease, abated, saying “The microbe is nothing, the milieu is everything”. So, be sure to do everything you can to increase general wellness.

In addition to following good hygiene, and social distancing, and bandana over face (maybe sprayed with Argentyn 23) when going out, what can be done to support the body in prevention of viral infection? There are so many resources popping up, including this masterlist of antivirals.

It can be overwhelming to comb through all the information, so here’s my short list of COVID-19 prevention strategies:

  • Vitamin C 1000-3000 mg every 4-6 hours, 3-5x day. Reduce dose for diarrhea. Ascorbic acid crystals or powder 4000mg/tsp 3-5gm dissolved in 12 ounces of water. Drink over 30-60 minutes 4-5 times daily. Use buffered Ascorbate if GI upset occurs.Capsules and tablets work great too, just a little harder to get serum levels high.

  • Zinc 15 mg 3x day-50 mg once daily. Zinc is a known inhibitor of other coronaviruses and may impair the replication of COVID-19. However, zinc is difficult to get into your cells. Supplemental ionospheres could escort zinc into cells, some options being Quercitin 600-1200mg 2x day, or EGCG from green tea or Luteolin or Quinine from tonic water cinchona powder (1 tsp in cup cold water, simmer for 10 minutes, cool, sweeten with stevia and lemon or lime.)

  • Elderberry 1 tsp tincture 3x daily. Studies have found that Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) extracts inhibits infectious bronchitis virus replication. Use early, but discontinue if inflammation is present as it may cause lung problems.

  • Vitamin A with beta carotene 5000-7500IU/day

  • Vitamin E with mixed tocopherol 400IU in morning, and Vitamin E tocotrienols 125 mg in evening to reduce inflammation and support healthy cell membranes. Do not take together, as tocopherols block tocotrienol action.

  • Respirin, a combination of 23 Chinese herbs I have found helpful in every respiratory condition that I have seen in the past 5 years. 3-6 every 8 hours, 15 min before or one hour after food. No experience yet with this virus.

  • ProBoost, Thymic Protein A, has been helpful in immune support for those with viral or bacterial infections. I am taking one 3x/day sublingual, let it dissolve.

  • ViraClear is a homeopathic remedy that may support immune response to respiratory viruses.

If you have an active infection, modify the strategy:

  • Increase Vitamin C to 3-5000mg every 2-4 hours to bowel tolerance. Use Ascorbic Acid if tolerated, used buffered ascobate or EsterC if stomach gets irritated with straight Ascorbic Acid.When the body is sick, it needs more Vitamin C.

In China they found early “high dose” intravenous Rx Vitamin C (12-24 gms infused over 24 hours) given as soon as pneumonia was diagnosed helped shorten the illness and left lungs in a healthier state than those not given IVC.  But other Orthomolecular experts have been using Vitamin C 25-50 gms in sterile water, buffered with calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium chloride, infused over 2-3 hours against many severe viruses similar to Covid-19. Dr. Cheng in Wuhan uses these doses when conditions are desperate, with good success in many cases. Interested physicians and pharmacists could gather more information from this study by Dr. Paul S. Anderson or this protocol established by the Riordan Clinic.

  • Continue zinc,  Quercitin, vitamins A, C, and E tocotrienols. 

  • Stop Elderberry, as it stimulates the production of cytokines and there may be a risk of creating a “cytokine storm” of over activated immune cells that can cause additional tissue damage.

There are studies underway examining a few different prescription treatments:

We are on the cusp of spring, and recent research has shown for every degree of increase in temperature and humidity, there is a corresponding decline in COVID-19 cases. Warm air and sunshine may naturally reduce the spreading of COVID-19. One strategy is to institute social distancing until warm weather is well established, then relax restrictions, and monitor the spread. We won’t really know how much the virus is spreading until there is a cheap, easy test available for everyone.

The best we can do right now is eat whole unprocessed foods, get 8 hours of sleep daily, meditate, exercise, and connect with family and friends outdoors, while following some basic nutritional support. And, as always, consult your integrative practitioner on what course of action may be best for you.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/the-truth-about-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil-in-the-treatment-of-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/12/convalescent-plasma-therapy-tested-on-critically-ill-covid-19-patients/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/28/coronavirus-how-bad-can-it-get-includes-treatments-disulfiram-is-one/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/13/washington-doctors-successfully-treat-coronavirus/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-lyme/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/10/corona-virus-lyme-disease-drs-bock-rawls/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/22/how-to-protect-yourself-your-family-from-infections/

 

 

Category:

Treatment, Viruses

Going Outdoors? Be Aware That Ticks Are Starting to Stir

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/local-perspectives/donna-lugar-going-outdoors-be-aware-that-ticks-are-starting-to-stir-430692/#.XoH6VeE1ChI.linkedin

DONNA LUGAR: Going outdoors? Be aware that ticks are starting to stir

Published: Mar 27 at 4:36 p.m.
Black-legged ticks are shown at different stages of feeding. Black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. FILE PHOTO
Black-legged ticks are shown at different stages of feeding. Black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. FILE PHOTO – Contributed

DONNA LUGAR

With all the talk about COVID-19, don’t forget your tick protection if de-stressing outside

Although ticks can be active at any time of the year when temperatures permit, they are now becoming more active. When spending any time outdoors, please remember to undertake preventative measures and ensure that you are doing your daily tick checks. Although I realize many are presently spending more time indoors, there are people taking this time to work in their yards and spending more time outdoors with their family and pets. As well, with the closure of groomed trails, beaches, etc., many may head to areas less travelled. Prevention is key!

I frequently receive calls and emails from Nova Scotians throughout the province wondering if they may have Lyme disease. One of the first things I suggest is for them to review a symptom list, either from the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation website or from any government website that breaks down the three stages of Lyme. I then suggest that they take the Horowitz Lyme-MSIDS Questionnaire disease, which will give them an idea as to whether they may have Lyme and/or a tick-borne disease. As well, in December of 2019, the following research article was posted in Frontiers in Medicine: The General Symptom Questionnaire-30 (GSQ-30): A Brief Measure of Multi-System Symptom Burden in Lyme Disease. This is a very helpful document for both you and your doctor.

Depending on their score on the Horowitz Questionnaire, I then suggest that they go back to their doctor, if they are lucky enough to have one, and request the ELISA blood test for Lyme. However, I also advise that this test has sensitivity and specificity limitations and a negative test does not necessarily mean they do not have Lyme disease.

Of importance to note, there are treatment guidelines for Lyme disease in this province. Unfortunately, it appears that not all doctors are aware of this. Although these guidelines follow the IDSA Guidelines, which are presently being updated, they do not include what I believe to be a very important caveat included in the actual IDSA guidelines:

“It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular patients or special clinical situations. The Infectious Diseases Society of America considers adherence to these guidelines to be voluntary, with the ultimate determination regarding their application to be made by the physician in the light of each patient’s individual circumstances.”

It is my opinion that this very important caveat should be included within our guidelines and that your doctor knows that it exists.

Another document that exists that many are not aware of is the N.S. Tick Borne Diseases Response Plan. This plan has a lot of important information. It also notes other potential illnesses that can be transmitted. Just be aware that researchers at Dalhousie have found even more and that they have found things in both the black-legged (deer) and dog (wood) ticks.

If you wish to learn more about Lyme and tick-borne diseases there are now YouTube videos available for most of the presentations made at the Bridgewater Lyme Conference on Nov. 16 and 17, 2019. This YouTube channel also has prevention videos and so much more.

As the Nova Scotia representative of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme), you can always reach out to me. My contact info is on the CanLyme website.

On a final note, there is presently a petition making the rounds in Nova Scotia that will hopefully be presented to the Nova Scotia legislature in the fall of this year. There are five asks. If you would be interested in having a copy to help obtain signatures, or are interested in signing, please let me know via donna.lugar@ns.sympatico.ca. The petition is a paper one, as that is what Nova Scotiá’s legislature requires. With the present circumstances, it will take some effort to get a sufficient number of signatures to make the petition worthwhile. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Remember, ticks can be active all year, depending upon temperatures. Bites are usually painless and many are missed; not everyone gets an erythema migrans rash, of which the bull’s eye is just one manifestation.

Prevention is key, but even the most vigilant can miss a tick. Make yourself knowledgeable.

Donna Lugar is the N.S. representative, CanLyme. She lives in Bedford.

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**Comment**

This article does not mention that there are other treatment guidelines in use by ILADS:  https://www.ilads.org/patient-care/ilads-treatment-guidelines/

If doctors follow the IDSA guidelines, treatment will be short term and typically a mono therapy, rather than an overlapping treatment using numerous antimicrobials for Lyme as well as coinfections for a much longer period of time should symptoms warrant it.

Personally, I have found the Horowitz questionnaire to be far more accurate than current 2-tiered CDC testing which depending upon who’s counting, misses over half of all cases: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/06/07/if-youre-testing-for-lyme-disease-heres-what-you-should-know/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/16/laboratory-testing-for-lyme-disease/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/09/12/lyme-testing-problems-solutions/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/01/16/2-tier-lyme-testing-missed-85-7-of-patients-milford-hospital/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/13/direct-test-for-ld-carl-tuttle-chews-up-cdc-spits-them-out/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/12/direct-diagnostic-tests-for-lyme-the-closest-thing-to-an-apology-you-are-ever-going-to-get/

KEY QUOTE: “THESE SEROLOGIC TESTS CANNOT DISTINGUISH ACTIVE INFECTION, PAST INFECTION, OR REINFECTION.”

More on prevention:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/12/tick-prevention-2019/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/18/frequent-prescribed-fires-can-reduce-risk-of-tick-borne-diseases/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/19/are-current-tick-prevention-methods-for-dogs-working/

 

 

 

 

Category:

Lyme, Prevention, Testing, Treatment

A Plausible “Penny” Costing Effective Treatment For Corona Virus – Ozone Therapy

https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-113.php?

A Plausible “Penny” Costing Effective Treatment for Corona Virus – Ozone Therapy

Robert Jay Rowen, MD1,* and Howard Robins, DPM2

DOI: 10.23937/2474-3658/1510113

Abstract

Many viruses require reduced sulfhydryl groups for cell fusion and entry. Corona viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (the cause of the condition now named coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19), are rich in cysteine, which residues must be intact for viral activity. Sulfhydryl groups are vulnerable to oxidation. Ozone therapy, a very inexpensive and safe modality may safely exploit this critical vulnerability in many viruses, inclusive of SARS-CoV-2.

 

http://  Approx. 38 Min

Corona Virus With Dr. Robert Rowen

We covered:

  • Practical steps to prevent and treat Corona Virus with alternatives.
  • The mechanisms of the disease and how understanding those allow us to take effective measures.
  • What is the conventional treatment method and how does an integrative approach differ?
  • How can people get set up with prevention and treatment at home?

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/02/17/dr-jason-west-the-real-cause-of-lyme-disease-the-use-of-ozone-therapy/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/12/04/ozone-ten-pass-lyme-msids-treatment-in-ca/

DrsOzone-Manual-Web

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/ozone-can-be-used-to-destroy-the-new-coronavirus-and-disinfect-areas

 

 

Category:

Treatment, Viruses

Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine in Patients With COVID-19 Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v2?

Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial

Zhaowei Chen, Jijia Hu, Zongwei Zhang, Shan Jiang, Shoumeng Han, Dandan Yan, Ruhong Zhuang, Ben Hu, Zhan Zhang

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758

This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

Abstract

Aims: Studies have indicated that chloroquine (CQ) shows antagonism against COVID-19 in vitro. However, evidence regarding its effects in patients is limited. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of patients with COVID-19.

Main methods: From February 4 to February 28, 2020, 62 patients suffering from COVID-19 were diagnosed and admitted to Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. All participants were randomized in a parallel-group trial, 31 patients were assigned to receive an additional 5-day HCQ (400 mg/d) treatment, Time to clinical recovery (TTCR), clinical characteristics, and radiological results were assessed at baseline and 5 days after treatment to evaluate the effect of HCQ.

Key findings: For the 62 COVID-19 patients, 46.8% (29 of 62) were male and 53.2% (33 of 62) were female, the mean age was 44.7 (15.3) years. No difference in the age and sex distribution between the control group and the HCQ group. But for TTCR, the

  • body temperature recovery time and the cough remission time were significantly shortened in the HCQ treatment group
  • a larger proportion of patients with improved pneumonia in the HCQ treatment group (80.6%, 25 of 32) compared with the control group (54.8%, 17 of 32)
  • Notably, all 4 patients progressed to severe illness that occurred in the control group
  • 2 patients with mild adverse reactions in the HCQ treatment group

Significance: Among patients with COVID-19, the use of HCQ could significantly shorten TTCR and promote the absorption of pneumonia.

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For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/25/what-exactly-is-hydroxychloroquine-the-drug-that-is-being-tested-as-the-first-potential-coronavirus-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/the-truth-about-hydroxychloroquine-plaquenil-in-the-treatment-of-covid-19/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/31/hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-in-80-covid-19-patients/

 

 

Category:

research, Treatment, Viruses

CDC: Centers For Damaged Credibility

https://cnsnews.com/commentary/michelle-malkin/michelle-malkin-cdc-centers-damaged-credibility

COMMENTARY

Michelle Malkin: CDC: Centers for Damaged Credibility

By Michelle Malkin | March 11, 2020
Excerpt:

CDC has one primary job — Disease Control — but has managed to botch it without ever learning from past failures.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

In this astute piece, Malkin outlines CDC past failures:

  • 1976 swine flu scandal whipped up by CDC junk scientists to develop another vaccine that resulted in an increased risk of GBS
  • 1999 CDC misspent $22.7 Million for CFS
  • 2000 CDC lied to congress on how it spent $7.5 Million on hantavirus
  • 2001 CDC squandered $13 Millin for Hepatitis C research
  • 2009 CDC recalled 800,000 doses of swine flu vaccine – failed potency tests
  • 2012 CDC leaked anthrax, SARS, monkeypox – faulty airflow system
  • 2014 CDC’s lack of response to Ebola exposed travelers.  $15 Million worth of isolation chambers sat in a warehouse
  • CDC continues fear campaign pushing people to get flu shot using flawed data (read:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-if-they-lied-then-why-wouldnt-they-lie-now/)
  • 2020 CDC lies about vaccines causing autism – continues to smear critics
I would like to add to this list (although this is hardly a conclusive list):
  • 2009 CDC finds hardly any cases of Swine Flu was Swine Flu or any sort of flu – but hides it from public
  • 2009 CDC stops counting Swine Flu cases yet miraculously estimates there are 22 MILLION cases fear-mongering the public into getting vaccinated
  • 2012 CDC states Morgellons is not infectious – just cotton fibers. To this day they will not accept independent researching showing borrelia involvement.
  • 2015 CDC scientist admits vaccine authors destroyed evidence of harm caused by MMR vaccine
  • 2016 CDC states there is insufficient evidence that Zika causes microcephaly, but weeks later, after plopping it into “Shepherd’s’ criteria” they magically announce it does (despite it meeting only 3 of 7 criteria)
  • 2016 CDC scientists create group SPIDER (Scientists Preserving Integrity, Diligence and Ethics in Research) and cite numerous scandals involving scientific corruption within CDC
  • 2017 CDC spends $222 million on Zika based on one autopsy – but runs out of money and begs for more
  • 2017 CDC completely ignores research showing 5 out of 5 brains of children with autism have high levels of aluminum
  • CDC uses front groups (NACCHO, ECBT, AAP, IAC) to combat health freedom
  • 2020 CDC refuses accurate COVID-19 tests, insists on using its own. To this day does not have an accurate test, thereby making all U.S. numbers meaningless due to faulty testing
  • 2020 CDC Dr. Fauci secures $2 billion for COVID-19 vaccine, despite research on the SARS vaccine showing poor outcomes – even deaths, fast tracks COVID-19 vaccine (bypassing animal testing, and using limited human testing). Even vaccine proponents are worried.
  • 2020 CDC breaks basic principle of medicine. Whenever there is a death and COVID-19 is detected, the virus is automatically assigned as the cause of death giving a false high death rate. 
  • 2020 CDC continues to downplay Lyme/MSIDS pandemic
  • CDC refuses to acknowledge research showing persistent infection
  • CDC continues to push their outdated and flawed testing
  • CDC vilifies any lab doing testing other than the ones they approve of
  • CDC continues to push their unscientific, flawed guidelines
  • CDC continues to publish flawed data on their website
  • CDC only admits correct facts when a vaccine is being prepared to illicit public demand
  • CDC uses editorials written by industry doctors to fast track a Lyme vaccine which would have little success without assistance
  • CDC’s Paul Mead used his position to push a Lyme vaccine
  • CDC used taxpayer dollars to finance the racketeering scheme identified in the Lisa Torey vs IDSA lawsuit registered in Texas District Court
This information should cause everyone to question the CDC’s stance everything – including COVID-19. They have a long, long history of fraud, deception, and conflicts of interest.  True to form – they are manufacturing and pushing a COVID-19 vaccine.

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/29/dr-fauci-pushes-for-covid-19-vaccine-despite-research-showing-vaccinated-may-get-sicker-and-even-die-lab-animals-got-sicker-too/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/us-govt-johnson-johnson-prep-for-1-billion-coronavirus-vaccine-doses-implantable-tattoos-google-app-to-monitor-people/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/03/27/cdcs-deadly-testing-fiasco-centralization-of-public-health-authority-a-threat-to-national-security/

Category:

Activism, Lyme, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses