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If you've had covid what treatment was used ?

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incognitomum · 30/09/2020 08:36

I've heard there are ways of treating covid now but am not sure what they are?

Has anyone been successfully treated?

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 30/09/2020 08:47

I don't think most people are getting treatment unless necessary, if they've been hospitalized.

OverTheRainbow88 · 30/09/2020 08:48

My friends a doc on ICU in a covid ward, apparently now they try and prevent putting people on a ventilator.

incognitomum · 30/09/2020 09:00

I think it's the possible treatments I must be thinking of. There's some arthritis treatment they've found?

I'd also heard about less ventilation. Thank goodness.

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Flagsfiend · 30/09/2020 09:11

A few months ago it was announced that dexamethasone (a very cheap and widely available steroid) reduced mortality in hospitalised patients who were receiving oxygen (via mask, mechanical ventilation or ECMO), so I imagine that is being widely used in hospitals.

ACautionaryTale · 30/09/2020 09:18

None. Because as in the vast majority of cases it was no worse than a bad cold

incognitomum · 30/09/2020 10:59

@ACautionaryTale yes it is. I meant the ones who get really sick.

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Ponoka7 · 30/09/2020 11:09

People are being treated successfully that were in the same place as those who died in March/April. Doctors have been on television saying so when asked to predict winter.

I've been hospitalised with pneumonia. My friend's partner who was admitted with Covid seems to have had similar treatment, oxygen, corticosteroids and blood thinners. Then antibiotics. They treat the symptoms, but we now know what is counterproductive.

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