WHO Guidlines on home treatment of Corona Virus

[K9medic]

Just been sent a link to the WHO guidlines on how to treat suspected corona virus patients at home.

www.who.int/publications-detail/home-care-for-patients-with-suspected-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-presenting-with-mild-symptoms-and-management-of-contacts

Have had time for anything more than a quick squint at it, be intrested in other opinions

Here’s the link.

At the moment i feel as though i am holding my breath, waiting.

I am planning to pick some nettles to dehydrate. They are packed full of amino acids and can be up to 25% of plant proteins per dried weight. They also have lots of Vitimins and trace elements.

My dd has just realised that when i make sag paneer or other spinich rich foods that i use about a third of nettles. This time of year they are just growing and are young and tender, but gloves are needed as they are very well fortified with their stings!

I will have a look at what other foragings i can do for this time of year. We will definatly be tapping the sap of Silver Birch trees as that makes a lovely vitimin rich syrup. All of the plants are waking up early this year, so that is a bonus!

Oops wrong thread

But still useful information

I second that

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V basic summary from WHO:

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus@DrTedros (WHO director-general)

To reduce your risk from the new #coronavirus infection:

-if you are sick, stay at home;
eat & sleep separately from your family;
use different utensils & cutlery to eat

-if you develop shortness of breath, call your doctor & seek care immediately

Does anyone know what can be done if it gets you bad and you are short of breath? What can the hospital do?

As an asthmatic, I’ve just upped my daily steroid inhaler dose. Usually I’d be decreasing in spring but not this year.

i think you would be given oxygen therapy, possibly aided by pressure machine if more severe, maybe nebuliser, and poss antibiotics for pneumonia which may accompany.
with specialist physiotherapy to help lung function.
there are well-established methods for treating respiratory problems.
but the problem is if there are many more cases than usual, due to the virus, as there is no spare capacity in uk hospitals, and staff are likely to be absent themselves due to infection.
if it got really bad, ie high numbers needing medical care, there would have to be rationing, based on not who is most ill, but on who is most likely to recover.
so the elderly, ill, weak, immuno-suppressed are rightly worried.
i get annoyed when i hear mostly fit youngish men say, oh its only like the flu, and only the old and ill are at real risk; as if they dont matter. a them and us mentality. i'm alright jack attitude. othering indeed.
everyones health depends on everyone else.
no wonder some of us feel particularly vulnerable, knowing what some people are like, and how hospitals actually function.
please everyone take a wide precautionary approach, and let us do our best, for one and all.

Treatment for seriouse cases depends on what it is doing to the patient.

There is not a lot of good information yet (the dr with direct knowledge are still trying to save lives at this stage rather than publish results) but often the patient relapses with seconadry organ failure, rather than just breathing problems. So treatment in these cases would focus on the organs effected.

What a lot of young fit invincible and immortal people tend to forget is with some pandemics the cytokine storm effect hit the fittest members of society hardest.

The WHO advice here in a Dr Alton video. As always with Dr A, this is for a US audience and his face lift is a bit distracting (I have a general policy of being sceptical about anyone who has "work" for cosmetic reasons but ...

This seems to be more about attempting to stop the ill person infecting other people in their household than actually treating the illness.

Is it something you treat like 'flu:

• lots of fluids (whether lucozade/lemonade/ORS etc)
• paracetamol +/- ibuprofen
• maybe gycerin/honey & lemon / other soothing things for a sore throat/dry cough [I know there's limited evidence re effectiveness of cough medicines]
• are people going to be ill enough for long enough that they'll need to be fed by spoon? Or is it likely to be ok to leave people who are ill and not hungry alone until they're feeling a bit better before offering them food?

How do you treat shortness of breath at home?

The only stuff I've read about that over the years suggests:

• calming the anxiety someone who is short of breath might be feeling by having a fan blowing gently at them so they feel a breeze
• breathing exercises of the sort aimed at people with COPD
• careful positioning to make breathing easier
• caffeine (I know of asthmatics who use this to help when they're struggling to breathe)

Only other things I can think of aren't things that'd be readily accessible, without a doctor's intervention, even if they would help eg. sabutatmol inhalers / CPAP machines as for sleep apnoea