Prepping for a virus situation

[PaulW]

Best advice of all: wash your hands properly! I've been doing it all wrong.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p084zgcf/...ands-wrong

Helpful with lots of other afflictions too, like influenza.

[Guest]

Is anyone really going to trust, put your health, and possible life, on this 1 meter line?

[Punatic007]

Newer evidence suggests that it also plays a major role regulating the immune system, perhaps including immune responses to viral infection. Interventional and observational epidemiological studies provide evidence that vitamin D deficiency may confer increased risk of influenza and respiratory tract infection.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308600/

I think we all also know that daily zinc supplementation as well as Vitamin C can help with virus prevention.

In summary, add to coronavirus shopping list:

Vitamin D(works best with Vitamin K added)
Vitamin C
Zinc

Say safe everyone, Puna Strong!

[Durian Fiend]

So they say aerosol transmission can occur when exposed to a high concentration of aerosol in a relatively closed environment for a long time.

Kissing ban in effect as of now! And those long trans Pacific flights? Those surgical masks are starting to sound not so bad after all.

[PaulW]

Vitamin supplements are a complete and utter waste of money, do not fall for it.

[kander]

Your shopping list may include things like
Vitamin C
Expectorants
Vitamin D
Oxygen saturation meter
Blood pressure cuff.
Stethoscope (so you can hear whats happening in the lungs)
oxygen concentration machine (in case o2 dips)
Antibiotics of some sort (even penicillin would work to help stave off secondary infections Ie bacterial in the lung)
Emergency Heart defibrillator. if people in your family have heart issues
High protein meaty soups and stews. Easy to digest and easy to feed.

Plus a good knowledge of how to help loosen the phlegm from the lungs should anyone in your family become sick.

This is not to be taken as medical advice I am not a Medical Dr. But if the hospitals are full (and they will be) and your at home it will be something that you might have to do to save the lives around you. Perhaps even your own.
This of course will not help the most severe cases which require an actual breathing machine. If the concentration machine can not keep o2 blood saturation above a certain point 85% or so, the time for that person is nigh.

Let me make this clear, I do not have a Doctorate in the medical field. So take my advice for whatever its worth. This is my official disclaimer. There is still precious time to prepare, Time and distance from others is key.

[Guest]

quote:

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Originally posted by PaulW

Vitamin supplements are a complete and utter waste of money, do not fall for it.

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Said with such authority. I am impressed. Where did you get your degree?

I might add, in my younger days I tended to agree with that idea, whereas now with longer experience and an older body that is not as invincible as it was I find that statement to be utter nonsense. I can give all sorts of details, and a long story about a few years of medical sleuthing, and all the while suffering a lot of pain and other dysfunctions to find out that there are inherent vitamin and mineral deficiencies in a food based diet no matter how hard we try. That certain elements are just no longer in our foods and must be compensated for.

As such imo, and based upon my personal experiences, vitamin supplements can play a part in ones overall healthcare, and should not be discounted as much as further consideration given to their use.

[PaulW]

Where did you get your degree, glindakine?
Your personal experience is not relevant.
Healthy people eating normal food have zero need for all those vitamin supplements being pushed by the “health” stores.
At best they are a (very expensive) placebo, at worse the overuse will cause side effects.

https://www.sciencealert.com/are-vitamin...-acid-zinc

[Guest]

Yeah well, you can say all you want. But hey, I spent two years in hospital settings, and was on the verge of major life changing surgery, and it turned out that the entire problem was a deficiency, solved overnight by a simple, 2 dollar, supplement found in our local natch..

So say all you want, express your anger, your hate, your distain for humanity to all.. but dude, you are wrong. Simple as that. You are wrong, and your anger and distain for others keeps you from being able to see or acknowledge it.

Sad.

[Rob Tucker]

So what? Evrybody has different opinions.