Sharing this on behalf of a friend - CORONA Common Sense

Since they are calling on Respiratory therapists to help fight the Covid, and I’m a retired one, too old to work in a hospital setting. I'm gonna share some wisdom with those that have the virus and are staying at home.1/

This advice will improve your chances of not ending up in the hospital on a ventilator. 1. Only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high; Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen, etc, will bring your fever down allowing the virus to live longer. 2/

Gatorade with real sugar, or pedialyte with real sugar for kids, works well. Why the sugar? Sugar will give your body back the energy it is using up to create the fever. The electrolytes and fluid you’re losing will also be replenished by the Gatorade./6

5. Once the fever breaks, start moving around to get the body back in shape and blood circulating. 6. Deep breath on a regular basis, even when it hurts. If you don't it becomes easy to develope pneumonia. Pursed lip breathing really helps./9

They are saying that ibuprophen, advil etc will actually exacerbate the virus. Use common sense and don't let fever go over 103 or 104 if you got the guts. If it gets higher than that take your tylenol, or acetaminophen, to keep it regulated.3/

It helps to keep house warm and cover up with blankets so your body does not have to work so hard to generate heat. It usually takes about 3 days of this to break the fever. 2. The body is going to dehydrate with the elevated temperature so you must rehydrate regularly. /4

If you don't do this and end up in the hospital they will start an IV and give you D5W (sugar water) and Normal Saline to replenish electrolytes. Gatorade is much cheaper, pain free, and comes in an assortment of flavors. /5

3. You must keep your lungs moist. Best done by taking long steamy showers regularly, if your wheezing or congested use a real minty toothpaste and brush your teeth while taking the steamy shower and deep breath through your mouth for bronchial dialation and loosen phlegm./7

Force your self to cough into a wet wash cloth pressed firmly over your mouth and nose, which will cause greater pressure in your lungs forcing them to expand more and break loose more of the congestion. 4. Eat healthy and regularly. Gotta keep your strength up./8

That's breathing in deep and slow then exhaling through tight lips as if your blowing out a candle, blow until you have completely emptied your lungs and you will be able to breath in an even deeper breath. This helps keep lungs expanded as well as increase your oxygen level./10

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