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tita gwen when asked about tuob for covid prevention: https://twitter.com/ironicallyianna/status/1275427823616835590
Tu-ob, or steam inhalation, while commonly used in local traditional medicine, has already been proven to help in alleviating certain repiratory illness (particularly cold-like symptoms). However, no studies yet have tested it’s effects to covid-19 (1/4) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3303983/
Assuming SARS-cov-2 would be affected in the same way, I found a study that tested a similar principle of tu-ob and its effects to viral shedding of rhinovirus (2/4) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15106160/
The study however found that there was no difference in viral shedding for persons who receive and did not receive the treatment. Now what does this imply given our assumption? (3/4)
This means that applying tuob to a covid-19 patient may not affect the amount of virus expelled out of the body.
Now, this is just me doing a quick literature search. tell me if you found more recent ones
(4/4)
Now, this is just me doing a quick literature search. tell me if you found more recent ones
(4/4)
