Treatments For Covid-19

There are a few treatments available in conventional medicine to patients who are ill with Covid-19 and/or who have tested positive. Most are sent home to quarantine for 14 days with no guidance or recommendations. Unfortunately, some will go on to develop a more severe version of the disease and develop complications. These patients will present to the hospital for treatment for which there are just a few options. Other forms of care are focused primarily on managing complications such as blood clotting and shortness of breath.  These treatments include blood thinners, respiratory therapy and oxygen therapy.

One treatment approved by the FDA to treat Covid-19 is Remdesivir which is only available to hospitals. This means you must wait until the illness becomes severe enough to be admitted.  What is missing is information on treatments that have been available to us since the beginning of this pandamic and have been used to treat and prevent the flu every year. These therapies are used early on and focus on strengthening the immune system to avoid a high viral load. If the viral count is kept low, you can recover fully in just a few days or may not experience symptoms at all. What is missing in mainstream media and in your doctor’s office is the education on how the immune system works to combat viruses, and the prevention of becoming ill from any flu virus.

Viral Infections and the Immune System

We experience the most amount of fear when faced with the unknown. With understanding comes courage. Unfortunately, our primary and secondary education did not include any immune system or microbiology classes. You would have learned this in college if you chose a major in healthcare. Even some branches in health care offer little clinical education in immune system function. So when faced with a pandamic and the only education provided to the general public is the media, fear spreads like wildfire. Integrative practitioners and front line doctors have been talking about how to strengthen the immune system since the beginning. They have also discussed early on treatments. One medication, Ivermectin even made it to the U.S. senate, and is now being prescribed by any physician who chooses to treat Covid patients. Unfortunately, most conventional family doctors send the patient home with no protocol to follow. Many recover fine but it can drag on for a few weeks and they may experience chronic fatigue or other sequela long after the illness. Patients who have weak immune systems may contract covid-19 again or the flu virus and fall ill a second time. However, when treatment is given early on, the patient recovers in just a few days and are back to normal within a week. They also leave the illness educated on how to prevent getting sick with the flu or Covid-19 again. These patients tend to educate their loved ones, thus impacting the pandamic through empowerment and knowledge, not through fear.

The immune system has several front lines with which to fight bacterial and viral infections. The first line is secretory IgA which in a healthy person is abundant along the oral pharynx and into the digestive tubes. The tubes (nasal and digestive) are considered to be “outside of the body”. Inside the body, many more military reside both in the blood and tissues scavenging for anything foreign. Natural Killer Cells, macrophages and basophils are known has general killers and make up our innate immune system. These cells do not have to recognize a specific antigen to attack. They constantly ciruculate in our blood and tissues to attack at first sight a microbe or foreign body. T and B cells are trained to identify specific markers and lock and key them once identified. These are trained through the adaptation of our immune system due to past exposure to pathogens. It is important to allow the immune system to be exposed and adapt its military to the ever changing strains of microbes. Years ago, it was encouraged to stop prescribing antibiotics for the flu as this was causing bacterial resistance. The flu is now managed for its symptoms while the immune system goes to work.

Covid-19 is a flu virus with mutation abilities. It is a novel virus which brings about unique complications that were not seen before. This brought about much fear throughout the world. However, when treated early the immune system is able to keep the viral load down, thus avoiding the complications that further compromise the patient. With early activation, the patient can be well in days without long term sequela which has been seen in hospitilized patients after being discharged.

If a patient is aware of the first signs of covid-19 such as the sore throat and headache, treatment can begin. Our treatments are individualized to the patient’s comorbidities and epigenetic factors. These help us determine how aggressive we need to be in preventing the more serious complications of pneumonia and blood clots. Covid-19 presents with two stages of illness, thus our treatments are based on how many days since onset of symptoms. The PCR test means little to our protocol since the protocol also helps the patient recover quickly from the flu virus. By treating early on, the complications such as shortness of breath can be avoided or minimized. We can prevent blood clots and fluid from building up in the lungs. Our experience is that if patients are treated within the first 7 days, they recover quickly once the treatment is initiated.

For patients who are further along in the Covid-19 disease process, or who choose to be more aggressive in combatting the virus, or for those who are generally in poor health we offer vitamin C, hydrogen peroxide and ozone IV therapies. These in office treatments powerfully assist the innate immune system in neutralizing anaerobic bacteria and viruses. These infusions are recommended to patients who are further along in the disease process to avoid hospitilization. We also encourage those in poor health who contract the flu or covid-19 virus to get these treatments as soon as possible in order to avoid complications and hospitilization. We find that once a patient is hospitilized for the flu or Covid-19, the recovery is slow and there is often long term sequela. Rapid immune system activation achieved through early treatment may prevent the long term sequela such as slight shortness of breath, chronic fatigue and musculoskeletal pain.

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The products and services discussed regarding Covid-19 are solely to enhance immune function or help manage symptoms and are not offered to prevent or cure the novel infection cause by SARS-CoV-2. Our clinical experience suggests that products or services offered may mitigate the consequences and alleviate some of the complications of the illness. The FDA has not approed these therapies expressly for ure in Covid-19 or any viral disease and suggested use may be “off-label” or may lack approal for and are not intended to treat any disease indiation but only offer symptomatic relief. While there is evidence supporting such use, that evidence may not rise to the level neessary for acceptance by medial associations, health institutions, or regulatory bodies. There may be active professional disagreement and some professionals and regulatory bodies may be of the opinion that soome recommendations are not helpful or inappropriate.