Page 32 - HOH

Thursday 19 March 2020 HEALTH
A24

Retreat and Advance

By Carlos M Viana veoli. The alveoli fill with fluid or pus,
Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN) making it difficult to breathe.
SANTA CRUZ - For many it felt like Today, we know that with the 1918
the end of the world. The Great pandemic, many died because of
Depression began in 1929 and aspirin. In a 2009 paper published
quickly spread worldwide. By 1932, in the journal Clinical Infectious
one of every four workers were un- Diseases, Karen Starko conclud-
employed. Banks failed and life ed that aspirin poisoning contrib-
savings were lost, leaving many uted substantially to the fatalities.
people destitute. With no job and She based this on the symptoms
no savings, thousands of Ameri- in those dying from the flu, as re-
cans lost their homes. Republican ported in the postmortem reports
U.S. President Hoover decided the still available. The timing of the big
government could do nothing to “death spike” in October 1918oc-
help. The poor lived in cardboard curred shortly after the Surgeon
shacks in so-called Hoovervilles General of the U.S. Army and the
on the edges of cities across the Journal of the American Medical
nation; hundreds of thousands Association both recommended
roamed the country on foot and in large doses of 8 to 31 grams of as-
railroad boxcars in futile search of pirin per day as part of treatment.
jobs. Although few starved, hunger Complications of taking aspirin in-
and malnutrition affected many. clude low blood sugar, seizures,
swelling of the brain or lungs and
With the nation at its peak of the heart failure.
Great Depression, fed up with their Severe acute respiratory syndrome
uncaring president, the United (SARS) and heart failure is also
States elected Franklin D. Roos- why people die from COVID 19.
evelt on March 4, 1933. He started The initial symptoms of COVID 19
his inauguration speech by say- are flu-like and may include fever,
ing “So, first of all, let me assert my headache, muscle pain, tiredness,
firm belief that the only thing we cough, sore throat, and other non-
have to fear is...fear itself — name- specific symptoms. The only symp-
less, unreasoning, unjustified terror tom common to all patients ap- found that severely ill flu patients Get the Point! American author,
which paralyzes needed efforts to pears to be a fever above 38 °C nursed outdoors recovered better Andrew Smith wrote - “People
convert retreat into advance”. (100 °F). SARS may eventually lead than those treated in an indoor, fear what they cannot understand
We are entering a global stress to shortness of breath and pneu- closed environment. A combina- and what they cannot control.”
that is, in many, producing fears. monia, either direct viral pneumo- tion of fresh air and sunlight seems We can control how we are fac-
The world has been in this situa- nia or secondary bacterial pneu- to have prevented deaths among ing the COVID 19 pandemic! With
tion many times already and we monia patients, and infections among good hygiene, public distancing,
survived. Another global pandem- At home, we are planning not to medical staff. There is scientific minimizing time spent in tightly
ic, the 1918 influenza lasted from use any aspirin, paracetamol, ibu- support for this. Research shows closed (air-conditioned or heated
January 1918 until December 1920; profen, or other medication for that outdoor air is a natural disin- buildings), take this time home to
was an unusually deadly influenza fever or pain. Thankfully acupunc- fectant. Fresh air can kill the flu virus prepare healthier meals and add
pandemic. It was the first of the ture works wonders on headaches. and other harmful germs. Equally, immune support vitamins like C,
two pandemics involving the H1N1 The natural medicine reduction sunlight is germicidal and there is D3and zinc. For headache resist,
influenza virus, with the second of fever has for centuries been now evidence it can kill the flu vi- aspirin and try an enema for fever,
being the swine flu in 2009. Peo- an enema. Our choice is the old- rus. Sunlight increases Vitamin D get outside for a walk, open a win-
ple died during these pandemics fashioned red bag and white tube. levels and there are many medical dow, enjoy your garden, a park or
from pneumonia and heart failure. Warm, clean water slowly flowing journal articles reporting the anti- the sea while the crowds are low.
Pneumonia is an infection in one into the anus provides rehydrating viral effect of vitamin D. Unfortu- Remember to check on those in
or both lungs caused by bacteria, water and will help reduce fevers. nately, many people today have need. Focusing on safely helping
viruses, and fungi. The infection We also learn from the 1918 pan- low levels of vitamin D3, which not others, keeps us from focusing on
causes inflammation in the air sacs demic about what doctors called, only strengthens bone health, but fear. Time to Advance. We will get
in your lungs, which are called al- the ‘open-Air’ treatment. Medics is showing immune system support. through this too.q