Tips For self saving Your life and Recovering from COVID Infection

I read an article shared by a friend recently about the pathogenic mechanism of COVID-19 and tips for survival ( https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9IIdtrqQRGb12tNDR2ED1g). I found the article very interesting, informative, and relevant. So I translated part of the arcticle into English. I hope that you find it helpful. Of course, you should use your own judgment when reading this article shown below.

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The pathogenic mechanism of COVID-19

In general, respiratory viruses, or more specifically COVID-19, have three stages of development. In the first stage, the initial stage of infection, patients experience fatigue and soreness, no appetite, a little cold, etc. At this stage, the virus begins to multiply in the body.

In the second stage, our body starts to fight back. There is a high fever; some people will have a high fever for three or five days. At this stage, the body is desperately trying to clear the virus. As if a war broke out, an excess of free radicals and other inflammatory factors will be produced. They are damaging to the body’s vital organs: heart, lungs, and liver. After the fever the amount of virus in the body is very low which is good, but such an excessive immune response can also damage the body.

In the third stage, various organs of the body are damaged. The symptoms of respiratory failure, heart failure, renal failure, and liver failure will appear. Once the third stage is reached some people will not recover, eventually leading to heart and respiratory failure. At this time a ventilator is just an auxiliary support system and not a treatment. People who are in better health may be able to overcome this, but old people or those in poor health often cannot survive. Therefore, the most important symptomatic treatments occur in the first and second stages.  The key is to find a way to suppress this excessive immune response.

After the patient has a fever the virus itself is no longer the main threat which is why some patients test negative. How can some patients still die? Because even though the virus is mostly killed by our body’s excessive immune response, the body’s organs are also damaged by the immune response and some of that damage may be irreversible. Antiviral drugs at this point are basically useless.

What you should do if you are infected by COVID?

After understanding the mechanism of the disease we know the real culprit: excessive free radicals, especially peroxide. What you should do if you are, unfortunately, infected by COVID? The most important thing you should do to save yourself is to take a lot of antioxidants—vitamin C and E—drink plenty of water, and rest. Some Chinese medicine such as Banlangen, Honeysuckle, Xiao Chai Hu, Coptis Chinensis, etc. are able to suppress an overreaction of your immune system.

Some food you eat can also help to scavenge free radicals (e.g., tomatoes). Lycopene in tomatoes is a natural antioxidant with the strongest antioxidant capacity. The ability of lycopene to quench singlet oxygen free radicals is twice that of β-carotene, or 100 times that of vitamin E. Regular consumption of lycopene can effectively remove excess free radicals, and prevent and repair free radical damage to the human body. Lycopene also has other benefits: anti-cancer, anti-aging effects; prevents cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease; improve immunity, protect cells from disease mutation; canceration, etc.

Tea is also a good free radical scavenger. Tea polyphenols are strong antioxidants which also have anti-aging effects. Research shows that the anti-aging effect of tea polyphenols is 18 times stronger than that of vitamin E.