Posted on 03/17/2020 7:07:40 AM PDT by metmom
Scientists and senior doctors have backed claims by France’s health minister that people showing symptoms of covid-19 should use paracetamol (acetaminophen) rather than ibuprofen, a drug they said might exacerbate the condition.
The minister, Oliver Veran, tweeted on Saturday 14 March that people with suspected covid-19 should avoid anti-inflammatory drugs. “Taking anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen, cortisone . . .) could be an aggravating factor for the infection. If you have a fever, take paracetamol,” he said.
His comments seem to have stemmed in part from remarks attributed to an infectious diseases doctor in south west France. She was reported to have cited four cases of young patients with covid-19 and no underlying health problems who went on to develop serious symptoms after using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the early stage of their symptoms. The hospital posted a comment saying that public discussion of individual cases was inappropriate.
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I hate Tylenol but it does make sense. The Spanish Flu was made worse by use of aspirin
Now everyone will flock to the stores to get their Tylenol!
Other reports say that steroids (cortisone) can be used to treat the virus.
Hmm can we still use black tar heroin via Mexico and Fentynal from China? Who is going to care for all the street addicts? The government? Tylenol will help with a fever all sarcasm aside.
Ibuprofen/Advil/Motrin/Aleve are NSAIDs which are anti-inflammatory and work by suppressing the immune response (which usually causes swelling).
Sounds like they’re thinking it’s also stopping the body from fighting the virus.
From what I read these 4 victims had taken massive or large doses...which would be what many people would try to combat severe symptoms before ending up in the hospital
So how typical are they of the millions who had no such reaction?
So I gotta question the science here
Well there goes my hypothesis!
The fever is what fights the virus.
The question does the fever get too high that it can kill?
Bkmrk.
105 plus when I was 10, they put me in Bathtub full of ICE!!
But Tylenol is a fever reducer too
It’s becoming very clear our reaction to the Wuhan Virus is going to be far worse than the actual flu itself! The whole country, and frankly most of the entire world, is running around like chickens with their heads cut off!
The article did say this....
‘But Jean-Louis Montastruc, a professor of medical and clinical pharmacology at the Central University Hospital in Toulouse, said that such deleterious effects from NSAIDS would not be a surprise given that since 2019, on the advice of the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products, French health workers have been told not to treat fever or infections with ibuprofen.
Experts in the UK backed this sentiment. Paul Little, a professor of primary care research at the University of Southampton, said that there was good evidence “that prolonged illness or the complications of respiratory infections may be more common when NSAIDs are used—both respiratory or septic complications and cardiovascular complications.”’
I have also heard that taking aspirin, as they did during the Spanish flu, contributed to its mortality rate. So it seems that this advice is not necessarily specific to COVID.
This is just something for others to consider as there’s no sense in making things worse for yourself.
And your contribution to the medical recommendations is what exactly?
Does this mean aspirin ?
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It does but it’s not the same class of drugs.
Aspirin and ibuprofen are in the same drug family. They are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. That’s why they suggest that if someone is allergic to aspirin they avoid ibuprofen and naproxen as well
Tylenol is not.
I’m guessing.
Keep reading.
This article somewhat contradicts itself. Actually, Ibuprofen reduces swelling which can help the throat and lungs. The article says: “The finding in two randomised trials that advice to use ibuprofen results in more severe illness or complications helps confirm that the association seen in observational studies is indeed likely to be causal.”
So, which is it?
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