I returned from Southeast Asia February 26th and had a physical on March 1 with high blood pressure. I have never had high blood pressure in my life. It went away and I did nothing.
I had extreme symptoms after spending the Chinese New Year celebrating in packed Chinatown, Bangkok Thailand.
Dry cough and shortness of breath was horrible. I took Benadryl and Ibuprofen with no help.
But due to heading into remote Thailand and Laos by extensive travel on the Mekong River, I started taking anti malaria medication for the next 5 weeks of travel.
The dry cough and shortness of breath cleared up and did not return.
The sudden high blood pressure surprised me and my Dr. wanted to put me on medication it was so high. I said no. One week later it was normal with no medication and has remained normal ever since.
Just wow.
I don’t know about the high blood pressure but there’s steam coming out of my ears.
There is absolutely no evidence that anyone should stop their blood pressure or heart failure medications thad include ace inhibitors or ace receptor blockers but doing so could put your health in immediate jeopardy. Do not stop medication without at least talking to your physician
Ok so this answers a question properly someone asked me a while adon. It’s not the HTN. Is the ACEi
This makes sense. If on and ACEi there is an up regulation of the number of receptors. Is this is the channel it does in then ACEi May contribute to viral load which contributes to severity.
It’s the medication according to this not the actual hypertension
There is an Italian study done....for all deaths (around a thousand they reviewed out of Italy)....for folks under age 65, the vast number (around 80-percent) were male. Over the age of 65....it was lessened to around 60-percent male. Almost all of the group from the age under age 65....had contributing conditions (diabetes, blood pressure, lung issues, etc). Only .7-percent had no contributing condition.
Good anecdotal information. How high was your temporary high blood pressure reading?
Nice to see they’re getting around to figuring out that Coronavirus doesn’t take blood pressure measurements when deciding who to attack - but rather responds to the chemistry of the person.
Over the past two months I’ve been asking how Coronavirus knows who has high blood pressure and who doesn’t, considering that usually there aren’t other symptoms are chemical changes in people, due to high blood pressure alone.
It’s like pulling teeth to get these ‘experts’ to come out of their normalcy bias.
Medicine is not an exact science. What is deemed appropriate and true, often changes over time.
Much information has been collected but not properly analyzed regarding the COVID-19 virus. The big question is since ACE 2 receptors are thought to be the portal of entry fpr the virus, what is the effect on patients who use ACE inhibitors such as enalapril or ARBs such as valsartan. On one hand it is thought that those drugs may increase the number of ACE2 sites and make infection more likely. Yet these drugs might block or biochemically alter the sites to make infection less likely. A careful retrospective analysis of the data may give an answer. Years later the basic science may give an explanation. For now the FDA is recommending that people prescribed those drugs continue to take them.
Thanks for posting. A vehicle for...
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INFORMATION/HEALTH/LIFE BUMP!
Ralph Baric, PhD, perked up when he saw that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 illness, enters the lungs through ACE2 receptors, and that people with hypertension have worse outcomes than those with any other underlying condition.
Yeah there’s a Definite Connection
I keep seeing a MILLION articles Everywhere posted by Faggots who are Terrified of Everything and my Blood Pressure Goes Way The #### up!!
PING
Check out article and # 1.
I am just going to throw this out here, because it should be further investigated. All the blood pressure medication recalls last year...some supposedly for ‘cancer links’ and others for “chemical contaminants.” See: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/blood-pressure-medication-recall/story?id=59585424
How many of these recalled drugs were made in China? And if the drugs were contaminated is there a corollary to Sars-Cov-2 making people more susceptible than normal?
That is a weird story. Those malaria drugs may just have saved your bacon?
Your transient respiratory symptoms while traveling in SE Asia could have been due entirely to mold exposure. Extremely common, especially when traveling in areas of high humidity (river trip) where mold is prevalent. If you were traveling by air prior to arrival, the transient low humidity on board the aircraft can temporarily dry out your respiratory system which then increases your sensitivity to mold spores once you are out of the airplane. It is very common to fly into a city with a moist climate and within minutes after leaving the airplane, a persistent cough and respiratory reaction occurs that doesn’t go away until you return home. You don’t mention any symptoms that are indicative of a viral infection.
> “I heard Dr. Oz on Fox News state that the virus enters the cell through the same channel as the blood pressure medicine. i.e the ACE2 receptors.”
The above is true.
> “”But due to heading into remote Thailand and Laos by extensive travel on the Mekong River, I started taking anti malaria medication for the next 5 weeks of travel.
Let’s assume you picked up the SARS-COV-2 virus.
Chloroquine and quinine derived analogs lock the SARS-COV-2 out by blocking the ACE2 receptor.
The recovery without Zinc was due either to young age having a strong immune system, or a Zinc rich diet, or catching it before it had a chance to develop into full blown COVID-19 with ARDS coupled with the a relatively strong immune system and/or Zinc-rich diet.
As you call yourself ‘retired’ perhaps your recovery was not due to young age with a robust immune system. But as far as immune systems go, an age of 60 or less is considered a young immune system.
You seemed to have taken a chloroquine medicine fairly quickly after the symptoms worsened so I think you caught it before it took you out. Congrats.
But chloroquine by itself won’t do it. Because you write that you got it, then it went away, it sounds like your immune system is strong. Then you it started seeing worse symptoms and by grace of God you took some variety of chloroquine treatment to bring reinforcements in the battle to take the virus out. But it could also be your diet helped in the battle.
If you eat a lot of seafood (oysters, crab, shrimp, salmon), liver, wild fowl giblets, and drink organic red wines (from France, some vineyards in Napa, some in Eastern WA State), whole grains like wild rice, then chances are your blood plasma has above average zinc content.
American diet should be rich in Zinc in its large amounts of red meat and poultry but unfortunately Zinc and other minerals and nutrients are lacking because of processing. Might be a good thought to push for Zinc fortified foods after this pandemic experience.
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