Posted on 10/05/2014 4:58:05 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
ORT basically buys the patient's immune system more time to overcome the disease. With a little online searching you can learn how to prepare the mixture at home.
Buy some coconut water.
Far superior in every way.
This is just an attempt to sway the public that they have discovered something “new”, but anyone who has massive vomiting and diarrhea goes into electrolyte imbalance and the treatment is electrolytes via IV to restore balance. The doctor, Brantley, was treated by injecting antibodies into his system from the blood of a boy who contracted ebola and lived because his immune system somehow managed to produce antibodies to the virus. The doc had the boy’s blood serum antibodies injected into him.
This NBC article on electrolyte replacement is just blabber. It’s always done, but won’t help if your body is hemorrhaging and your clotting factors are done for.
PLUS, God did the rest.
Japan has 20,000 dose of a similar drug that France used to “cure” a patient there. They are willing to provide it and offered even offered it to WHO, according to an article posted here earlier today.
A few months ago I was working with a couple of guys and I heard one mention something about pickle juice to the other. I asked what he was talking about and he said he had bad leg cramps the night before and he drank pickle juice. Said it fixed the leg cramps but messed up his stomach... said he could sh-t through a screen door.
“Duncan died earlier today.”
WOW, for me you got the scoop.
Well, I won’t say RIP, because he lied to get here and endangered his family and others, but I hope his family will be OK.
“Gator Aid...My prescription for leg cramps”
I will try it. I’ve never drunk it, but I get leg cramps something awful, definitely worth a shot. Thanks!
Until Duct Tape came along (I now prefer Gorilla Tape) there was no cure for noisy mothers-in-law.
Bumper sticker: Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.
I like the blue flavor.
There are soooo many flavors and tweaked variations now, there has to be something OK for you.
I ear the earlier threads about Duncan’s supposed death earlier today, and it only came from one source (Israeli, if I remember right).
I have no idea whether this source is reliable, or not. But, it does lead me to question why it has not been “called out” by our press, if it is untrue.
If we can no longer trust the media to keep us informed, then I am more worried about “societal panic” than from reading all the reports about folks with the flu getting isolated and quarantined.
We have more to fear from an irrational public panic than the we do from the disease itself - the former has the potential to bring our “just-in-time” complex system to collapse, if regular people who drive the trucks, run the assays, man the emergency rooms, child-care-centers, public transportation, and emergency room support systems all freak out and stay home, while trying to stock up to hunker down.
I can understand, therefore, why CDC, etc. need to downplay the problem, but in order to control the public, they then have to control the media, and we are left in the dark, vulnerable to rumors, charlatans, and opportunists - not knowing what is truth, and what is hype.
Think about how complex, but how fragile, our modern metroplex systems actually are - they all run on trust, and when that fails, it looks like a mad-max world out there.
Need to read rest of the thread.
Apparently, that is untrue. At least as of that posting.
Nicely written and it echos many of my thoughts this evening. The press has been way too quiet and stories are left to the imagination. Something is afoot and it is not good. This administration is absolutely corrupt and is controlling information. It is unimaginable the dangerous waters we are traveling at this point in our history.
That's what I always understood. Well maybe not 'always', but after last several years of reading about this. Ebola depletes clotting factor bigtime like it's going out of style.
That was uncalled for! LOL
Leg cramps are frequently caused by low levels of calcium. If Gatorade doesn’t work, look into OsCal calcium supplements.
I take potassium and it works within minutes for charly horses.
Electrolytes are crucial for anybody who is vomiting and ‘’running’’ constantly. You can’t drink enough to keep up with it.
Vitamin K injections don’t help with the clotting factor? I’m not a doc, so am unaware of what else might be used to restore clotting factor.
Haven’t seen ebola in action either, but if it’s anything like parvo (in a dog) just comparing the vomiting and diarrhea...oh my goodness. I do not want to experience that! My dog survived parvo...I treated her at home, and it was NOT pretty. She vomited over 30 times in a 24 hour span. The vomiting alone had to be horribly painful at that rate. She couldn’t keep down so much as a teaspoon of liquids, orally. Fever was over 106*F. Stool was totally liquid, explosive, and mostly blood.
If ebola is anything like that...that’s all I have to compare with, I really don’tknow how anybody would survive. The dog vomited at a fantastic rate for FIVE days and had diarrhea for weeks..
I really think this stuff should be publicized to help us be more aware of what we’re looking at compared with flu, or other severe gastro-intestinal illnesses.
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