Has sepsis met its match? New treatment may save millions around the world

Eastern Virginia Medical School Magazine ^ | 9.4 017 | Staff

[Magic Fingers]

If I recall correctly, Pauling didn’t use rose hips - just plain old ascorbic acid. I believe Dr Robert Cathcart had the same viewpoint.

[sauropod]

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[null and void]

When Harvard, Columbia, Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic approve I'll accept it. Until then,no thanks.

So if you're daughter is dying of sepsis, you won't even try vitamin C and Hydrocortisone?

Got it.

[Gay State Conservative]

If the hospital/physician in question is following "accepted standards of practice" (IIRC that's the term that lawyers use) you could get all the lawyers on earth and you'd lose.

Patients don't have a "right" to receive any experimental treatment.Patients can be allowed to participate in a medical study if those managing it say OK...but it's not a right.

[Gay State Conservative]

See Post #29

[Ozark Tom]

Hydrocortisone
Ascorbic acid
Thiamine

The HAT protocol is not a just-yesterday approach to treatment of sepsis.

[Ozark Tom]

The gut’s tolerance for oral vitamin C goes up substantially with a serious infection.

[RummyChick]

And when that child dies they better hope they covered every single basis and covered their butts in every possible way when the lawsuit hits.

[Gay State Conservative]

Whatever! Believe what you wish.

[null and void]

I’ll take that as a yes. You would not advocate that your daughter get the HAT protocol.

Your kid, your call.

[Gay State Conservative]

See Post #49

[RummyChick]

Believe what I wish? There is no wish. Every single thing will be gone through with a fine tooth comb..and that first year resident better hope he didnt make a mistake.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

My loved one almost died from this.

Looks promising.

[alancarp]

Yep, this is worth a Bookmark. +1

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Add cranberry! The cause of my mom’s sepsis/pneumonia came from a UTI. Hard to detect in the elderly.

[Jane Long]

...Patients don’t have a “right” to receive any experimental treatment.Patients can be allowed to participate in a medical study if those managing it say OK...but it’s not a right...

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Thank God for POTUS Donald J Trump for passing the ‘Right to Try’ Act.

To allow us plebs to try potentially life saving regimens/treatments, that other so-called ‘experts’ would otherwise deny.

Geez.

[Gay State Conservative]

Good God Almighty...do any of you know that "doctors" once cured every disease known to man with leeches? Have any of you ever heard of Thalidomide?

Medical research is complicated business.Prematurely declaring a drug...just to use one example...as a panacea can cost lives.

As for the "Right To Try" Act that's the first I've heard of it.If this Act allows people like several of the ones on this thread to demand any sort of treatment that they read about on the internet then it could very well be a bad idea.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup, Linus Pauling knew this and the medical community excoriated him.

[shelterguy]

“””””When Harvard, Columbia, Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic approve I’ll accept it. Until then,no thanks.

So if you’re daughter is dying of sepsis, you won’t even try vitamin C and Hydrocortisone?

Got it. “””””””””””””””””””””””””””

Two years ago my adult son was on life support due to sepsis. They told us he had basically no chance of survival. He did make it.

I would think that at that time you would try anything and everything.

[minnesota_bound]

This will help people who break their hips. Infection can occur and you die from that.