[BikerJoe]

I'm not a doctor, although I work in the medical field. I read a report the other day that said the cytokine storm is from the body inadequately developing defenses to the virus early on. They said that suppressing fever causes the inadequate defense development and that anti fever medication should not be taken until the fever is 103.5..104.0.

FWIW

[catnipman]

“I read a report the other day that said the cytokine storm is from the body inadequately developing defenses to the virus early on. They said that suppressing fever causes the inadequate defense development and that anti fever medication should not be taken until the fever is 103.5..104.0.

that’s interesting ... here’s a published medical article that discusses that:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786079/

one thing that caught my eye:

“A challenge in ascertaining the precise value of fever in endotherms is that the antipyretics used to inhibit fever target multiple aspects of the inflammatory response besides temperature regulation”

maybe it’s not just the fever suppression that’s the problem but that NSAID’s suppress the general inflammatory response (unlike the non-NSAID, acetaminophen)

[catnipman]

also looks like tocilizumab might be an excellent treatment for cytokine storm:

https://jitc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40425-018-0343-9