Posted on 08/27/2020 7:40:38 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
Can COVID be ruled out purely on x-ray on chest?
She said she was told she did not need a COVID swab test because they x-rayed her chest and it was not like COVID pneumonia.
Anyone hear this before?
I am dubious about that.
No, it cannot be ruled out by an X-ray.
Not at first.
My experience with flu is nasal, throat, fever followed by pneumonia of some sort [viral/bacterial].
This year I had the flu but got an inhaler to keep the bronchial tubes/lungs open. Still bad but a much better/faster outcome.
This is a very technical question — Sure it can be excluded with CXR, but cannot be diagnosed with CXR. CoVID PNA (SARS) has a multilobar ground glass opacity appearance favoring the bases but is spread throughout the lung. Lobar PNA would exclude CoVID. However, all Viral PNA have the ground glass opacities that cross lobes. So it cannot be diagnosed on CXR.
I know someone who had all the symptoms but was told he didn’t have Covid as soon as doctors viewed his xray, but he was given a covid test anyway, just to be sure, and it did come back negative. Several weeks later he was finally diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism (almost killed him, he couldn’t breathe all that time).
Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,you’re dead.
No but they do have very typical CT scans of the chest.
She probably it in a single lobe of lung. The Covid pneumonia would impact both lungs and show up as a lower respiratory.
So, while they cannot see a virus, they would be able to tell if it had the same pneumonia profile. I would imagine that be a decent indicator.
You really need to stop this canned post — you are not correct about if you are over 60 you are dead. Even in the highest risk group over 75 the mortality is 18%. Please, for the love of God, stop spreading false statements, and understand that making ABX and HCQ OTC is not the best strategy. Liberalizing them so that an rx is not blocked by a pharmacist is the appropriate strategy.
You are simply spamming CoVID threads with ignorant statements and incorrect data. Knock it off.
Disgraceful
Again, CT is not typical of CoVID, but Viral PNA. You cannot make a diagnosis of which specie based on CT or XR
I smoked two packs a day for thirty years until my doctor put the fear of God in me and I quit. There’s probably all manner of alien growth in my lungs - good luck finding the Kung Flu in there.
COVID can be determined by death. Dead? Yes COVID.
Correct
Thank you!
And there are plenty of atypical bacterial pneumonia’s that look viral as well. The entire clinical presentation needs to be considered not just an imaging test
“I smoked two packs a day for thirty years until my doctor put the fear of God in me and I quit. There’s probably all manner of alien growth in my lungs - good luck finding the Kung Flu in there.”
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Well, Vikings are tough but not invincible. You may be a candidate for the Low Dose CT Scan lung cancer screening test. I’m a former heavy smoker and Rush Limbaugh’s lung cancer diagnosis got me motivated to take it. I had the initial low dose scan done in late spring and they found a pulmonary nodule. It’s probably nothing but I go back for a follow up scan next month. Depending on whether it’s growing at a certain rate or not I’ll either be put to further diagnostic tests or, hopefully, just be put on the program’s schedule of yearly low dose CT scan screening tests.
Here’s a link for more info:
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/lung-cancer/saved-by-the-scan
Generally speaking yes if you have symptoms such as a bad cough.
Clinically, probably not by definition.
Thanks. I wasn’t so sure it’s good to push antibiotics as OTC, and I know it’s far from the Black Plague even for over 60. Heck, even my nephews MIL got very stomach sick for a week, turned out to be COVID. She got over it fine, being 65.
Why didn’t they do a CT to rule that out?
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