Posted on 02/20/2020 1:04:13 PM PST by Norski
Sepsis, an infection that kills millions worldwide each year and is the third leading cause of death in the United States, may have finally met its match.
Paul Marik, the EVMS Foundation Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, believes he has developed a cure for the life-threatening infection. His treatment breakthrough promises to revolutionize sepsis care and produce results that are nothing short of astonishing.
Vitamin C is often used intravenously as part of a treatment for cancer.
Hydrocortisone is used to relieve inflammation and for a variety of conditions from arthritis to asthma.
Thiamine is a vitamin.
Sepsis is the leading cause of death among hospitalized patients.
As a critical-care physician and head of the general intensive care unit (GICU) at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Dr. Marik used to be locked in a struggle with sepsis. Despite his efforts, one to two people under his care died each week from the disease. That all changed unexpectedly Jan. 5, 2016.
The breakthrough came as Dr. Marik struggled to save a woman dying from overwhelming sepsis. He had recently read about vitamin C as a potential treatment for sepsis, and he recalled that steroids, a common treatment for sepsis, might work well in concert with the vitamin C.
Aware that both were safe and would not harm the patient, he gave her the vitamin C and steroid combination intravenously.
Within hours, his patient was recovering. Two days later she was well enough to leave the ICU.
Dr. Marik and is colleagues were astonished.
In the following days they used the combination therapy on two more patients seemingly destined to die of sepsis. Twice more the patients recovered. Dr. Marik and his team quickly adopted the combination therapy as standard practice.
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If I recall correctly, Pauling didn’t use rose hips - just plain old ascorbic acid. I believe Dr Robert Cathcart had the same viewpoint.
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So if you're daughter is dying of sepsis, you won't even try vitamin C and Hydrocortisone?
Got it.
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.
See Post #29
Hydrocortisone
Ascorbic acid
Thiamine
The HAT protocol is not a just-yesterday approach to treatment of sepsis.
The gut’s tolerance for oral vitamin C goes up substantially with a serious infection.
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.
Whatever! Believe what you wish.
I’ll take that as a yes. You would not advocate that your daughter get the HAT protocol.
Your kid, your call.
See Post #49
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.
My loved one almost died from this.
Looks promising.
Yep, this is worth a Bookmark. +1
Add cranberry! The cause of my mom’s sepsis/pneumonia came from a UTI. Hard to detect in the elderly.
...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...
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.
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.
Yup, Linus Pauling knew this and the medical community excoriated him.
“””””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.
This will help people who break their hips. Infection can occur and you die from that.
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