Posted on 05/09/2020 4:27:41 PM PDT by RummyChick
A Brooklyn woman desperately ill with the coronavirus is breathing easy this Mothers Day thanks to a novel treatment her medical-student son helped provide.
Josephine Bruzzese, who is 48 and otherwise healthy, woke up on March 22 with a fever, body aches, dry cough and trouble breathing. She lost the ability to smell or taste. Her family rushed her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in Sunset Park.
She was so short of breath she couldnt speak said her 23-year-old son, James.
The hospital diagnosed the mom of four with pneumonia, but with no coronavirus tests available, it sent her home as a suspected COVID-19 case.
Some symptoms improved when Bruzzese, who works in banking, was given the antibiotic azithromycin and the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine but she still couldnt breathe.
We were very worried because she couldnt stand up without almost passing out from shortness of breath, her son said. Her respiratory symptoms were very severe.
James, who lives with his parents and three siblings in Bath Beach, is in his second year at the CUNY School of Medicine in a special program that combines a bachelors and medical degrees.
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This article was dated 2019 and indicates they are still giving
Thalidamide
https://thalassaemia.org.cy/news/tif-on-thalidomide/
I am not even sure why they are going down that controversial route.
Did you read it? He called his sisters doctor and asked for his advice and then followed it. That's what the hero med student's 'quick thinking' was, making a phone call (granted, the call was to a doctor who specialized in Lyme disease rather than a GP).
Those supplements do not cause nausea.
What are your blood levels of vitamin D?
The problem, as I see it, is that many MDs who hate vitamins and nutrition, yet know next to nothing about them, will still bash them when given the opportunity.
No idea. Ive gone back through all my blood work the past few years and dont see a Vit D analysis. I was insufficient on B12 and take a supplement for that.
You have to ask for it, because it is not a standard test. It should be a standard test, and why it isn’t, with so many people deficient (and everyone told to slather on sunscreen), should be the subject of a Congressional inquiry. In reality you should get that Vit D test before you supplement with the D3.
Check out the Vitamin D Council (by John Cannell MD) for the best info. This info will in all likelihood be different from what your MD tells you.
Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out...
The story states that the HCQ and zpacks had little effect in his mom’s case.
Lipsomal? What exactly does that mean?
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