Posted on 08/14/2021 8:39:13 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Background: Gastrointestinal disorders are frequent in COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothesized to impact on host microbial flora and gut inflammation, infecting intestinal epithelial cells. Since there are currently no coded therapies or guidelines for treatment of COVID-19, this study aimed to evaluate the possible role of a specific oral bacteriotherapy as complementary therapeutic strategy to avoid the progression of COVID-19.
Methods: We provide a report of 70 patients positive for COVID-19, hospitalized between March 9th and April 4th, 2020. All the patients had fever, required non-invasive oxygen therapy and presented a CT lung involvement on imaging more than 50%. Forty-two patients received hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, and tocilizumab, alone or in combination. A second group of 28 subjects received the same therapy added with oral bacteriotherapy, using a multistrain formulation.
Results: The two cohorts of patients were comparable for age, sex, laboratory values, concomitant pathologies, and the modality of oxygen support. Within 72 h, nearly all patients treated with bacteriotherapy showed remission of diarrhea and other symptoms as compared to less than half of the not supplemented group. The estimated risk of developing respiratory failure was eight-fold lower in patients receiving oral bacteriotherapy. Both the prevalence of patients transferred to ICU and mortality were higher among the patients not treated with oral bacteriotherapy.
Conclusions: A specific bacterial formulation showed a significant ameliorating impact on the clinical conditions of patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection. These results also stress the importance of the gut-lung axis in controlling the COVID-19 disease.
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Sure. You take them orally and the capsules are full of live bacteria.
Obesity is definitely a huge factor, metabolic syndrome and Diabetes are markers. Interestingly enough one of the proven benefits of reducing is an improvement in gut flora.
One of the things I’ve noticed about medicine is a lot of times they treat symptoms with drugs. High blood cholesterol or blood pressure, or here, different gut “bugs”. Maybe that will work, but it seems to me in this situation, losing the poundage means all those things will take care of themselves without the need for any drugs in the first place.
Are you normal weight?
People who are obese hate being obese. Most have tried and failed to lose weight many times.
I am normal weight. I lost more than 70 pounds more than 10 years ago. It is a minute by minute struggle against hunger. Personally, I wonder if hell could be worse. At the moment, the carnivore diet has been the best workable solution.
Just “losing the poundage” shouldn’t be suggested casually.
I am, it was “serendipity”, I think is the word, was scheduled for a 10 day backcountry hiking trip in March of 2020, so in June of 2019 I started a crash program to lose the excess poundage. Managed 60 pounds. It was obvious that carrying 50 useless pounds on the gut, that just means no carrying 50 pounds on my back again.
Then as everybody knows, the ChiCom bug hit. I am very fortunate, my suspicion is, though impossible to know for certain, is that this particular bug would have ended with me on the casualty list had I not done this.
Hadn’t had the flu in many years, and then in February I came down with something. Not the worst flu I’ve ever had maybe, but it was pretty bad. Severe aches and pains, all the classic influenza symptoms and a high fever that lasted longer than just a couple few days. At first I thought my thermometer was defective.
Walgreen's, CVS, RiteAid, etc sell over-the-counter probiotics comprised of billions of good bacteria.
Everyone with any kind of infection, immune system disorder or frequent digestive disorders, especially if they are taking antibiotics, should take probiotics to support and restore their gut health. Half of the immune system is in the gut.
I wonder if kefir would work - it is the only probiotic I can take
that sux...21%
Blazing Saddles campfire scene, repeated over and over across America? Guys will certainly be down with that!
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