Hospitalized coronavirus patients who take daily aspirin have lower death risk, study finds

Fox News ^ | October 23, 2020 | Madeline Farber

[willk]

Hospitalized coronavirus patients who took daily aspirin for cardiovascular health had a lower death risk than those who did not take aspirin, according to the findings of a new study conducted by researchers with the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Patients who took aspirin also had a lower risk of complications, while their chances of requiring admission into the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) and being ventilated also fell, according to a news release regarding the findings, which were published Wednesday in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia.

[willk]

I'm 3 for 3 so far. I have O+ blood type, I take famotidine for heartburn and a daily baby aspirin. How about taking a statin drug? Then I can be 4 for 4.

[traderrob6]

All good with the exception of the statin......nasty stuff that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ve read that the dosage of famotidine needed for COVID is about 9X the dosage needed for heartburn.

[scouter]

Makes sense. Every nurse and doctor I know who has taken care of Covid patients says their blood clots very easily, even to the point of clotting up major IVs. Aspirin is a blood thinner.

[Balding_Eagle]

I had a choice, take statins or live a normal life.

I’m enjoying my normal life.

[MayflowerMadam]

Live free or die. Agree.

[DAC21]

So I wonder if the combination of high doses of Vitamin D, C, zinc and aspirin will kill you? Maybe spontaneous combustion or something/s

[Karl Spooner]

Anti-inflammatory, antiviral as well. They may take it off the shelves now. Too cheap.

[Magic Fingers]

“I had a choice, take statins or live a normal life. I’m enjoying my normal life.”

By the end of my first week on statins, I went from moderately vigorous exercise 3-4 days a week to crawling across the room due to crippling leg cramps. The prescribing doc said it was probably “psychosomatic pain”. I said “waking me up from a sound sleep at 3 AM?” He looked away and mumbled “well, no...”. C’mon, man!

[gas_dr]

20 mg famotidine is the correct dose

[gas_dr]

This hardly should surprise anyone, considering that viral thrommbosis is part of the mechanism of deterioration in SARS CoVID 2

So much, so obvious

I think it is clear that there are emerging prophylaxis treatments
ASA
Famotidine
Vit D
Vit C
Zinc

High Risk people:
+HCQ or
+Ivermectin

Until the vaccine turns up, then all this nonsense can end...OR if you dont want a vaccine you can continue the above medicinal prophylaxis although it is NOT perfect.

[Sacajaweau]

My buddy had the leg cramp thing, too and stopped taking his statins. He’s 87.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

From Drugs.com: Usual Adult Dose for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 20 mg orally 2 times day

BMJ Journals Famotidine use and quantitative symptom tracking for COVID-19 in non-hospitalised patients: a case series

Patient 1 is a white woman in her 40s with a medical history of epilepsy for which she takes levetiracetam 1 g daily. She took famotidine 80 mg three times daily for 11 days starting 4 days after first experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.

Patient 2 is a Hispanic man in his 40s without pre-existing conditions. He took famotidine 80 mg three times daily for 11 days starting 8 days after first experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.

Patient 3 is an Asian man in his 30s without pre-existing conditions. He took famotidine 80 mg three times daily for 7 days starting 9 days after first experiencing symptoms of COVID-19.

So my understanding is that, for HOSPITALIZED patients, the famotidine dosage is six times higher than when used for GERD.

The Marik EVMS Critical Care Protocol recommends 20-40 mg/day for prophylaxis against COVID.

[gas_dr]

We largely use the 20 - 40 in even the critically ill — for reasons that are way in the weeds 80 of famotidine is not particularly safe nor reasonable

[gas_dr]

Actually, ASA is an anti platelet, Blood thinners are Heparin type medications or Xa inhibitors. That being said, all critically ill CoVID patients are fully heparinized early on.

[redcatcherb412]

My buddy had the leg cramp thing, too and stopped taking his statins. He’s 87.

They say one thing to stop leg cramps is 6oz of tonic water. I have had cramps raise me out of bed and the tonic water seems to shorten the duration of the cramping by about half. Supposedly the minute amount of quinine in the tonic water helps reduce the cramping.

[BobL]

“I had a choice, take statins or live a normal life. I’m enjoying my normal life.”

And it winds up that statins don’t do jack, as they played with numbers to sell them.

Basically it went like this: If you don’t take Statins, your risk of dying from a heart attack over 5 years goes from something like 1.5% to 1.0%, therefore if do you take statins, it reduces your risk of dying from a heart attack by 33% (from 1.5% to 1.0%). So they published the 33% number, when the TRUE answer is 0.5%, since you’re very unlikely to die that way, with or without statins. The doctors didn’t bother to look at the data, they just trusted the 33% number.

One other thing, the people who got diabetes when on statins increased by by something like 10% (over the control group), and that was a real 10% (and I know one of those 10%).

There are videos on it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind.

It sounds like it is hard on the liver.

Should it be part of a prophylaxis regimen?

[Parley Baer]

I also take a daily baby aspirin. I also take Vitamin D and Zinc.

[Mr Rogers]

If my blood gets any thinner, I won’t be able to keep it in my skin. Guess that is good in some ways.