6 Misconceptions About Coronavirus Treatment

Coronavirus is spreading very fast in different countries of the world and so far no proven cure has been found.

Unfortunately, coronavirus treatment continues to be treated online. Different people are giving different suggestions for the treatment of coronavirus. In an Africa country a religious leader asked his followers to drink Dettol for coronavirus treatment. As a result about 80 people died. Some tips are useless but harmless but some are very dangerous.

 Lets look what science says about some common misconceptions.

1-Garlic

A number of posts have been shared on the social networking site Facebook suggesting that eating garlic can help prevent infections.

The World Health Organization says that although garlic is "a healthy food with some antimicrobial properties", there is no evidence that eating garlic protects people from the coronavirus.

This type of treatment is not harmful to health unless you trust it and ignore the existing (corona) certified medical advice in this regard. But such tips also have the potential to be harmful to health.

The South China Morning Post has published the story of a woman who was taken to hospital after eating 1.5 kg of raw garlic. Eating so much garlic caused severe sore throat.

We all know that eating fruits and vegetables and drinking enough water is very good for health. However, there is no evidence that eating a particular type of food will boost immunity against a particular virus.

2- ‘Miracle Minerals’

Leading YouTuber Jordan Sether has been found to claim that "miracle minerals" can completely eradicate the coronavirus. These minerals are called MMS.

Jordan Sether has thousands of followers on social networking sites.

These minerals contain chlorine dioxide, a bleaching agent. Sether and his colleagues began promoting the mineral long before the coronavirus spread.

In January of this year, he tweeted that "Chlorine dioxide not only effectively kills the cancer germs but also the coronavirus."

Last year, the US Food and Drug Administration warned of the health risks of drinking these minerals. In other countries, health officials have issued alerts.

The Food and Drug Administration says "we are not aware of any research that shows that such products are effective in treating any disease."

The agency added that drinking these minerals can cause symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, cholera, and severe dehydration.

3- Home-made disinfectant solution

There have also been numerous reports that hand sanitizers have become scarce in various countries. The main reason for this is that frequent hand washing is a great way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

When news of the shortage began in Italy, recipes for such antiseptic solutions went viral on social media.

But many of these recipes can help clean the surface of objects on the floor or in the home, but as scientists have said, they are not at all the subject of human skin.

Alcoholic hand gels usually contain ingredients that keep the skin soft, supple, and fresh.

Sally Bloomfield, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says she can't believe you can make such an effective disinfectant solution at home.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says home-made disinfectant solutions are effective for various levels of hygiene.

4- Drinkable Colloidal Silver

Jim Baker, the host of the American TV show, encouraged the use of 'colloidal silver' in one of his programs.

Colloidal silver is actually the fine metal particles in any liquid. A guest at the event claimed that the solution was capable of killing a few germs of the coronavirus within 12 hours. However, the guest also admitted that the solution has not been tested on COVID 19.

There was widespread speculation on Facebook that the solution might be useful in the treatment of corona, and that groups leading the way were skeptical of mainstream medical advice. See from

Proponents of this solution claim that it can cure all kinds of ailments because of its antiseptic properties. They also say that the solution improves the immune system. But US health officials have made it clear that there is no evidence that this type of silver can be effective in treating any disease.

Most importantly, its use can have many harmful effects on health, such as kidney damage, seizures, and arrhythmias (a disease in which the skin turns blue).

Unlike metals such as iron and zinc, silver is a metal that has no function in the human body, health officials say.

People who used to advertise the silver solution on Facebook are now being sent warning messages by the Facebook administration.

5.Drinking water after every 15 minutes

There is also a post that has been shared thousands of times. This post describes an alleged message from a "Japanese doctor." The message says that drinking water every 15 minutes kills all the viruses in the mouth.

An Arabic version of this message has been shared more than two and a half million times.

University of Oxford professor Trudy Long says there is no such thing as a biological mechanism that supports the idea that you can just drink water and pass the virus from your mouth to your stomach and kill it.

Infections such as the coronavirus enter the body through the respiratory system when you breathe.

It is very rare for a virus to enter your mouth, and even if it does, drinking water regularly will not prevent you from getting the virus.

Moreover, drinking a good and adequate amount of water is beneficial for your health.

6- Take hot drinks, but avoid ice cream

In addition, there are many other tips that suggest that heat eliminates the virus or drink very hot water or take a bath with hot water and even use a hairdryer.

Social media users in various countries have shared a post saying that it was released by UNICEF, although this is not the case at all.

The message in this post is that using hot water and staying in front of the sun as much as possible can kill the virus. It is also said to avoid eating ice cream.

Charlotte Gorantzka, who works at UNICEF to crack down on misinformation about the coronavirus, says: Is a means of protection from, Of course, that's not true. "

We all know that the flu virus cannot survive outside the human body in hot weather, but we do not know at all how heat affects the new coronavirus.

According to Professor Bloomfield, keeping your body warm or exposed to the sun as much as possible, simply so that your body does not become infected with the virus, is completely ineffective. Once the virus enters your body, there is no way you can kill it. Yes, once the virus enters your body, your immune system fights it and kills it. ۔

Professor Bloomfield added that outside the human body, "you need a temperature of around 60 degrees Celsius to kill any virus immediately." And it's much hotter than any hot water bath. "

However, it is a good idea to use warm water up to 60 degrees Celsius to wash bed sheets and towels, as this will eliminate the virus in the clothes. However, washing human skin with such hot water is not a good idea.

Another thing is that taking a hot bath or drinking hot drinks does not change your body temperature. Even after drinking hot drinks or water, the human body temperature remains the same as before you did it because you are not already sick.