[Ed P]

Almost certainly a load of alcohol would be a bad thing. Covid-19 attacks the ACE2 in the liver, and the liver is quickly damaged by alcohol, having two damaging things in the same place does not sound to be a good idea. Although ethanol disrupts viruses I have never known it to cure flu – it just makes the misery more tolerable.

[RSB]

Spoil Sport 🙂 However all is not lost. If I get a bad cold or flue I go the good hot vindaloo route. Burn it out. Seems to work for me plus plenty of vit C.

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[Ed P]

If you look up quinine it may well interfere nastily with any other meds you are taking. My advice would be that keeping yourself well hydrate may be a better strategy.

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[RSB]

I have been told to take a wide berth where grapefruit is concerned as it will lead to an overdose of my happy pills “Sertraline 100mg” and will finish me. Frankly I believe it’s an over exagertion but considering I don’t believe I have ever had anything grape fruit related or desire it I am safe there. But a GT every now and then, I will not give up on that. If I was to cach this virus, I am going out smilling. 🙂

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[Ed P]

I’m looking to buy a 3M half mask for my wife. My wife is of an average female size. I do know that my large size mask fits me perfectly, but is too large for her. Does anyone know if the medium size is a better fit for the average female or do I need to order the small size?

[The VFM Addict]

RSB wrote:

Thats good, I am on prescription for 20’000 IU HuxD3 colecaliferol.

Just wanted to jump in there re the Vitamin D.    You don’t mention it but that dose of 20,000 iu would definitely be one a week I assume.    Doctors almost universally use that dose once a week and I’ve never seen a doc use any other dose of Vit D.    I just didn’t want anyone to think that was one a day.    Once a day (140,000 iu a week) would be very dangerous indeed.

Unless one is diagnosed as Vit D deficient 10,000 to 15,000 iu a week is probably sufficient and is best into daily doses.   I myself now take 14,000 iu a week.   To get that I take two of these a day.    Let me explain the calculation.    One microgram of Vitamin D (written mcg or ug) equals 40 iu.    So each 25mcg equals 1,000 iu.    Two a day seven days a week equals 14,000 iu.     I previously used a 12.5 mcg Vitamin D for Lidl but that being half the strength required 4 a day.    I just prefer 2 a day although either route is as effective as the other.   I should add that the conversion from weight to iu’s is different for different supplements and this conversion only holds for Vit D.

Quite apart from its benefits in helping to fight infections there is some study evidence that it assists in maintaining cardiac contractility hence reduces the risk of developing heart failure.  There is also some evidence that it promotes the growth of tiny collateral blood vessels which can in part shunt and fill in for blockages or partial occlusions in major cardiac arteries.    The advantages in either case are very small but what the heck every little helps which is why I started taking Vit D about 18 months ago because with my other half’s mobility issues we rarely get out especially in the winter.

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Ed, re your mask sizing if large is too big for her you have no option but to drop a size and logically that should be ideal unless she has room to dance in your size mask because it is flopping about everywhere.

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[RSB]

No, Your correct @thevfmaddict I should of mentioned that. I have to take 2 so 40’000 per week.

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[The VFM Addict]

RSB wrote:

No, Your correct @thevfmaddict I should of mentioned that. I have to take 2 so 40’000 per week.

WOW.   Never seen that before.   You must have been incredibly Vit D deficient.    What are you a subterranean dwelling vegan; no sun, no meat and no oily fish?  ……… LOL

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[Ed P]

I managed to find the correct Google-foo. Medium size for average/smaller adults, small for children.

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@Lee, as vfm has raised questions about your vitamin D dosage you may want at some time to quietly check with your pharmacist. Although it is rare, there have been cases of a miscommunication by the GP. Many years ago, my wife was nearly a victim of such a problem except I looked at the script and said WOW! (that was a case of numbers being transposed)

[RSB]

God Knows, I am falling to bits 🙂

 

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[The VFM Addict]

@RSB

Had to go check this because my memory is not what it once was but at the dose you are taking of Vit D I hope that your GP is undertaking bloods test very regularly as there is a considerable risk of such causing hypercalcemia (too high calcium levels in the blood) and that’s very bad news for hearts and kidneys.    It would be even worse if one was also magnesium deficient because Mg+ also acts as the body’s natural calcium antagonist.   As I say I hope your blood levels of calcium and magnesium are regularly checked, if they are not then I very strongly recommend that you absolutely insist that they are.

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[RSB]

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[RSB]

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[RSB]

I know the dates do not match up but I have been precribed them again.

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[The VFM Addict]

Lee,

I have double, double checked.    A dose of 40,000 iu a week is only recommended as a loading dose for 7 weeks.   After 7 weeks the dose should be dropped to a maintenance dose equivalent to 2,000iu a day; although using the 20,000 iu caps just two times a month would be OK.    The only clinical justification for 40,000iu for more than 7 weeks would be if a blood test was taken between the first script and the second and the deficiency was still not corrected such as to warrant continuation.

My concerns remain the same as previously stated.   Protracted use of the 40,000iu a week dose which in your case seems to have already been for 12+ weeks carries a high risk of precipitating excess levels of calcium in the blood.    I spend most of my working life talking to senior clinicians and medical academics and would not hesitate making this challenge to any of them either academically or if I myself were placed on such a dose.   If blood tests have not been taken I would want to know why this potentially hazardous off-licence dose is being persisted with without them.

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[The VFM Addict]

Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Senegal and Tunisia all registered their first case today.

Its been a bad day.   Of the 2,036 cases so far in Italy there is still no outcome in 1,835 of them and 166 of them are now in a critical condition.   Of those cases where an outcome has already been reached 52 have died and just 149 have recovered.   This is bleak; because even if no-one else in the 2,036 cases dies and all of the currently critical pull through, the case fatality rate will still be 2.55% (i.e. 52 out of 2036).    In that this is the first sizeable European cohort it does not bode well.

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[Ed P]

The initial major Italian outbreak was centred on Codogno hospital and patient zero was initially asymptomatic, so no precautions were taken. I’d guess that a hospital is probably one of the worst places for such an infection to break out and may help explain a high CFR.

 

[RSB]

Anyhow, regardless of what I think of facemasks I have put a few up here.  

As mentioned in an other post I believe there more usfull to stop passing it on. I have done them at cost +0.50 for the forumite coffers.

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[RSB]

Here is the amazon link if you prefer to go there.

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[The VFM Addict]

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The Italian Covid-19 epidemic is now in such full swing that China today reported 7 new infection cases that were imported from Italy !!!

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