Corona virus: Six False Prevention and Treatment Tips You Should Ignore

Corona virus is spreading very fast in different countries of the world and so far no proven cure has been found. Unfortunately, corona virus treatment continues to be treated online. Some tips are useless but harmless but some are very dangerous.  We've looked at claims of this nature widely shared online and tried to find out what science has to say about it.  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 (WHO) says that although garlic is "a healthy food with some antimicrobial properties", there is no evidence that eating garlic protects people from the corona virus. Can  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 adequate amounts of 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.
Leading YouTuber Jordan Sether has been found to claim that "miracle minerals" can completely eradicate the corona virus. 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 corona virus spread. In January of this year, he tweeted that "Chlorine dioxide not only effectively kills the cancer germs but also the corona virus."
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 could cause symptoms such as nausea, diarrhea, cholera and severe dehydration.  There have also been reports of a shortage of hand sanitizers in various countries. The main reason for this is that frequent hand washing is a great way to prevent the spread of the corona virus. When news of the shortage began to circulate 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 ground 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. Jim Baker, 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 corona virus within 12 hours. However, the guest also admitted that the solution has not been tested on Covid 19. It was widely rumored on Facebook that "the solution may be useful in the treatment of corona." And it was at the forefront of groups spreading skepticism about 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.

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 corona virus 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.

In addition, drinking good and adequate amounts of water is good for your health. 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 hair dryer. 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 being exposed to 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 corona virus, 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 corona virus. 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. Is. Professor Bloomfield added that outside the human body, "you need a temperature of about 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 temperature of the human body remains the same as before that you are not already sick.