Blood filter may calm the cytokine storm of COVID-19.

[2greys]

Cytokine storms created by COVID-19 are causing major organ destruction and death, and for the first time in the United States, when patients begin to show signs of trouble, physicians are replacing the usual filter in a kidney dialysis machine with a filter known to trap these tiny proteins, with the goal of avoiding the devastation.

“Cytokines are supposed to destroy the virus, but there is such a high level of cytokines that they are actually destroying organs,” Dr. Azeem Mohammed, nephrologist at the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health System, says of the chemical messengers that help regulate the immune response.

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[jmmc]

2greys I saw oñline an American doctor saying that it is the ventilators that are killing the patient there because the vents push the virus further into the lungs causing the disease to make breathing even harder. He reckoned that if the patients saturation levels hadn't fallen too low then all they needed to be put onto was oxygen. He said most patients had never been on oxygen or had any lung infections in the past and after being put onto ventilators it was these people who were dying. It certainly made me think that if I succumbed to the virus I would not be going onto a ventilator but insisting on only oxygen.

[Angelagone in reply to jmmc]

Me too. I saw the same thing. CPAP seems to be the best bet.

[jmmc in reply to Angelagone]

I am on a cpap machine at night time and on oxygen 24/7 for COPD so if I have the choice I will be staying on these Angelagone. No ventilator for me. What I do not understand is that doctor says they are not in the habit of checking saturation levels before putting the patients straight onto ventilators. You would think that would be the first thing they checked.

[Huacaya20]

I am using the Trilogy machine at night which is a non invasive ventilator..similar to CPap ...

Would you think that is too forceful with the virus?

I am a carbon dioxide retainer and this machine helps to force the Co2 from my lungs while I am sleeping.

I only have 18% function and use low oxygen most of the waking day

[2greys in reply to Huacaya20]

No I do not think it would be too forceful at all, no more than a CPAP machine used with Covid-19. Hopefully you will stay safe from the virus.

[Huacaya20 in reply to 2greys]

Thanks for your response..so if it happens to be the case I should refuse intubation!

Hope we all stay safe..😊

[2greys in reply to Huacaya20]

Refusing intubation, I would not make my mind up about that just now, if you are shielding/isolating properly you should not have to make that decision at all. Stop worrying about what might happen, after all we might all be wiped out by an asteroid hitting the earth.

[Huacaya20 in reply to 2greys]

Thanks..hahaha😊❤