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Probiotics and Cornoavirus.

I'm taking 100 mcg of Levothyroxine following pituitary surgery. Along with that I had a perforated bowel that resulted in a colostomy. I had the colostomy reversed (re-connected my plumbing) and to help with bowel activity I am taking some probiotics. Would these probiotics help to avoid the current virus?

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It appears that many cases are caused by inhalation of viral particles into the lungs.

While healthy guts might be highly desirable and help in all sorts of general ways, I cannot imagine they will reduce the likelihood of being infected in the first place via lungs or eyes.

At the same time, I suspect that the real answer is that nobody really knows.

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Most unlikely. Probably nothing can but Vit C and Vit D most likely help .

The main way to avoid is social distance. I read of some arrosol experiments from Scandinavia that showed ventilation can take droplets from a cough over a supermarket aisle and can stay in still air in an aisle for several minutes.

It seems to me that there has been a missing factor to explain the huge ever increasing number of cases and it may be the time the virus can stay in the air.

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