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[goldensrbest]

@busymom22  Sorry you are dealing with this ,on top of your husband unemployment, keep your head up ,and pray.

[tends2dogs]

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@on the bay wrote:

@busymom22 

Oh gosh, I know that is scary.

I have heard vitamin d, zinc and baby aspirin, (to prevent clots).

But there are medications that they gave to the prominent people dontcha know in their early stages that prevented them getting sicker.

I would ask your doctor for them!

It makes me mad that these are available but not used on all!

These are remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies, and regen cov2.

I hope you all get better soon!

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@on the bay   The guy that cleans our pool is is in the hospital fighting Covid and is being given "all the medications that prominent people get, dontcha know?"

I am sure that it has more to do with the facility you are in and what is available to give, than who you are or who you know.

[busymom22]

So I called my doctor and they are only doing virtual visits. And they are not prescribing any "special" types of medication, only prescription cough syrups or maybe inhalers.

People need to realize this is pretty common.  The special medications you hear given to people are rare, and usually are reserved for those hospitalized. If you have a doctor who is willing to prescribe them to you consider yourself lucky.

This is why I am researching the best at-home remedies since that's all my doctor will tell me to use anyway.

[Bri369]

I'm just getting over Covid.  My daughter got it first, then my husband, and then me.  So we've been through it 3 times. 

What helped all of us was TheraFlu.  It helps with aches, sore throats, coughs, chills, fever, and headache.  There's really not much to do at home except get a lot of rest and try to keep hydrated.

Good luck!  Just when you think you're feeling better, it hits you all over again.  Every day is a new thing. 

[Mindy D]

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@on the bay wrote:

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@mcducky wrote:

What we found helpful:  (Per MD guidance)

Tylenol (Doc said no aspirin)

Pulse Oximeter (purchased at CVS). If number goes below 90% go to ER.  Apparently you can get low oxygen and not realise it until its harder to treat.

Thermometer.  If temp is consistently above 101 degrees call hospital.

Have Neosporin (or generic) on hand in case you get the covid rash...hubby has had the rash for 3.5 weeks.  

Rest, rest, rest....  I'm so surprised how fatigued we bother are/were.  

I am not a medical person...just saying what we did to get better.

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@mcducky wrote:

What we found helpful:  (Per MD guidance)

Tylenol (Doc said no aspirin)

Pulse Oximeter (purchased at CVS). If number goes below 90% go to ER.  Apparently you can get low oxygen and not realise it until its harder to treat.

Thermometer.  If temp is consistently above 101 degrees call hospital.

Have Neosporin (or generic) on hand in case you get the covid rash...hubby has had the rash for 3.5 weeks.  

Rest, rest, rest....  I'm so surprised how fatigued we bother are/were.  

I am not a medical person...just saying what we did to get better.

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@mcducky -That is strange because the top guy got a steroid, aspirin and vitamins.

My daughter's dr told her to take aspirin too-she had the flu but told to take aspirin

just in case her covd negative was positive.(from many websites and news stations-)

'Led by Jonathan H. Chow, MD, an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the study looked at 412 patients hospitalized with Covid-19. About a quarter (23.7%) of these patients had received aspirin in the seven-day time period before their admission to the hospital up to 24 hours after their admission. The research team found that those who had received aspirin during this time period ended up being 43% less likely to have been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), 44% less likely to have been placed on mechanical ventilation, and 47% less likely to have died in the hospital." 

These studies are not conclusive but I wonder why many drs do recommend aspirin and your dr did not.Maybe we don't know a lot. who knows?

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@on the bay @Read my post here. It contains the information about the aspirin study including the link to the original study paper. Aspirin,  not Tylenol is an anti inflammatory. The study was only conducted with hospitalized patients. If it were me,my opinion only, I'd take aspirin as long as I was not on a drug or had a medical condition that is contraindicated for its use. If my doctor was not aware of the study, I'd email it to him before I get an opinion. I also question the Neosporin for COVID rash. 

[on the bay]

@Mindy D -

Yeah, I haven't heard about neosporin for covd rash either.

I didn't post the pictures of the rash. Not sure how they got into your reply. It looks like you may have been posting to @mcducky,? and me? someone's pictures got mixed in there? weird.

I guess that is what can happen when too many posts are quoted. It gets all mixed up.

[Tinkerbell3]

Has your daughter been out and around people? One of you had to have contact without a mask on. 

[suzyQ3]

I would not take aspirin unless I cleared it with my doctor. We haven't used it for ages. While Tylenol and its generics are not an anti-inflammatory, I do believe that Advil and its generics are. Either way, check will a professional.

[busymom22]

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@Tinkerbell3 wrote:

Has your daughter been out and around people? One of you had to have contact without a mask on. 

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Her school did meet in person until last week so that could be possible.  They have reduced class sizes and masks are worn 100% of the time but we all know that is not guaranteed.

[pitdakota]

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@Imaoldhippie wrote:

@busymom22 .................Sorry your hubby has been ill and you and daughter are not feeling well.

However, you must know that wearing a mask does NOT prevent you from getting infected with Covid or anything else.  You and daughter should not assume anything, and check with your doctor.

Hope you all are feeling much better.  God bless

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Have to chime in here to say that wearing a masks does help protect the person that is wearing the mask, especially when used in conjunction with social distancing.  We now have all kinds of scientific evidence that wearing a mask is protective.  It is not a 100% guarantee one won't contract the virus, but is does play a pretty impressive protective factor for the person wearing the mask.

One thing they have discovered is that if a person wearing a mask does have a significant exposure and does end up testing positive, they were exposed to a lower viral dose and by theory then do not get as sick as they would have if not wearing the mask.  

I think people think of this a just one tiny virus causing an infection and don't realize that someone that is infected is expelling hundreds of viruses just by talking and speaking.  it doesn't take a cough or a sneeze to expel all kinds of viruses into the air around them.  So the masks are doing a pretty good job of protecting since not all those viruses are inhaled due to the mask.  That leads to a lower viral dose in that exposure.

In fact, there is a pretty large clinical study taking place right now with some of the docs already saying it is rare to see someone hospitalized with covid that always wore a mask.  Those individuals tend to be the ones that contract the virus and are able to stay at home with relatively mild symptoms.  That is why they are researching to determine the difference in viral loads of those infected.