“Due to the collapse of the health system, health workers have prepared this message” – Still no self-diagnosis

The chain of St. Anthony of “health workers have prepared this message” arouses some concern. Not for the veracity of the message, which, as we will see, can be easily stored in the world of “unverified information” otherwise known as fake news, but a related question.

When the First Wave was in full force WhatsApp, we remember it distinctly, was filled with bizarre invitations to self-diagnosis passed off as the will of doctors. In February we were overwhelmed by the unlikely chain of S. Antonio of the “medical uncle”. Only a month later someone decided to write those tips in the form of an infographic, according to the typical theory of serial sharers that “if they are words written with the professional form on the Internet then it is all true”.

But in reality we are always faced with the same substance: “Sciura Maria’s advice”, collected phrases and good practices mixed with authentic hoaxes, all wrapped up in a form that seems pleasant, but is not so pleasant.

Let’s now read the text and examine it.

“Due to the collapse of the health system, health workers have prepared this message”

Here is the text we have been asked to examine

Due to the collapse of the health system, health workers have prepared this message for people, in case you don’t want to risk going to the hospital immediately;
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◉ Symptoms appear from the third day after infection (viral symptoms).
➙ 1a fase;
◉ Body pain
◉ Pain in the eyes
◉ headache
◉ vomiting
◉ Diarrhea
Runny nose or nasal congestion
◉ Decomposition
◉ Burning in the eyes
◉ Burning when urinating
◉ Feeling of fever
◉ Scratched throat (sore throat)
➙ It is very important to count the days of symptoms: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
◉ Take action before the fever begins.
◉ Attention, it is very important to drink plenty of fluids, especially purified water. Drink plenty of water to keep your throat dry and to clear your lungs.
____
➙ 2nd phase; (4th to 8th day) inflammatory.
◉ Loss of taste and / or smell
◉ Fatigue with minimal effort
◉ Pain in the chest (rib cage)
◉ Chest strengthening
◉ Pain in the lower back (in the kidney area)
____
➙ The virus attacks nerve endings;
◉ The difference between fatigue and shortness of breath:
• _The lack of air is when the person is sitting – without making any effort – and is out of breath;
• Fatigue is when the person moves to do something simple and feels tired.
____
➙ Requires a lot of hydration and vitamin C.
____
Covid-19 binds oxygen, so blood quality is poor, with less oxygen.
____
➙ 3rd phase – healing;
◉ The healing phase begins on day 9, which can last up to day 14 (convalescence).
◉ Don’t delay treatment, the sooner the better!
____
➙ Good luck everyone!
It is best to keep these recommendations, prevention is never too much!
• Sit in the sun for 15-20 minutes
• Rest and sleep for at least 7-8 hours.
• Drink 1 and a half liters of water a day
• All foods must be hot (not cold).
➙ Keep in mind that the pH of the coronavirus ranges from 5.5 to 8.5.
So all we need to do to get rid of the virus is to eat more alkaline foods, above the acid level of the virus.
Come;
◉ Banane, Lime → 9,9 pH
◉ Lemon yellow → 8.2 pH
◉ Avocado – pH 15.6
◉ Garlic – pH 13.2
◉ Mango – pH 8,7
◉ Mandarin – pH 8.5
◉ Pineapple – 12.7 pH
◉ Watercress – 22.7 pH
◉ Oranges – 9.2 pH
____
➙ How do you know you have Covid-19 ?!
◉ itchy throat
◉ Dry throat
◉ dry cough
◉ High temperature
◉ Difficulty in breathing
◉ Loss of smell and taste
____
DO NOT keep this information for yourself only, but give it to all your family and friends.

Essential premise: as we already told you in February of this troubled year it is very unlikely that the “health workers” will rely on an anonymous chain of S. Antonio.

Healthcare professionals have prepared this message – false

This is because precisely following the first iterations of these invitations to self-diagnosis the FNOMCeO has it is expressly and explicitly forbidden for health professionals to enjoy it the increasingly common and uncontrolled use of videos and other multimedia content posted on social networks, including by health professionals, to convey messages on the infection and the situation in hospitals, and in order to create a more correct communication in line with principles of ethics and professional deontology

Something that a true health worker would know very well, thus avoiding the anonymous drafting of a chain of S. Antonio. And not only.

As we anticipated, the text mixes falsehood with truth just like in the best hoaxes. Those that, like a poisoned morsel, contain the toxic substances inside a tasty shell. And like a hungry pet poisoning itself, they push the buffalo to share because “I read you one real thing, so I trust the others”.

Symptoms begin from the third day – false

In fact, as we have had the opportunity to explain, COVID19 does not show its symptoms “from the third day”.

According to the Ministry FAQ, the incubation period goes from 2 to 11 days, in which it is not even said that symptoms will appear. The insidiousness of COVID19 arises precisely from the asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic patient, the subject who with absent or barely perceptible symptoms, however, spreads the disease in his environment and among his contacts.

Here is a list of the symptoms

A differential diagnosis between COVID19 and other flu syndromes is impossible if not carrying out the tampon.

All the symptoms attributable to COVID19 have their counterpart in the other flu syndromes that preceded and will precede it, with the difference to be sought in the extreme contagiousness of COVID19 and in the absence of therapies and vaccines that make it an insidious and lethal danger for those at risk, often people who do not know they are until it is too late for them.

And the symptoms they do not happen in stages.

And we ask ourselves what the “decomposition” inserted in the text is.

All this derives from a hoax in vogue in those months, where phantom “Wuhan uncles” advised to take advantage of the time between the onset of symptoms and their aggravation to wash the bowels with plenty of boiling water.

Also unlikely to recommend why

Drinking doesn’t keep your throat dry, drinking water doesn’t wash your lungs

In fact, drinking a lot when you are influenced takes on two fundamental functions: it keeps the body hydrated, because the body always needs the correct hydration and hydrates the throat, reducing the painful sensation of a sore throat which, paradoxically, discourages the individual from drinking and eating.

“Forcing” to drink the two liters of water a day necessary for our ordinary health is a good thing: repeatedly drinking hot or boiling water under the illusion of “washing the lungs” is a colossal and sesquipedal idiocy. In a healthy body, water does not reach the lungs, we have an epiglottis on purpose, or we would drown with every sip of water.

COVID19 binds oxygen

Anyone who has ever seen Exploring the Human Body at least once knows that red blood cells need a particular protein, hemoglobin, to carry oxygen. Hemoglobin is made up of a protein part, the depth, and a part that contains iron, theeme.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID19, contains neither.

The amount of oxygen available does not decrease because SARS-CoV-19 “steals” it (to take it where?), But because breathing simply becomes difficult and uncomfortable, and therefore the body can breathe less air, therefore less oxygen.

The return of the alkaline food hoax

The article mixes everything the evergreen hoax of alkaline foods, which appears in every DIY cure from cancer to flu.

The idea behind this authentic pseudoscience is that, by introducing alkaline foods into the blood, the acidity of the blood can be changed making the human body unlivable for cancer cells or pathogens.

Issue: if this were possible, it would be enough for us to eat an extra grapefruit to die a terrible death, or we would melt from the inside by eating certain foods.

If there is one thing our body is damn good at doing it is keeping itself alive, then maintaining the internal balance necessary to do it.

In an interesting short circuit of hoaxes we have the novaxx, the antivaxx and the COVID deniers ready to swear that the masks are harmful because “they make the PH acid” and then ready to gobble quintals of vitamin C, ascorbic acid and citrus fruits in an attempt to make the pH of their blood acidic by miraculous virtue.

And this should make you realize how little sense it makes.

For the rest, we can say that eating, sleeping and drinking healthy, taking walks and exposing yourself to the sun is good: but to say that “it cures COVID” is like telling a cancer patient that he is cured of cancer by sleeping eight hours a day and eating all the broth.

Let’s start from an assumption: we are facing the same symptoms as other forms of flu. A panoply of symptoms, fatal in patients at risk or with complications, ranging from simple colds to pneumonia with all possible middle ways.

The only effective method of diagnosis is sincerity followed by medical tests, such as the oropharyngeal swab.

The patient should, with all sincerity, declare to the doctor if you believe you have had contact with subjects exposed to COVID19, and if this happens or it is not possible to exclude it, the doctor will take the necessary measures.

It will be the doctor himself, not “the self-diagnosis of the friend of the cousin’s uncle” who will tell what to do.

And it is the patient’s duty to refer to the doctor’s opinion.

Summarizing for the laziest

The self-diagnosis of “health workers have prepared this message” is a false one because, as our medical contact explains

1. it is not written by healthcare professionals
2. it is not true that the symptoms begin on the third day nor this separation into phases
3. drinking is good but apart from the fact that it does not serve to “keep the throat dry” but at the most to hydrate it (therefore the opposite), moreover, drinking the water goes into the stomach and not into the lungs so it is not clear how drinking can “free” lungs
4. a number of reported symptoms do not belong to COVID19
5. the virus does not bind oxygen so it is not true that the quality of the blood is poor, with less oxygen because the virus steals it …
6. the advice given is good but has nothing to do with the virus
7. the question of pH has no rationale, pH measures the acidity of gases and liquids and not of viruses, bacteria or humans
8. the only way to know if you have contracted covid-19 is the swab (and not even with the swab you have 100%)

So please stop sharing immediately.

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