21.7.12: web.health/diet/
Cares Act 2020 required removing guaifenesin from asthma meds:
. why was primatene recalled?
a competitor claimed that the Cares Act 2020
required removing guaifenesin;
possibly due to it being known that
guaifenesin may cause birth defects.
but that was known at least as far back as 2003.
[ Am Fam Physician. 2003:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12825840/
Over-the-counter medications in pregnancy
Ronald A Black, D Ashley Hill.
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2517.html
]
2021.8.4, 9.15: health/immunity/covid-19/
T cells can reveal a covid infection even if antibodies waned
9.15: summary:
. if you had a mild case of covid,
or it has been a while since you've been infected,
your antibody levels may be too low to measure,
but your T cells can still be measured
to determine if you've been exposed to covid virus.
. the CDC says you should get the vaccine
even if you have been infected,
so what's the use in knowing your status?
. you may be less likely to get sick again
if the vaccine doesn't cover some variants,
but the infection does cover the variants.
. you may want reassurance after vaccination
that even if the vaccine doesn't work on your variant,
you might still be protected by your infection.
. if you believe that, the CDC reminds you,
there are significant risks to getting infected;
not just death but also strange chronic illness;
so it's safer to get vaccinated than infected.
. even for children who are prone to having
bad reactions to the vaccine,
there are even more reactions to the virus.
. without any early treatment options available
(whether by politics or science)
there will be many more deaths from virus
than there will be deaths from vaccine.
2021.9.15: health/immunity/covid-19/diet/
slow-carb fish eaters less prone to severe covid:
Jordi Merino, PhD:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210908180530.htm
"Our models estimate that nearly a
third of COVID-19 cases would have
been prevented if one of two exposures
-- [uhealthy] diet or deprivation --
were not present."
2021.7.26, 8.31: news.health/immunity/covid-19/
natural immunity after infection persists even with low antibodies:
summary:
. it is shown that after a covid-19 infection
there is long-lasting immunity
even when the antibody count is low
because covid-19 is slowly developing
thereby giving the memory cells time to react
by growing more antibodies when needed.
. the CDC recommends even those who have been infected
should get the vaccine; apparently because,
the recently vaccinated with their higher antibodies,
will be quicker at stopping the spread of the virus
than people who have survived an infection and then
slowly make more antibodies when reinfected.
. the politics of this question are based on
a dispute over the likelihood of vaccine injury.
health/immunity/covid-19/
is the risk from having African ancestry or being carb-intolerant?:
2021.2.4:
. africs (those with some African ancestry)
are said to be more prone to severe covid-19:
is it happening even to africs on a slow carb diet?
(a diet low in sugars and baked goods).
. we know that obese euros (whites)
are also prone to covid;
obesity comes from being carb intolerant,
ie, not adapting well to the
chosen level of glycemic load.
. the problem with the Western diet
is that it has both a high glycemic load
and is high in fats and stress
that cause insulin resistance.
. if africs are more prone to insulin resistance,
they need to compensate by using less carb's.
20.11.30: web,aq.med/redcross/
health/immunity/covid-19/my covid-19 antibody test is negative:
summary:
. I got a covid-19 antibody test
from giving blood to the redcross;
and it came back negative,
but while that could mean I never got exposed,
it could also mean I had a mild case of covid-19
where my immune response made very few antibodies,
and within 8 months, I make undetectable levels.
Rule out and treat infections and food allergies,Dr. Oz and Suzanna's JIA 2013.2.21:
which can aggravate arthritis.
I usually treat my rheumatoid arthritis patients
with the antibiotic doxycycline
as this has been shown to be helpful in several studies.
The question is whether it
acts as an anti-inflammatory on its own
or is killing an infection causing the arthritis.
. the infected cat's saliva enters the other cat's bloodstream.casual transmission:
. endemic in some large wild cats, such as African lions.
Unlike domestic cats, these species do not necessarily
exhibit symptoms, perhaps because
they have developed evolutionary mutations
that confer resistance.
It has never been established in HIV researchmosquitoes not a problem (whew!):
that an intermediate host, such as a mosquito or flea,
can transmit productive infection [Webb],
and the same is believed to be the case with FIV.
...
. bloodborne HIV in a syringe
can survive outside the human body
for periods up to several weeks;
viability is “influenced by virus titre,
volume of blood, ambient temperature,
exposure to sunlight and humidity” [Thompson].
While cause for concern among human drug users,
this is of little practical relevance to felines,
although the variables cited undoubtedly play some role in
an exposed environment as they do in a hypodermic syringe.
FIV, like HIV, is not particularly sensitive to
ordinary room temperature,
but is very sensitive to such variables as
pH level [AIDSMap],
a fact which accounts, for instance,
for inactivation by stomach acid.
...
Blood, of course, contains {FIV, HIV} viruses
and can be shed.
Drying does not seem to affect the infectivity of HIV,
and the same is probably true of FIV [AIDSMap].
. it is not possible to get HIV from mosquitoes.
When taking blood, mosquitoes do not inject blood
from any previous person.
The only thing that a mosquito injects is saliva,
which acts as a lubricant
and enables it to feed more efficiently.
. Capsaicin is weakly mutagenic in the Ames test, and a co-carcinogen in rats,enhancing gastric carcinogenesis.Ten percent of mice exposed to capsaicin developed duodenal cancer,versus 0% of those not exposed. A study in Mexico found that consumers of chili pepperhad a more than 5-fold increase in risk of gastric cancer(age- and sex-adjusted odds ratio of 5.49; 95% CI 2.7-11.1) compared to nonconsumers;high-level consumers had an odds ratio of 17.11 (95% CI 7.8-37.6).In India and other Southeast Asian countries, eating of chili peppers is associated withoral submucosal fibrosis, a precancerous condition of undetermined etiology.(7,22-24) .
