scholarly journals Prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection by earthing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haider Abdul-Lateef Mousa
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Supply ◽  
Blood Oxygenation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oxygen Level ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level ◽  
Antipyretic Effect ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Taste And Smell ◽  
Chest Ct Scan

Background: Earthig is a contact with earth by several means that could cause influx of electron into the body with subsequent anti-inflammatory effect, immunity enhancement, anticoagulation, rising blood oxygenation, and possible antipyretic effect. All these effects of earthing might have a substantial role in the management of patients with COVID-19 infection without deleterious side effects of ordinary medications.Objective: to investigate the role of earthing in treatment and prevention of COVID-19 infection.Design: Observational studySetting: University of Basrah, College of Medicine, Iraq.Patients: The study included 59 cases with COVID-19 infection.Interventions: All patients conducted earthing through direct contact with earth or connecting apparatus for about 15 min-3 hours/day.Measurements and Main Results: The diagnosis was confirmed by PCR test with or without chest CT-scan. There was spectacular response in a severely ill patient who was unable to speak due to dyspnea with blood oxygen level 38% on continuous oxygen supply. On the second day of three hours daily earthing, his oxygen level raised to 95% with oxygen supply and 77% without oxygen supply. After 1-3 days of earthing, most patients revealed improvement of the following symptoms: fever, dyspnea, cough, weakness, headache, chest pain, taste and smell sense loss, anorexia, and body pain. Six people were in contact with COVID-19 patients that had performed preventive earthing. They contracted mild or short-lived illness although their household were severely affected.Conclusions: The outcome of patients with COVID-19 who had performed regular and sufficient earthing showing significant curing or preventive effects that more studies on larger sample size are advocated.

scholarly journals Metabolic Acidosis in Patients with CKD: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Marcin Adamczak ◽  
Stanisław Surma
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Acidosis ◽  
Sodium Bicarbonate ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
The Body ◽  
Hydrogen Ions ◽  
Ckd Progression ◽  
New Drug ◽  
Treatment And Prevention

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Metabolic acidosis in CKD is diagnosed in patients with plasma or venous blood bicarbonate concentration lower than 22 mmol/L. Metabolic acidosis occurs in about 20% of patients with CKD. Metabolic acidosis may lead to dysfunction of many systems and organs as well as CKD progression. Currently, sodium bicarbonate is mainly used for pharmacological treatment of metabolic acidosis in patients with CKD. Veverimer is a new drug dedicated to treatment of metabolic acidosis in patients with CKD. Orally given veverimer binds hydrogen ions in the intestines and subsequently is excreted from the body with feces. Clinical studies have shown that veverimer is effective in increasing serum bicarbonate concentrations in CKD patients with metabolic acidosis. Here, we present review of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of metabolic acidosis in CKD patients. <b><i>Summary:</i></b> Metabolic acidosis is common in patients with CKD and contributes to CKD progression and many complications, which worsen the prognosis in these patients. Currently, sodium bicarbonate is mainly used in metabolic acidosis treatment. The role of the new drug veverimer in the metabolic acidosis therapy needs further studies. <b><i>Key Message:</i></b> The aim of this review article is to summarize the current knowledge concerning the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of metabolic acidosis in CKD patients.

scholarly journals Anaemia and Haemoglobin Status: A New Concept and a New Method of Assessment

1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Gross ◽  
Marcus Gliwitzki ◽  
Patrick Gross ◽  
Klaus Frank
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Supply ◽  
Haemoglobin Concentration ◽  
Tissue Level ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Blood Oxygenation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Method Of Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tissue Oxygen Supply

Traditionally, anaemia has been determined and interpreted by the magnitude and severity of iron deficiency and the impact of intervention strategies. Internationally, it is defined as a state in which the quality and/or quantity of circulating red cells are reduced below a normal level The body employs several mechanisms during the development of anaemia to maintain the oxygen supply to the tissues. Thus, applying any quantitative cut-off point as an indicator for anaemia may lead to misclassification, since haemoglobin concentration does not necessarily reflect the level of tissue oxygen supply. Ideally, an assessment strategy should be able to determine both the degree of haemoglobin oxygenation and the haemoglobin concentration at a tissue level. The Erlangen microlight-guide spectrophotometer is a non-invasive instrument that can assess both capillary blood oxygenation and relative haemoglobin concentration.

scholarly journals Role of blood oxygen level-dependent MRI in differentiation of acute renal allograft dysfunction

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Hira Lal ◽  
Ezaz Mohamed ◽  
Neelam Soni ◽  
Priyank Yadav ◽  
Manoj Jain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Allograft ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent ◽  
Blood Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Level ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level ◽  
Allograft Dysfunction

Reward Processing in Adolescents with Depression

2019 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Georgia O’Callaghan ◽  
Argyris Stringaris
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent ◽  
Reward Processing ◽  
Neural Processing ◽  
Oxygen Level ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Future Work

The role of aberrant neural processing of rewards in the development of depression has long been proposed. This commentary reviews the reward literature in adolescent depression across imaging modalities such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography methodologies. When integrating findings across studies, consistent neural abnormalities emerge, expressed as reduced striatal blood oxygen level-dependent responses to anticipation and feedback outcome phases of reward tasks, altered frontostriatal connectivity, and blunted feedback-related negativity potentials. These are observed in current depression but, more importantly, have been found to be predictive of the onset of depression in longitudinal studies with community-based adolescent samples. The evidence for the specificity of these findings to depression is discussed, in addition to a review of intervention work probing this mechanism as it relates to decreases in depressive symptomatology. The chapter makes recommendations for future work that may continue to elucidate this relationship, a greater understanding of which may lead to more targeted and efficacious treatments for depression in adolescence.

scholarly journals Anti-Idiotypic Agonistic Antibodies: Candidates for the Role of Universal Remedy

Antibodies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliya K. Stanova ◽  
Varvara A. Ryabkova ◽  
Sergei V. Tillib ◽  
Vladimir J. Utekhin ◽  
Leonid P. Churilov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Cell Functions ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Biologic Activity ◽  
Structural And Functional Properties ◽  
New Treatments

Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-IDs) were discovered at the very beginning of the 20th century and have attracted attention of researchers for many years. Nowadays, there are five known types of anti-IDs: α, β, γ, ε, and δ. Due to the ability of internal-image anti-IDs to compete with an antigen for binding to antibody and to alter the biologic activity of an antigen, anti-IDs have become a target in the search for new treatments of autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and some other diseases. In this review, we summarize the data about anti-IDs that mimic the structural and functional properties of some bioregulators (autacoids, neurotransmitters, hormones, xenobiotics, and drugs) and evaluate their possible medical applications. The immune system is potentially able to reproduce or at least alter the effects of any biologically active endogenous or exogenous immunogenic agent via the anti-idiotypic principle, and probably regulates a broad spectrum of cell functions in the body, being a kind of universal remedy or immunacea, by analogy to the legendary ancient goddess of universal healing Panacea (Πανάκεια, Panakeia in Greek) in the treatment and prevention of diseases, possibly including non-infectious somatic and even hereditary ones.

scholarly journals Negative Blood Oxygen Level Dependence in the Rat:A Model for Investigating the Role of Suppression in Neurovascular Coupling

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 4285-4294 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Boorman ◽  
A. J. Kennerley ◽  
D. Johnston ◽  
M. Jones ◽  
Y. Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neurovascular Coupling ◽  
Blood Oxygen ◽  
Oxygen Level ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level ◽  
Blood Oxygen Level Dependence

scholarly journals Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Activity in Hypothermia and Rewarming: Can RONS Modulate the Beneficial Effects of Therapeutic Hypothermia?

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma Alva ◽  
Jesús Palomeque ◽  
Teresa Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Therapeutic Hypothermia ◽  
Oxygen Supply ◽  
Reactive Oxygen ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oxygen Species ◽  
Intestinal Function ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Physiological Systems

Hypothermia is a condition in which core temperature drops below the level necessary to maintain bodily functions. The decrease in temperature may disrupt some physiological systems of the body, including alterations in microcirculation and reduction of oxygen supply to tissues. The lack of oxygen can induce the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen free radicals (RONS), followed by oxidative stress, and finally, apoptosis and/or necrosis. Furthermore, since the hypothermia is inevitably followed by a rewarming process, we should also consider its effects. Despite hypothermia and rewarming inducing injury, many benefits of hypothermia have been demonstrated when used to preserve brain, cardiac, hepatic, and intestinal function against ischemic injury. This review gives an overview of the effects of hypothermia and rewarming on the oxidant/antioxidant balance and provides hypothesis for the role of reactive oxygen species in therapeutic hypothermia.

scholarly journals On inflammatory hypothesis of depression: what is the role of IL-6 in the middle of the chaos?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elnaz Roohi ◽  
Nematollah Jaafari ◽  
Farshad Hashemian
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Responses ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Depression Symptomatology ◽  
The Brain

AbstractMany patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) are reported to have higher levels of multiple inflammatory cytokines including interleukin 6 (IL-6). Recent studies both pre-clinical and clinical have advocated for the functional role of IL-6 in development of MDD and suggested a great potential for targeting this cytokine to open new avenues in pharmacotherapy of depression. The purpose of the present narrative review was to provide an integrated account of how IL-6 may contribute to development of depression. All peer-reviewed journal articles published before July 2020 for each area discussed were searched by WOS, PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar, for original research, review articles, and book chapters. Publications between 1980 and July 2020 were included. Alterations in IL-6 levels, both within the periphery and the brain, most probably contribute to depression symptomatology in numerous ways. As IL-6 acts on multiple differing target tissues throughout the body, dysregulation of this particular cytokine can precipitate a multitude of events relevant to depression and blocking its effects can prevent further escalation of inflammatory responses, and potentially pave the way for opening new avenues in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this debilitating disorder.

Role of Yoga for the prevention & management of COVID-19-A review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1720-1724
Author(s):  
Anil Patange ◽  
Punam Sawarkar
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oxygen Level ◽  
Preventative Therapy ◽  
Standard Line ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Current Outbreak ◽  
Conceptual Study

The current outbreak of the COVID-19 has declared as a global health emergency. Moreover, COVID -19 mostly affects the persons having low immunity & mortality rate is also more in such persons. The standard line of treatment for this disease is not yet established. Considering the current need-based scenario, prevention of the disease by improving the immune system is the best & ultimate way to combat this dreadful situation. Therefore, various Yoga Practices useful for immunity building, described in Ayurvedic literature are compiled through this paper, which may become helpful to improve the strength of lungs as well as general immunity of the body. This conceptual study is narrated in a clear & tabular manner under heads of the concept of immunity in Ayurveda, the importance & advantages of Pranayam & Asanas  with Immuno-modulator effect of Yoga in COVID -19. All narration is given along with suitable discussion in contemporary science. Daily practices of Yoga play a crucial role in the improvement in the body defense mechanism by making comfortable & relaxed breathing with an increase in elastic recoiling of lungs but without increasing the respiratory rate. It also nourishes the specific organs by increasing the oxygen level in the blood. From that, it is reflected that these Yoga Practices can be used as supportive & preventative therapy for COVID -19 & can fulfill the above-said need.

Introduction to the surgical patient

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Kisiel ◽  
Maria Kisiel ◽  
Alison Smith
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Operative Procedures ◽  
Surgical Patient ◽  
Surgical Team ◽  
Tissue Specific ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Operative Complications

The surgical patient undergoes operative procedures to remove or replace diseased organs/tissue. Specific aspects of the surgical patient’s care are different to those of a medical patient’s care; these include the treatment and prevention of post-operative complications. The surgical nurse should have a good understanding of anatomy and physiology, and this chapter provides a basic overview of the anatomy of the body. This chapter also discusses the surgical patient, the role of the surgical nurse, the different members of the surgical team, the classification of surgery, and the terminology used.

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