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Forward from NHS nurse who’s sister is one of my wife’s customers wrote:
At The Princess of Wales hospital. NHS staff have been sent this:
This is the advice given to hospital staff.
It explains the virus and hopefully, how to prevent getting it.
Please share with family, friends and work colleagues.
Virus Detection:
The simplest way to distinguish Coronavirus from a Common Cold is that the COVID-19 infection does not cause a cold nose or cough with cold, but it does create a dry and rough cough.
The virus is typically first installed in the throat causing inflammation and a feeling of dryness. This symptom can last between 3 and 4 days.
The virus typically then travels through the moisture present in the airways, goes down to the trachea and installs in the lungs, causing pneumonia that lasts about 5 or 6 days.
Pneumonia manifests with a high fever and difficulty breathing. The Common Cold is not accompanied, but there may be a choking sensation. In this case, the doctor should be called immediately.
Experts suggest doing this simple verification every morning: Breathe in deeply and hold your breath for 10 seconds. If this can be done without coughing, without difficulty, this shows that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, indicating the absence of infection. It is recommended to do this control every morning to help detect infection.
Prevention:
The virus hates heat and dies if it is exposed to temperatures greater than 80°F (27°C). Therefore hot drinks such as infusions, broths or simply hot water should be consumed abundantly during the day. These hot liquids kill the virus and are easy to ingest.
Avoid drinking ice water or drinks with ice cubes.
Ensure that your mouth and throat are always wet, never DRY. You should drink a sip of water at least every 15 minutes. WHY? Even when the virus enters water or other liquids through the mouth, it will get flushed through the oesophagus directly into the stomach where gastric acids destroy the virus. If there is not enough water, the virus can pass into the trachea and from there to the lungs, where it is very dangerous.
For those who can, sunbathe. The Sun's UV rays kill the virus and the vitamin D is good for you.
The Coronavirus has a large size (diameter of 400-500 nanometers) so face masks can stop it, no special face masks are needed in daily life.
If an infected person sneezes nearby, stay 10 feet (3.3 meters) away to allow the virus fall to the ground and prevent it from falling on you.
When the virus is on hard surfaces, it survives about 12 hours, therefore when hard surfaces such as doors, appliances, railings, etc. are touched, hands should be washed thoroughly and/or disinfected with alcoholic gel The virus can live nested in clothes and tissues between 6 and 12 hours. Common detergents can kill it. Things that cannot be washed should be exposed to the Sun and the virus will die.
The transmission of the virus usually occurs by direct infection, touching fabrics, tissues or materials on which the virus is present.
Washing your hands is essential.
The virus survives on our hands for only about 10 minutes. In that time many things can happen, rubbing the eyes, touching the nose or lips. This allows the virus to enter your throat. Therefore, for your good and the good of all, wash your hands very often and disinfect them.
You can gargle with disinfectant solutions (i.e. Listerine or Hydrogen Peroxide) that eliminate or minimize the amount of virus that can enter the throat. Doing so removes the virus before it goes down to the trachea and then to the lungs.
Disinfect things touched often: mobile phone, keyboard, mouse, car steering wheel, door handles, etc ....
Sent in to us just now and we wanted to share this knowledge & advice with you all.
Please do the same and take care!
This is good information. I wonder how accurate it is? I've heard up to three days for viability on surfaces.
The more I think about it, the more this info seems inaccurate in certain respects. It says the virus hates heat and dies at 80 degrees Fahrenheit? Why can it thrive inside a human with a temp of 98.6 degrees or higher? Maybe I'm missing something.
I shared this on a cycling forum, it was reported and deleted by mods within 10 minutes.
Off hand the information provide IMHO looks like good info. So I will add my two cents:
Cycling forum - Really. They are medical experts? I am a mod on a different website (bariatric surgery). Am I a doctor or medical expert? No. But when the website was being constantly attacked by trolls, I came to their aid and they made me a mod. There are perhaps a number of reasons why a mod might remove it. For one it is medical advice from an anonymous source (a nurse who's sister is my wife client).
About the 80 degree F comment? "the virus hates heat and dies at 80 degrees Fahrenheit?" That is probably a true statement but it is missing a vitally important parameter "time".
Here is a link to an article from WHO on a different coronavirus called SARS.
First data on stability and resistance of SARS coronavirus compiled by members of WHO laboratory networkIt talks about the vulnerability of SARS coronavirus cell-culture supernatant to temperature.
Statement #1: Only minimal reduction in virus concentration after 21 days at 4°C and -80°C.4°C = 39.2°F. So this statement says at temperatures of ~ 40°F and colder this coronavirus survives quite well.
Statement #2: Reduction in virus concentration by one log only at stable room temperature for 2 days.This is saying that at Room Temperature (~ 70°F) the concentration of the coronavirus will decease one log in 2 days time.
Statement #3: Heat at 56°C kills the SARS coronavirus at around 10000 units per 15 min (quick reduction).So this is saying that at 56°C (132.8°F), the SARS coronavirus is quickly killed in a matter of minutes.
So the statement "the virus hates heat and dies at 80 degrees Fahrenheit?" is true but it doesn't say how long before it dies.
Also we do not want to mix apples with oranges. Outdoor temperatures (i.e. a virus lands on outdoor table) is very different than the temperature of the human throat. This is because if it lands on a table, it cannot replicate. The human throat is the engine for generating millions of these viruses. It is the engine of the virus production. Without the human throat, the coronavirus would cease to exist in a matter of a few weeks. If mankind became extinct, this coronavirus would soon follow.
One of the statements in the original article reads:
"The Coronavirus has a large size (diameter of 400-500 nanometers) so face masks can stop it, no special face masks are needed in daily life."
I would take exception to that statement. The COVID19 coronavirus is much smaller.
"Thus, SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the betaCoVs category. It has round or elliptic and often pleomorphic form, and a diameter of approximately 60–140 nm. Like other CoVs, it is sensitive to ultraviolet rays and heat. Furthermore, these viruses can be effectively inactivated by lipid solvents including ether (75%), ethanol, chlorine-containing disinfectant, peroxyacetic acid and chloroform except for chlorhexidine."
Source:
Features, Evaluation and Treatment Coronavirus (COVID-19)
23 Mar 2020, 5:59 pm
