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Can Vitamin C Prevent and Treat Bacteria or Viruses?

  • By Dr. Alan Darush
  • 13 Mar, 2020

High Dose Vitamin C As a Immune Booster

Disclaimer:   Please note that currently there is no medication or therapy available to treat Coronavirus.   These therapies in this article is purely used as an immune booster and it is not a treatment for Coronavirus. 
As more and more people are being infected with Coronavirus, scientist and doctors are looking for potential therapies to treat or prevent Coronavirus.  Now Chinese teams are adding high dose Vitamin C and Thiamine to the list of potential therapies against viruses.  Vitamin C or Thiamine have not proven to be a treatment for coronavirus.  It will take significant amount of time and clinical studies to get approval from FDA for potential Coronavirus treatment.  Chinese doctors and department of critical care medicine in Wuhan has initiated clinical studies to test efficacy of Vitamin C infusions for the treatment of severe respiratory infections associated with Coronavirus.  

Vitamin C studies are promising as an immune booster  as it reduces the inflammation and damage to the lungs.   Coronavirus infection is a serious and potentially deadly due to the cells  in the lungs release fluids and inflammation from body reaction and induces Cytokine (chemicals released from the cells to kill the virus) which damages the surrounding cells.   This process forces further inflammation in the local area and fibrosis (scarring of the lungs). 

Vitamin C high doses (DarMon Cocktail) is an antioxidant that may help reduce inflammation and fibrosis (scarring) of the lungs.  During severe infection, the body tends to deplete all of its Vitamin C and is in need of replenishment.   Unlike animals which are able to synthesize Vitamin C during infection stress to the body, human bodies are not able to synthesize Vitamin C.  

Immune cells need vitamin C to synthesize protein to fight against viruses and bacterial infections.  Intravenous Vitamin C can produce immediate effect and help boost the immune system.   Supplemental pills likely do not have the ability to increase the levels dramatically.   

Clinical studies have shown that Vitamin C reduces the inflammatory response and it prevents and shortens the duration of the common cold and flu like symptoms.   The study also indicates that insufficient Vitamin C increases the risk of organ failure, poor body response and severity of the influenza.  

It is common medical knowledge that high doses of Vitamin C is needed to reduce the severity of flu like symptoms, but does it work on Coronavirus? The body needs vitamin C to function properly and to deal with the stress viruses induce.  

Currently, there is no effective medication for CoronaVirus.   The main treatment of Coronavirus is supportive care to manage symptoms and allow your body to build immune system against Coronavirus.  

During clinical trials, participants received 10 times more vitamin C on a daily basis.  There are many more clinical trials now in china and the US working on high dose Vitamin C for treatment of COVID-19.  Shanghai Medical Association has actually released an expert consensus statement on the comprehensive treatment of COVID-19 where they endorse the use of high dose IV Vitamin C for the illness.  

Preliminary results of the clinical studies are very promising based on the medical investigators in china.   

Disclaimer:  Please note that currently there is no medication or therapy available to treat Coronavirus.  These therapies in this article is purely used as an immune booster and it is not a treatment for Coronavirus.







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El cóctel DarMon es una mezcla de vitaminas de grado médico que se usa para tratar pacientes críticos que
sufren infecciones severas en el hospital, llamada sepsis*
Este es un cóctel médicamente diseñado. Sus componentes han sido implementados en pacientes gravemente
enfermos o sépticos en los hospitales, con el respaldo de múltiples ensayos clínicos que han mostrado
disminución de la mortalidad y tasas de hospitalización de pacientes enfermos.

DarMon Cocktail reduce la mortalidad en pacientes sépticos en comparación con placebo. Disminuyendo el
efecto de disfunción orgánica en pacientes. Por lo tanto, los resultados del estudio respaldan el papel prometedor
del cóctel de vitaminas intravenosas adyuvantes en dosis altas para pacientes sépticos. (Nota: este cóctel se usó
como complemento de otros tratamientos en la UCI).

Durante una enfermedad grave, nuestro cuerpo no puede producir de una manera eficiente ciertas vitaminas
para combatir los factores estresores y de oxidación a los que son expuestos las células debido a la
enfermedad. Los humanos no podemos sintetizar la vitamina C, la cual es indispensable para combatir los
efectos oxidativos del proceso de inflamación, responsables del daño biológico y posteriormente falla múltiple de
los órganos. La aparición de oxidación durante una enfermedad grave (sepsis o infecciones respiratorias) tiende
a disminuir las funciones normales de las células debido a la baja circulación de vitaminas; Por lo tanto, el uso
de vitamina C en la sepsis es crucial para la restauración de su déficit durante la enfermedad.

La vitamina C es nuestro antioxidante central, que elimina directamente los radicales libres, previene la
producción de oxidación y restaura otros antioxidantes, reduciendo la muerte celular y la inflamación. Además, la
vitamina C es un neuroprotector, inmunomodulador, que ayuda al cuerpo a combatir infecciones. Las infecciones
(ya sea por bacterias o virus) llevan a apoptosis o muerte celular a través de la oxidación y el estrés, La vitamina
C que ayuda al cuerpo a combatir de una manera más eficaz este ataque abrumador.

Se necesitan altas dosis de vitamina C durante una enfermedad crítica. La dosificación de vitamina C depende
del peso del individuo y el efecto eliminador de la vitamina C se basa en la cantidad de vitamina C en el sistema
circulatorio. DarMon Cocktail es perfectamente ajustado, y personalizado para cada paciente de acuerdo a sus
peso, historia clínica y necesidades fisiológicas. En pacientes críticamente enfermos, la dosis más alta de
vitamina C i.v. tuvieron mejores resultados que las dosis más bajas.

La Tiamina es otra vitamina que juega un rol importante. Los niveles de tiamina también se reducen a la mitad en
pacientes sépticos o enfermos. La deficiencia de esta vitamina reduce la actividad de las enzimas dependientes
de tiamina que está relacionada con la producción de energía, el mantenimiento y preservación funcional de las
células . El papel principal de la tiamina es ser antioxidante y proteger el sistema nervioso. La tiamina se agota
en los alcohólicos y puede causar una lesión cerebral grave llamada síndrome de Wernicke-Korsakoff. Los
pacientes alcohólicos que se presentan en el hospital reciben tiamina para protegerlos del síndrome de
Wernicke-Korsakoff.

¿Qué es la sepsis?
La sepsis es potencialmente mortal debido a la disfunción orgánica causada por una infección de respuesta
abrumadora y shock séptico " como un subconjunto de la sepsis en la cual las anomalías subyacentes del
metabolismo circulatorio y celular son lo suficientemente profundas como para aumentar sustancialmente la
mortalidad
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