Posted by alexandra_k on July 1, 2020, at 3:19:13
In reply to Re: how much time?, posted by alexandra_k on June 30, 2020, at 18:46:45
I keep thinking of the GI bacteria that kills the cells in the intestines so that the intestinal cells can't do their usual job of absorbing / re-sorbing food and water and vitamins...
How in developing nations kids die of dehydration because anything you put in one end basically falls out the other.
How putting a little sugar and salt into water will provide enough supportive therapy for the few days that it takes for the dead cells to basically be replaced by healthy new cells. Or paying $10 per 500ml, or whatever for 'medical grade' poweraid... Or whatever...
And I guess I was thinking of CoronaVirus like that. Affecting whatever kinds of cells there was in the lungs, like that, so the tiny little molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide couldn't diffuse across the filtration membrane...
Only I'm not sure if that seems plausible... My view of it. So... I don't know...
I wondered how long the 'supportive treatment' of ventillation would be needed for... Lung cells replace... Replace... Hur...
Renal patients the cells in the proximal convoluted tubule... Like the GI tract... Supportive dialysis for a few days before they are replaced by healthy new cells...
But lung cells...
They don't say that in the book. So maybe they don't know.
Maybe they will say in the next book. This years book. Next years book. Maybe the type one pneumocytes or the type 2 pheumocytes or whatever will have a classification as to what kind of cell they are... How quickly they replace...
There were accounts (I feared) of people saying they were trying to rip their breathing tubes out...
People on ventillators waking up, in other words, and fighting fighting fighting fighting fighting to be allowed to breathe independently...
So now there are accounts (I feared) of psychosis as a symptom / consequence of Coronavirus infection.
Because, you know. People like Barry Taylor will decide if a CoronaVirus test is right for you, and in Ventillation is right for you, and how many weeks you need to be ventillated...
Course he will.
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