Hi Tex,
Thanks for the kind offer. Mom's head caregiver managed to pick up some dust masks at the Ace hardware store in rurul Maryland for me.
I just flew back from California. Business seemed to be the usual for the airlines.
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Those will probably work just as well as surgical-type masks. The main thing is to get a decent air seal on the face. None of them provide iron-clad protection from a virus, anyway. They're just something that might help.
I'll bet some of the international flights are beginning to shrink, as businesses cancel business trips to destinations outside the country.
Tex
I'll bet some of the international flights are beginning to shrink, as businesses cancel business trips to destinations outside the country.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Is there even a possible upside to those with autoimmune diseases?
"Women have intrinsically different immune responses to men. Women are more likely to suffer from auto-immune diseases, and there is good evidence that women produce better antibodies to vaccines against flu," says Prof Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia
"Women have intrinsically different immune responses to men. Women are more likely to suffer from auto-immune diseases, and there is good evidence that women produce better antibodies to vaccines against flu," says Prof Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia
Maybe I haven't been following this closely enough, but it appears to me that most of the fatalities (by far) are men. Isn't that the case, or have I been listening to the wrong news?
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Well, even though MC is a cloud in our lives, I've always maintained that it has a silver lining. Maybe increased resistance to viruses is that silver lining. It's nice to think so, anyway.
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
I think the big silver lining at least for North America is that long term we will have some factory production pulled back from
China to the US/Mexico/Canada/Caribbean (Dominican Republic). It won't be immediate but I believe there will be a trend in moving production back to our hemisphere over the next 5 years or so.
China to the US/Mexico/Canada/Caribbean (Dominican Republic). It won't be immediate but I believe there will be a trend in moving production back to our hemisphere over the next 5 years or so.
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vitamin D and Respiratory Tract Infection British Medical Journal. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
That depends on your current blood level of D3. If it's below about 50 ng/mL (125 nmol/L), I would take 10,000 IU per day until my level was over about 60 or 70 ng/mL (150 or 175 nmol/L), then drop back to 5,000 IU per day to maintain it in that range. If you feel that you're developing the virus, Dr Cannell (of the Vitamin D Council) wrote the quote below during the H1N1 threat:
How To Survive A Deadly Flu Pandemic
Tex
That's a quote from the thread at the link below:. . . if you get this flu, take 2,000 IU per kg of body weight per day for a week.
How To Survive A Deadly Flu Pandemic
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Henry,
I doubt that a low maintenance dose of budesonide will present a major obstacle for maintaining resistance, but of course it's bound to have at least a small effect. Sometimes we have to do what we have to do. We have to weigh the personal risk/reward ratio and do whatever we feel is best. We need to keep our resistance up, but remember that if the immune system has to fight an MC flare, it may be distracted from any other risks, and that probably wouldn't be good.
I've upped my vitamin D and vitamin C supplement rate.
Tex
I doubt that a low maintenance dose of budesonide will present a major obstacle for maintaining resistance, but of course it's bound to have at least a small effect. Sometimes we have to do what we have to do. We have to weigh the personal risk/reward ratio and do whatever we feel is best. We need to keep our resistance up, but remember that if the immune system has to fight an MC flare, it may be distracted from any other risks, and that probably wouldn't be good.
I've upped my vitamin D and vitamin C supplement rate.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Greengoddess,
Thanks for that link. I didn't have that reference bookmarked previously. It certainly adds support for our opinion on vitamin D.
Tex
Thanks for that link. I didn't have that reference bookmarked previously. It certainly adds support for our opinion on vitamin D.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.