None of the medical reports talk about the ameliorating the course of the disease BEFORE hospitalization.
No one is surveying those who had bad cases but stayed out of the hospital, to determine if they have anything in common wrt treating themselves which might have reduced the severity of the disease "enough."
I think people should presume that they will get infected prior to a vaccine or local herd immunity. Even if you don't know if it is seasonal flu, a cold, or COVID-19, you can take the same steps:
My take is to investigate the utility of:
1) do not become hypoxic. Use a pulse oximeter, and if it starts to drop, use an oxygen generator. This requires medical input to set up the machine, and that you happen to have one. Must take un-assisted oxygen level readings regularly, so a trend leading towards a crash might be identified.
2) use a challenge spirometer to keep track of respiratory difficulty. This may not keep you out of the hospital, but might be evidence to admit you sooner. Or let you know when your breathing is improving.
3) Mega dose on OTC anti-inflammatories. Ten days or so should not be toxic.
Whether they will overly upset your stomach cannot be predicted.
4) monitoring blood pressure is quite simple, but I don't know how it might provide actionable data. But it may be useful trend data if you do go to the hospital.
Has anyone found instructions for doing a differential diagnosis between seasonal flu and COVID-19? Presuming scarce tests are only used when there is a high suspicion of COVID-19, and the time lag between test & results, and the high false negative rate -- I don't see how knowing that you have it can help keep you out of the hospital. I suppose it might help to get you admitted a day or two earlier, if your symptoms worsen.
No one is surveying those who had bad cases but stayed out of the hospital, to determine if they have anything in common wrt treating themselves which might have reduced the severity of the disease "enough."
I think people should presume that they will get infected prior to a vaccine or local herd immunity. Even if you don't know if it is seasonal flu, a cold, or COVID-19, you can take the same steps:
My take is to investigate the utility of:
1) do not become hypoxic. Use a pulse oximeter, and if it starts to drop, use an oxygen generator. This requires medical input to set up the machine, and that you happen to have one. Must take un-assisted oxygen level readings regularly, so a trend leading towards a crash might be identified.
2) use a challenge spirometer to keep track of respiratory difficulty. This may not keep you out of the hospital, but might be evidence to admit you sooner. Or let you know when your breathing is improving.
3) Mega dose on OTC anti-inflammatories. Ten days or so should not be toxic.
Whether they will overly upset your stomach cannot be predicted.
4) monitoring blood pressure is quite simple, but I don't know how it might provide actionable data. But it may be useful trend data if you do go to the hospital.
Has anyone found instructions for doing a differential diagnosis between seasonal flu and COVID-19? Presuming scarce tests are only used when there is a high suspicion of COVID-19, and the time lag between test & results, and the high false negative rate -- I don't see how knowing that you have it can help keep you out of the hospital. I suppose it might help to get you admitted a day or two earlier, if your symptoms worsen.