while researchers around the world are looking for a reliable means of dealing with the coronavirus infection, a Duma Deputy from the faction of the Communist party Elena Shuvalova published in their social networks loud post: in her opinion, a reliable means of crown – leeches. Many fans of folk medicine happy, but most doctors from such statements bewildered.
first Deputy Shuvalov caught conspiracy: “there is an assumption that the method of treatment is sought where implementation of promises is not a pittance, and millions of dollars and euros. In this regard, it is possible to ignore the search for cheap, but centuries-proven methods. I probably should researchers and for them to pay attention. For example, penicillin was invented from the mold.” And then moves to the fact, demonstrating medical knowledge, without having medical education: “the Doctors say pneumonia during coronavirus infection develops from blood clots in microvessels adjacent to the pulmonary alveoli. But already 3 thousand years known creatures that produce enzymes that thin the blood and prevent blockage of blood vessels. It – leeches. Sucking leech injects into the blood of substances having her thinning effect. In result it improves microcirculation, decreases the likelihood of thromboses swelling. Enzymes leeches have anti-inflammatory action. By the way, in 1350 in Florence, the Prince Marchionne di Coppo Stefani successfully used leeches to fight the plague. The beginning of a systematic study of the medical effects of the leeches put doctor Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. Pies widely used leeches during the Crimean war and the Caucasian expedition. No wonder the Swedish scientist, Creator of the uniform system of classification of flora and fauna Carl Linnaeus gave the Latin name of leech: Hirudo medicinalis – medical leech”.
Now, perhaps, many voters Deputy rush for gated ribbons urban areas with nets: look for these wondrous creatures. Servant of the people warn them: in the swamps to catch leeches is not necessary, they should be searched there and there. And of course there is something there they are not handed out for free.
But what the doctor says about these methods of prevention and treatment of coronavirus infection? In General, their opinion about hirudotherapy in the struggle with the crown reduced to a succinct phrase: Russian urine against doctor’s scalpel. Some sad joke that in light of the optimization method has the right to life: drugs cost money, and the leeches in a nearby swamp to catch free. “Hirudotherapy is somewhat marginal variant of anticoagulant therapy. Prevention and treatment kovida some blood-thinning drugs is not limited to”, – note in this case m��wild.
says the doctor of the City clinical hospital №1 Mikhail Gilyarov, business duremara continues to live: “the Therapeutic effect of leeches is extremely difficult to dose, moreover, does not exclude the possibility of bacterial infection. Now created a much more efficient and more predictable drugs anticoagulants, because leeches are not used. References a century of experience is not a significant argument in modern medicine. I think we should not make recommendations in those areas where the person is not an expert or person and the public should be more careful giving such advice, to use unproven methods of treatment.”
the Oncologist Perm regional Oncology center David Maerov from the statement of the Deputy in slight confusion: “Pirogov widely used during the Crimean war? So I’m curious about the cauterization with a hot iron, a cupping someone will remember? On the bleeding, too, perhaps, can make? In General, this idea is not nonsense only in the sense that, under certain conditions, the patient requires correction of coagulopathy. But to solve this problem with leeches is not. Not because drugs are easier, but because leech is an unmanaged process. We are talking about critically ill patients, not “to correct the body at a reasonable cost”. Here it is strange why for a radical victory over the virus, no one advises to take cyanide? Took it once, and you are no Davidov, no pneumonia and no resirene”.
As the Chairman of the Moscow society of physicians Pavel Vorobiev, “leeches don’t produce so much, and their anticoagulant effect is impossible to dose. They make a direct anticoagulant – hirudin. But in Russia it is not registered and the world is not very popular. Much easier to make direct oral anticoagulants, and in the hospital to introduce low-molecular heparins. This therapy is recommended by the Moscow society of physicians with 25 January, and in mid-April, included in the recommendations of the Ministry of health. Not fully, but still.”
However, political analyst Gleb Kuznetsov in your comments to post Shuvalova absolutely wild the proposed method does not consider and does not exclude the possibility of its application in the total absence of drugs in many Russian regions: “If there is no low molecular weight heparins and plasma, and there are leeches, why not try? The more that low molecular weight heparins end outside the major centres. As well as everything else. I see no sin in the fact that the doctors used that is, when there are no drugs, no understanding of the disease, and about monoclonal antibodies 90% of doctors in the country can only to read on the Internet. And never let them see.”
Therefore, waiting for new people’s councils of people’s deputies.
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