Blood clots are coming to the foreground of this virus. This is a lot more than the flu.
April 24, 2020
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
...The patient’s chart appeared (click here) unremarkable at first glance. He took no medications and had no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of the country, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head.
Oxley gasped when he got to the patient’s age and covid-19 status: 44, positive.
The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the coronavirus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74....
The statistics regarding this phenomena is important for anyone doing the research. Blood types and body chemistry (full chemical profile) including nutritional status for components that create the very clotting cascade can be part of all that for any pattern. It there a low level of vitamins and minerals in these victims of COVID-19?
April 22, 2020
New York — As the novel coronavirus (click here) spread through New York City in late March, doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital noticed something strange happening to patients' blood.
Signs of blood thickening and clotting were being detected in different organs by doctors from different specialties. This would turn out to be one of the alarming ways the virus ravages the body, as doctors there and elsewhere were starting to realize.
At Mount Sinai, nephrologists noticed kidney dialysis catheters getting plugged with clots. Pulmonologists monitoring COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilators could see portions of lungs were oddly bloodless. Neurosurgeons confronted a surge in their usual caseload of strokes due to blood clots, the age of victims skewing younger, with at least half testing positive for the virus.
"It's very striking how much this disease causes clots to form," Dr. J Mocco, a Mount Sinai neurosurgeon, said in an interview, describing how some doctors think COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is more than a lung disease. In some cases, Mocco said, a stroke was a young patient's first symptom of COVID-19....
I am thinking that victims of the clotting issue have poor quality food intake and as a result have a low STORE of all the elements of a healthy blood system. If the virus has a demand of its own for certain nutritional stores in order to replicate, it may be using up the stores of the patient/victim. When the stores of the elements supplying the clotting cascade are reduced, the blood clotting is triggered.
IV lipids and parenteral nutrition.
Poor nutritional status is often found in the poor and elderly.
April 1, 2020
By Roni Caryn Rabin
Neurologists around the world (click here) say that a small subset of patients with Covid-19 are developing serious impairments of the brain.
Although fever, cough and difficulty breathing are the typical hallmarks of infection with the new coronavirus, some patients exhibit altered mental status, or encephalopathy, a catchall term for brain disease or dysfunction that can have many underlying causes, as well as other serious conditions. These neurological syndromes join other unusual symptoms, such as diminished sense of smell and taste as well as heart ailments.
In early March, a 74-year-old man came to the emergency room in Boca Raton, Fla., with a cough and a fever, but an X-ray ruled out pneumonia and he was sent home. The next day, when his fever spiked, family members brought him back. He was short of breath, and could not tell doctors his name or explain what was wrong — he had lost the ability to speak....
