MANGALURU: Boil six leaves of night-blooming jasmine (parijatha) in 200ml of water and get ready a 100ml kashaya. Add black pepper powder and 3 drops of lime juice. Consume the mixture three times or four occasions an afternoon; consume honey with onion extract frequently. This is one of the ‘home treatments’ towards the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) doing the rounds on social media.
While researchers are yet to find a treatment for the virus, messages at the ‘power of Indian herbs’ has stuck the attention of social media customers, particularly those on WhatsApp.
“These home treatments should be condemned outright,” said Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya, a specialist doctor. “Nipah is a serious infection involving the mind and it causes encephalitis. Such sufferers want immediate hospitalisation and extensive care. Most sufferers require artificial ventilation until the virus subsides.
Kakkilaya printed only one antiviral drug has proven effective to this point. According to newspaper experiences, the Kerala govt has procured 2,000 such drugs and has placed orders for another eight,000 drugs.
Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, CHD Group, also rubbished the house treatments. “Let on my own any home treatment, there is no treatment for NiV,” he said. He prompt the general public not to believe such messages and chorus from circulating them.
“The messages circulating on social media, particularly WhatsApp and promotion of alternative sorts of medication to treatment NiV should be not noted,” Fernandes said. “Any building of illness during such occasions is best attended to via the medical group best.”
Ayurvedic docs, too, claim there is no treatment as yet for NiV. “Any medication has to fulfill sure standards to be released available in the market. There is not any treatment for NiV in Ayurveda as yet,” Dr Gautham Alva of Alva’s Ayur Care said.
The first identified case of Nipah transmission to human used to be reported in the late 1990s. So far, around 600 such cases had been reported the world over. The previous two outbreaks reported in the country – Siliguri in 2001 and Nadia in 2007 – noticed a fatality charge of 68% and 100% respectively. The reasonable mortality charge in these 600-odd cases is between 50% and 70%.
According to the Union ministry of health, 11 of the 13 showed cases of Nipah in Kerala have died.
While researchers are yet to find a treatment for the virus, messages at the ‘power of Indian herbs’ has stuck the attention of social media customers, particularly those on WhatsApp.
“These home treatments should be condemned outright,” said Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya, a specialist doctor. “Nipah is a serious infection involving the mind and it causes encephalitis. Such sufferers want immediate hospitalisation and extensive care. Most sufferers require artificial ventilation until the virus subsides.
Kakkilaya printed only one antiviral drug has proven effective to this point. According to newspaper experiences, the Kerala govt has procured 2,000 such drugs and has placed orders for another eight,000 drugs.
Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, CHD Group, also rubbished the house treatments. “Let on my own any home treatment, there is no treatment for NiV,” he said. He prompt the general public not to believe such messages and chorus from circulating them.
“The messages circulating on social media, particularly WhatsApp and promotion of alternative sorts of medication to treatment NiV should be not noted,” Fernandes said. “Any building of illness during such occasions is best attended to via the medical group best.”
Ayurvedic docs, too, claim there is no treatment as yet for NiV. “Any medication has to fulfill sure standards to be released available in the market. There is not any treatment for NiV in Ayurveda as yet,” Dr Gautham Alva of Alva’s Ayur Care said.
The first identified case of Nipah transmission to human used to be reported in the late 1990s. So far, around 600 such cases had been reported the world over. The previous two outbreaks reported in the country – Siliguri in 2001 and Nadia in 2007 – noticed a fatality charge of 68% and 100% respectively. The reasonable mortality charge in these 600-odd cases is between 50% and 70%.
According to the Union ministry of health, 11 of the 13 showed cases of Nipah in Kerala have died.
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