MANGALURU: Boil six leaves of night-blooming jasmine (parijatha) in 200ml of water and prepare a 100ml kashaya. Add black pepper powder and 3 drops of lime juice. Consume the mixture 3 times or 4 occasions a day; devour honey with onion extract continuously. These are probably the most ‘home treatments’ towards the Nipah virus (NiV) doing the rounds on social media.
While researchers are but to find a cure for the deadly virus, messages on the ‘power of Indian herbs’ has stuck the eye of social media customers, especially WhatsApp.
“These home treatments should be condemned outright,” said Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya, a specialist physician. “Nipah is a significant infection involving the mind and it causes encephalitis. Such patients need quick hospitalisation and in depth care. Most patients require artificial air flow until the virus subsides.
Kakkilaya claimed only one antiviral drug has proven efficient so far. According to newspaper studies, the Kerala govt has procured 2,000 such drugs and has ordered for every other 8,000 drugs.
Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, CHD Group, also rubbished the home treatments. “Let by myself any home treatment, there is no treatment for NiV,” he said. He steered the general public not to consider such messages and refrain from circulating them.
“The messages circulating on social media and in addition the promotion of different forms of medicine to cure NiV should be disregarded,” Fernandes said. “Any development of illness right through such occasions is best attended to through the clinical group simplest.”
Ayurvedic medical doctors, too, said there is no treatment as but for NiV. “Any medicine has to fulfill sure standards to be launched in the market. There is not any treatment for NiV in Ayurveda as but,” Dr Gautham Alva of Alva’s Ayur Care said.
The first known case of Nipah transmission to human was reported within the late 1990s. So far, around 600 such instances have been reported the world over. The previous two outbreaks reported within the nation – Siliguri in 2001 and Nadia in 2007 – noticed a fatality price of 68% and 100% respectively. The average mortality price in these 600-odd instances is between 50% and 70%.
According to the Union ministry of well being, 11 of the 13 confirmed instances of Nipah in Kerala have died.
While researchers are but to find a cure for the deadly virus, messages on the ‘power of Indian herbs’ has stuck the eye of social media customers, especially WhatsApp.
“These home treatments should be condemned outright,” said Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya, a specialist physician. “Nipah is a significant infection involving the mind and it causes encephalitis. Such patients need quick hospitalisation and in depth care. Most patients require artificial air flow until the virus subsides.
Kakkilaya claimed only one antiviral drug has proven efficient so far. According to newspaper studies, the Kerala govt has procured 2,000 such drugs and has ordered for every other 8,000 drugs.
Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, CHD Group, also rubbished the home treatments. “Let by myself any home treatment, there is no treatment for NiV,” he said. He steered the general public not to consider such messages and refrain from circulating them.
“The messages circulating on social media and in addition the promotion of different forms of medicine to cure NiV should be disregarded,” Fernandes said. “Any development of illness right through such occasions is best attended to through the clinical group simplest.”
Ayurvedic medical doctors, too, said there is no treatment as but for NiV. “Any medicine has to fulfill sure standards to be launched in the market. There is not any treatment for NiV in Ayurveda as but,” Dr Gautham Alva of Alva’s Ayur Care said.
The first known case of Nipah transmission to human was reported within the late 1990s. So far, around 600 such instances have been reported the world over. The previous two outbreaks reported within the nation – Siliguri in 2001 and Nadia in 2007 – noticed a fatality price of 68% and 100% respectively. The average mortality price in these 600-odd instances is between 50% and 70%.
According to the Union ministry of well being, 11 of the 13 confirmed instances of Nipah in Kerala have died.
Kashaya doesn’t cure Nipah: Mangaluru docs
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