OK, first of all I asses myself as an helthy individual at my 36 yrs (BMI 22.6, regularly cycling and hardening in cold water in nature in the past two years - Wim Hof my ass, was doing that before it was fancy). But still first day of covid struck me quite hard (awful headaches, 39 celcius fever, on 4th day loss of smell and taste). Tomorrow I am starting my day 5, so hopefully I will only get better and wont infect anyone in my family.
BUT! There are many questions I had and never could find any answers - everyone just says stay at home, isolate yourself, if you cant breath call ambulance. But can you help somehow your body fighting the virus?
So based on science and not mumbo jumbo of your granny who believes that corona is caused by billionaires or fast internet I found out:
a) dosages of Vitamin D can help your immunity (normally in healthy food such as fish, beef). most of it you get from sunshine, but harder to get sunshine if you are being isolated at home during winter in the mountains, right.
b) cleaning your mouth/nose with salt water (or salted at least) regularly. Or even mouthwash.
c) I feel "swell" in my nose (even if I CAN breath by nose) so I was wondering - should you use any nasal sprays to reduce that swell? Never found an answer.
d) First 2-3 days I was fighting with two things - the terrible headaches (only Brufene worked for me, not paracetamol) and the "knowledge" of my whole life that fever around 38-39 is actually good for your health because it helps you fight the deseases. So I took brufene only when the headaches were beyond "bearable" and trust me I have had severe headaches through my life. I found only studies about brufene as painkiller affecting the covid - some said its bad, others its good. So I use it only when in deep need. No studies mentioned the fever - is it good, should you resist painkillers (who often work also as antipyretic drugs).
e) I try to do some breathing excercises till I can. Even with the weird alltime pressure on the chest. Like deep breaths, long ones etc. you know yogi-bear shit. I open my window VERY often to get fresh air in my isolation room. The hell its minus 5 ouside I have two blankets. Is that good? Dont know but fresh mountain air never hurt anyone (unless you live in filthy industrial district in Asia).
f) I never found out any information about the symptoms - if you have more of them and which what is the outcome of the desease? Or how long they do they last? If you have high fever only 2 days, will you be ok? If you have pressure on chest combined with loss of smell, are you gonna have mild or severe version? Is there any connection to any of those symptoms? I hear lots of stories of people who had only headache or only loss of smell. Nothing else. Can you do something to "diminish" any of those symptoms and will it help you in the long run? I am not talking about cure - there is not any, but it seems bit weird, that all the health organisations and hospitals only list the symptoms and say that 1-7 start, 8-12 you either go healthy or severe (days 13-30). Well maybe I would like to know more about the symptoms and if you shoudl try to somehow fight them :-).
Well thats what was on my mind past 4 days. I am keeping my diary, maybe I will make to a timeline.
