When in doubt, we go to Wikipedia for reliable information.
In the case of the treatment of respiratory infections, whether a little cold or a little covid, Wikipedia advises us to dole out acetaminophen. Using ignorant advice from Wikipedia, without doubt, some parents have already caused grave harm to their children.
In its commitment to be part of established order, Wikipedia's efficient censorship has silenced simple effective cures available against covid. Now, however, Wikipedia wants to do more: it advises a treatment that weakens our immune system. Wikipedia's advice can be deadly.
Treatment and management of COVID-19
There is no specific, effective treatment or cure for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.[1][needs update][2] Thus, the cornerstone of management of COVID-19 is supportive care, which includes treatment to relieve symptoms, fluid therapy, oxygen support and prone positioning as needed, and medications or devices to support other affected vital organs.[3][4][5]
Most cases of COVID-19 are mild. In these, supportive care includes medication such as paracetamol or NSAIDs to relieve symptoms (fever, body aches, cough), proper intake of fluids, rest, and nasal breathing.[6][2][7][8] Good personal hygiene and a healthy diet are also recommended.[9] The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that those who suspect they are carrying the virus isolate themselves at home and wear a face mask.[10]
People with more severe cases may need treatment in hospital. In those with low oxygen levels, use of the glucocorticoid dexamethasone is strongly recommended, as it can reduce the risk of death.[11][12][13] Noninvasive ventilation and, ultimately, admission to an intensive care unit for mechanical ventilation may be required to support breathing.[14] Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used to address the issue of respiratory failure, but its benefits are still under consideration.[15][16]
Several experimental treatments are being actively studied in clinical trials.[1] Others were thought to be promising early in the pandemic, such as hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir, but later research found them to be ineffective or even harmful.[1][17][18]
Wikipedia presents faith-based medicine, whose foundation are the beliefs of ignorant politicians and their selectively ignorant medical advisors.
It's offensive that Wikieditors choose to say not a word about prevention, about vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, quercetin, but do care enough to give us some good smarmy advice of keeping "good personal hygiene" to beat covid.
It's murderous for Wikipedia to advise using paracetamol. Self-evidently, all covid infections are mild for a few days. Since, as shown below, paracetamol weakens us, this is ignorant advice, if given by a lawyer; it is criminal advice, if given by an ignorant medical doctor.
Dr. John Campbell, presents science-based medicine, in his books and YouTube videos. On March 17 2020 he cited a study in the National Review of Immunology, as follows: “There is mounting evidence that the increase of 1 C degree (2 F degrees)... is associated with improved survival and resolution of many infections.”
Dr. Campbell explains that use of antipyretics (medications that lower fever, such as aspirine, paracetamol/acetaminophen, ibuprofen) to lower fever, correlates with a 5% increase in mortality. Even stronger effects were observed in animal studies. In rabbits infected with rinderpest virus, use of antipyretics to reduce fever, resulted in a mortality increase, from 16% to 70%.
Try to understand it, good Wikipedia volunteer writers: 16% of the poor rabbits died of rinderpest, but if you helped them along with paracetamol/acetaminophen or aspirin, 86% died. Please stop advising poor ignorant mothers to give that poison to the kids! You do that, in the knowledge that 458 Americans died in 2003 of acetaminophen poisoning, as per Wikipedia. Children may die even when given the proper dosage, as detailed below.
Viruses operate best at our normal body temperature, and are weakened by higher temperatures. Fever is a mechanism that allows our immune system to battle viruses and bacteria more efficiently. This was not understood in past millennia. But we have entered a new one, and it's time to adjust our habits to current, leaving behind ancient beliefs and customs.
In regard to our current little Covid-19 problem, reducing fever allows one to go to work and spread the illness. A very serious problem, when poor people are worried about losing their job if they call in sick.
MEDICAL STUDIES ON THE DANGER OF ASPIRINE, PARACETAMOL/ACETAMINOPHEN, ETC
Here are a few medical studies, from sources, I dare say, generally recognised as reliable:
Janeway's Immunobiology (Page 110): "at higher temperatures, bacterial and viral replication is less efficient, whereas the adaptive immune response operates more efficiently."
2014 Science. Fight the Flu, Hurt Society? "Lowering your body temperature may make the virus replicate faster and increase the risk that you transmit it to others."https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/01/fight-flu-hurt-society
2014 Proceedings of the Royal Society. <<Population-level effects of suppressing fever For millennia, humans have suppressed fevers without understanding the potential effects beyond the obvious alleviation of symptoms. Antipyretic drug treatment is extremely prevalent in Western countries—especially by parents, and also by healthcare professionals.
Widespread use of aspirin in 1918 may have increased disease severity, and consequently death rates, during the pandemic, and experimental research in humans and other animals suggests that antipyretic use may increase the risk of death from serious infections.
Exceptionally high rates of antipyretic treatment in children might contribute to the disproportionate role that children play in influenza transmission…if amelioration of symptoms led to a lengthening of the infectious period by 20%, the number of estimated attributable cases would increase by 19.2%>> https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2570
1975 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association,
<<Increased virus shedding with aspirin treatment of rhinovirus infection>> https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/360371
2010 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,
<<The effect on mortality of antipyretics in the treatment of influenza infection: systematic review and meta-analyis"
Conclusion: "The risk of mortality was increased by antipyretic use in influenza-infected animals… An increased risk was observed with aspirin, paracetamol and diclofenac.>>
2006 Surgical infections
<<The Effect of Antipyretic Therapy upon Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients: A Randomized, Prospective Study
Background: Despite the large body of evidence suggesting a beneficial role of fever in the host response, antipyretic therapy is commonly employed for febrile critically ill patients. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of antipyretic therapy strategies on the outcomes of critically ill patients.
Patients admitted to the Trauma Intensive Care Unit… were randomized on day three of the ICU stay into aggressive [44 patients] or permissive [38 patients] groups. The aggressive group received acetaminophen 650 mg every 6 h…
There were seven deaths in the a. group and only one death in the p. group… The study was stopped after the first interim analysis due to the mortality difference
Conclusions: Aggressively treating fever in critically ill patients may lead to a higher mortality rate.>> https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/sur.2005.6.369
MEDICAL STUDIES ON THE DANGER OF ACETAMINOPHEN/PARACETAMOL
2003 Bulletin of the World Health Organization <<Evidence on the use of paracetamol in febrile children Antipyretics, including acetaminophen (paracetamol), are prescribed commonly in children with pyrexia [fever], despite minimal evidence of a clinical benefit… hepatotoxicity has occurred with recommended dosages in children. No evidence shows that it is beneficial to treat febrile children with paracetamol.>> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12856055/
1998 Journal of Pediatrics Acetaminophen overdose with therapeutic intent. This review documented 47 children aged between five weeks and 10 years who developed hepatotoxicity [liver poisoning] after taking doses of paracetamol ranging between 60 and 420 mg/kg/day… The mortality rate was high: half the children died (24 deaths), and three survived after they received liver transplants. Six children with hepatotoxicity had received doses of paracetamol within, or only slightly above, the approved dose (<100 mg/ kg/dany). Journal of Pediatrics 1998;132:5-8.>>
Note that six of the children suffering paracetamol/acetaminophen poisoning had received normal approved doses. In the rest of cases, both parents might each have given a dose to make the fever go away faster—a not too rare event.