Because there is no corresponding vaccine, and the high incidence of acute respiratory diseases is in winter and spring, experts remind the public that a healthy lifestyle is very important to prevent this disease. Citizens should strengthen physical exercise, rest more, avoid overwork and not smoke; When an epidemic situation is discovered, contact with poultry should be avoided as far as possible, and food such as chicken should be thoroughly cooked; Keep the indoor air circulating and try to go to places where the air is not circulating as little as possible; Pay attention to personal hygiene and cover your mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing. In addition, pay attention to the disinfection of household appliances. Avian influenza virus is sensitive to organic solvents such as ether, chloroform, acetone, heat and ultraviolet rays. It can be heated at 56℃ for 30 minutes, 60℃ for 10 minutes, 70℃ for 2 minutes, in direct sunlight for 40~48 hours, using common disinfectants.
Since June 5438+February 2003, H5N 1 subtype avian influenza virus has caused 6 1 person death in Asia.
Bush's announcement of the plan to prevent bird flu in the United States is like facing an enemy and waiting for it. The Australian Health Minister even announced that all airports and seaports would be closed. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed David. Dr. nabarro warned the United Nations High-level Coordinator of Avian Influenza that if avian influenza broke out, 5 million to 654.38+0.5 billion people would die. Avian influenza has aroused great concern in the international community.
To fight against avian influenza, preventive measures are mainly taken, such as disinfection, isolation and vaccination (strictly speaking, no effective vaccine against avian influenza has been developed yet).
Prevention is one thing, so how to treat bird flu when you are sick? No one knows at present, and it can't be found in books. Although people are dead, effective treatment methods have not been summarized.
People have been snapping up and storing an anti-cold drug called Tamiflu, which is said to treat bird flu. That demand exceeds supply. What medicine is Tamiflu? It is a medicine made from the extract of Illicium verum.
According to the British Independent 10 and 15, Illicium verum, a traditional Chinese medicine in China, may be the only effective way to fight avian influenza in the world. When bird flu caused people to panic, scientists found that this traditional Chinese medicine had an unexpected unique effect of inhibiting bird flu virus. The effective component of Tamiflu to inhibit avian influenza virus is shikimic acid, which comes from Illicium verum.
How do people get infected with bird flu and what will happen after getting sick?
First of all, avian influenza has the characteristics of epidemic, infectious and viral diseases. The prerequisite for the onset is that you must have an epidemiological history, have been to an epidemic area or are in an epidemic area, have been in contact with infected poultry, or have patients (if the virus mutates from person to person). After the incubation period of 7 days, patients may have fever, runny nose, cough, sore throat, headache, general malaise and other similar cold symptoms. Fever body temperature may last above 39 degrees, and some patients may also have digestive tract symptoms. Highly contagious, the patient's disease spreads rapidly, with symptoms of viral pneumonia such as high fever, cough and asthma, multiple organ failure such as respiratory failure, heart failure and renal failure, and the mortality rate is extremely high. The current data is 50%-60%.
Judging from the clinical symptoms and the severity of the disease, western medicine calls it "upper respiratory virus infection" and "viral pneumonia", while Chinese medicine calls it "wind-heat cold" and "pneumovirus"-belonging to plague. In the early stage of the disease and the period of pulmonary infection, the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is superior, and in severe cases or when multiple organ failure occurs, the treatment of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine is superior to that of simple western medicine.
The clinical manifestations of the whole process from the above onset to death are very similar to SARS, which is also an epidemic, infectious and viral disease. China has the most mature experience and the most effective treatment in the prevention and treatment of SARS. And at present, Chinese medicine has been adopted as the main treatment method. Therefore, it should be effective to treat avian influenza by imitating SARS. The Hong Kong government has told people to abide by the anti-SARS law.
Moreover, in recent decades, Chinese medicine has never failed to prevent and treat such diseases characterized by epidemic, infectious and viral diseases. Its experience, methods and drugs can be used for reference in the treatment of avian influenza.
Meningitis broke out in Beijing from 65438 to 0955, which is an epidemic, infectious and viral disease. At that time, the conditions of western medicine were poor and the treatment effect was not ideal. Zhou Enlai ordered Zhou Pu, a famous TCM doctor at that time, to be responsible for organizing clinical research and treatment of TCM. At that time, he used the method of treating the plague in Qing dynasty, mainly using the Chinese medicine "White Tiger Decoction", and the epidemic situation was quickly controlled. Strangely, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis broke out in Shijiazhuang the following year, and then "White Tiger Decoction" was used as the main treatment, but the effect was not obvious. Chinese medicine experts found that this place is humid and sultry in the rainy season. According to the principle of "correspondence between man and nature, treatment based on syndrome differentiation", Baihu decoction was added with traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and promoting diuresis, which achieved immediate results. Its prevention and treatment experience was popularized everywhere, and there was no big outbreak of meningitis later.
Hepatitis A broke out in Shanghai in 1980s, which is also an epidemic, infectious and viral disease. At that time, Shanghai people ate Scapharca subcrenata, which led to virus infection. At that time, almost all hospitals in the city were crowded with patients, and even the corridors and aisles were put with beds. A dose of Chinese herbal medicine is hard to find, and the epidemic prevention drugs Isatis indigotica and Artemisia capillaris sell at sky-high prices. As a result, Shanghai was in trouble, and the whole country supported it, and a large number of Chinese herbal medicines were sent from all over the country. Finally, Chinese herbal medicine was used to control the epidemic.
In the 1980s, there was an outbreak of dengue fever in Hainan. At that time, the Ministry of Health authorized Guangdong Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to set up a tropical diseases research institute, and a group of professors of traditional Chinese medicine went to Hainan to treat diseases, which also solved the problems with traditional Chinese medicine. Dengue fever is also an epidemic, infectious and viral disease. All of the above shows that Chinese medicine has a practical role in controlling this "plague".
On the other hand, conventional western medicine antiviral treatment, such as antiviral, interferon, dipyridamole, hormones and so on. , in the treatment of common viral infections, the effect is not ideal, there are many side effects, and it is not outstanding in epidemic, infectious and viral diseases. As for whether Tamiflu is the first choice, it is not considered as the best from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, because even though the drug has a strong specific pharmacological effect of inhibiting avian influenza virus, its effect is limited to one aspect, lacking the comprehensive effect of multi-factor, multi-function and multi-target of traditional Chinese medicine compound. In dealing with avian influenza, traditional Chinese medicine compound not only has broad-spectrum antiviral effect, but also has detoxification effect.
Instead, I recommend a simple and practical "big bowl of tea". Because so far, only this method has been tried and tested. Do you remember? Whenever there is an epidemic of influenza or epidemic diseases, there are buckets of China herbal tea on the streets, stations and docks, or at the gates of primary and secondary schools in big cities in China, and each passerby has a bowl. With the health care conditions in China, with such a large population, it is impossible for one person to get an injection and one person to get a box of medicine, and this indigenous herbal tea is really effective!
Therefore, if there is an unfortunate outbreak of avian influenza, no matter what measures the government and medical institutions take temporarily, the most practical, effective and easy thing to do is to take Chinese medicine every day for prevention and treatment during the epidemic.