Sunday, July 12, 2020

Medicine For COVID-19 Used Till Today

In this blog I want to share my sign information regarding COVID-19. It is a spherical or pleomorphic enveloped particles containing single Stranded RNA associated with a nucleoprotein with in a capsid comprised of a matrix protein.

As you all know there is no permanent treatment for the COVID-19. Treatment is done on the basis of symptoms appear in the patient. Some drugs are used which are helpful in treatment of patient. These drugs do not eliminate virus from the body but reduce the symptoms upto some extent. Here I am going to discuss some of these medicines

Firstly a combination of Azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine is recommended for COVID-19 patients.

Azithromycin is a macrolide antibiotics, since COVID-19 virus effect chest and throat, this macrolide antibiotics is used to treat chest and skin infection that’s why it is recommended

Hydroxychloroquine is recommended because it is supposed  to slow down regulation of the immune response that is less inflammation and inhibition of viral replication it could theoretically be used not only  as treatment but as prevention.

Favipiravir it inhibits the replication of viral genome .

it is now the first oral approved medication in India for the treatment of COVID-19 .favipiravir targeting key protein enzyme that the virus uses to multiply its genetic genome that is RNA inside the body.

Remdesivir it was initially developed to treat RSV, virus that causes respiratory infections. it is also used in the treatment of COVID-19 in USA .In USA, FDA granted remdesivir  as EUA. It is not a vaccine and so it cannot prevent infection but it blocks replication of viral genome.

Dexamethasone is recently recommended by WHO. It is used to treat conditions that causes inflammation, conditions related to immune system activity. There was no benefit found fore people who did not require respiratory support.

Do not use any of the above medication to treat COVID-19 patient unless your doctor recommends that you do so .

By: Rajesh Prashar

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