Those of you who are reading weibo may know that there was such a hot search yesterday.
He said that a family of three in Dalian had been diagnosed with COVID-19. The mother took Traditional Chinese medicine on the advice of experts, and continued to breastfeed the 3-month-old baby. The baby’s fever subsided soon after, and subsequent review showed that both the baby girl and her mother had developed antibodies.
Before the reader here, if have seen “effective measurement, must be effective? “this article, or have seen the day before yesterday I recommend this book, you should not think such a thing have what good strange, such things are on the hot search is strange.
For readers with some scientific thinking ability, such hot search is not misleading, but there are still a few people who have such ability. Therefore, we can see that in the comment section of this popular microblog, apart from a few critical voices, the most popular comments are those of thumb up.
Such hot search, or issued by the state-run media news, hot comments also is such, no cognition to these problems of the small white mother if you see, it is very easy to the formation of such cognition: the child because mother eat traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) were cured, the child is ill, can through the way of my mother to take medicine to cure, which can cause great harm.
There are also a lot of people on Weibo asking me to talk about it, and there are also some comments from people backstage asking me to talk about it, so I would like to write this article to explain.
How good is the child’s new crown?
In individual cases, it’s hard to know exactly why, but based on current medical knowledge, the two biggest possibilities are the child’s own immune system and the antibody protection that breast milk provides.
The infant’s immune system, though imperfect, is still the body’s main protective system for preventing and clearing infections, as is the case with COVID-19. In addition, based on the previous clinical studies, children infected with COVID-19 generally have less symptoms than adults, and the proportion of critically ill patients is also lower, and most of the self-healing occurs [1]. These self-healing basically depends on the role of the child’s own immune system.
As for the role of breastfeeding, there are also studies suggesting that breastfeeding has a protective effect on respiratory tract diseases [2]. Based on these relevant evidences, it is reasonable to speculate that breastfeeding also has a protective effect on infants against COVID-19 infection.
Mother takes Chinese traditional medicine, Chinese traditional medicine cured the child through breast milk next, have this kind of possibility? Hardly any.
Now without any kind of clinical drug is by my mother to take medicine to cure their children, this is because if you keep eating drug, through the mucous membrane filtration mother digestive system, reduce the part of consumption will continue to the metabolism of liver and kidney after into the blood, the blood drug concentration was low, the concentration is too long. The blood of the drug, if you want to enter breast milk, but also need to pass the blood milk barrier filtration, originally very low blood drug concentration, finally into the amount of breast milk is very small.
This minimal amount of medicine has to be filtered through the child’s digestive system, as well as the metabolic cost of the child’s liver and kidney functions, so it is almost impossible to maintain the drug concentration in the child’s blood that can treat the child.
And medicine has side effects are usually, if the amount of unlimited increase the mother to take medicine to improve the drug concentrations in the breast milk, may need to improve a little concentration mother eat a lot of times medicine, probably the mother own poison poured still short of drug concentration for the child’s disease, make so trouble than to feed the child medicine directly. So there is no a drug is by my mother to take medicine, use “milk feeding medicine ” way of treating children.
But if you say: did not have before, be equal to now and hereafter also will not have? Perhaps traditional Chinese medicine and breast milk are similar through the antibody in breast milk or other active cytokines to the child produced therapeutic effect?
This possibility, of course, also can’t say no, but from the current evidence and logic to see this is a blind alley, you want to run into difficulty, of course is their freedom, but take out the possibility of such a small thing, misleading, make other breastfeeding mothers feel can be treating children in this way, lead to the mother suffered from drug overdose or delay the child formal treatment, is a disguised form of murder.
If I’m responsible, if I want to publicize this kind of thing, I need at least a little bit of proof. Is this kid in Dalian evidence? If you count, people are also psychic, as evidenced by the pictures below.
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