This Simple Test May Help Diagnose Cytokine Storm Early On, Remember The Name If You Get sick

I urge everyone to make a print out of possible tests and drugs that may help if you should become sick and or end up at the hospital

Add it to your list of daily meds so that you can discuss your treatment options



CHEAP SIMPLE TEST

Ask for a SERUM FERRITIN test


Symptoms include high fever, enlarged spleen, excessive bleeding, low counts of all types of blood cells (red, white and platelets) and, potentially, multiple organ failures.

A cheap, simple test, widely available at most hospitals in the United States and worldwide, can help diagnose cytokine storm syndrome, Cron said.

“A protein called serum ferritin tends to get very high in this disorder,” he said.

“If you are sick enough to be in a hospital and you have a fever, you should get a serum ferritin.

It typically comes back in less than 24 hours and almost every hospital can do it, and if it’s high you can work them up for cytokine storm syndrome.”

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Keep this in mind....although the numbers are not up to date the R0 seems to be rising

It took eight months for SARS to spread to more than 8,000 people.

The Wuhan coronavirus infected over 20,000 people in about five weeks.

One month into SARS outbreak, only five people had died.

The new coronavirus had killed at least 213 people by the one-month mark.

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In the past week, at least six teams of researchers, along with the World Health Organization, have published estimates of R0 for the new coronavirus.

All these groups used different methods, but their results have been mostly consistent, with estimates hovering between 2 and 3.

WHO was a little more conservative than the others, with estimates of 1.4 to 2.5.

One Chinese team is a clear outlier, with estimates of 3.3 to 5.5.

And a British-led group initially published a high average value of 3.8 last week before revising it downward to 2.5 as new data emerged.


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Cytokine and chemokine measurement

To characterise the effect of coronavirus on the production of cytokines or chemokines in the acute phase of the illness, plasma cytokines and chemokines (IL1B, IL1RA, IL2, IL4, IL5, IL6, IL7, IL8 (also known as CXCL8), IL9, IL10, IL12p70, IL13, IL15, IL17A, Eotaxin (also known as CCL11), basic FGF2, GCSF (CSF3), GMCSF (CSF2), IFNγ, IP10 (CXCL10), MCP1 (CCL2), MIP1A (CCL3), MIP1B (CCL4), PDGFB, RANTES (CCL5), TNFα, and VEGFA were measured using Human Cytokine Standard 27-Plex Assays panel and the Bio-Plex 200 system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) for all patients according to the manufacturer's instructions.



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Thanks Bodiless for the video!







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