The truth about products that “detoxify and filter the lungs” eat after Covid-19

“After Covid, I really need this girl to filter her lungs. Where the goods arrive, there are buyers. Use it so you don’t have to treat sequelae.”

“Post-Covid is very scary, some people have no symptoms, but when they go to have their lungs re-scanned, their lungs are white, mottled, and pitted.”

Those are the ads that hit people’s fear of post-Covid-19. Each product is offered for sale as low as 400,000 VND/box (more expensive than a box of antiviral drugs to treat Covid-19), but many people are willing to buy it.

“Pneumonia” is for sale on social networks.

Some sellers even advertise a drug that detoxifies the entire internal organs including “skin, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines” with the ingredient of vegetable juice.

Most of these drugs/functional foods have Japanese or Korean labels or are introduced as goods from Australia, the US, etc.

“I have recovered from Covid-19 for about a month, but I still have a cough, hearing many people have pulmonary fibrosis and scarring, so I am afraid. If I go to the hospital, I have to wait and take a scan, so I temporarily buy this medicine to drink, maybe there will be faster results, “said Ms. Van Anh (33 years old, HCMC).

Doctor Truong Huu Khanh, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Infectious Diseases Union, said that there is currently no medicine to purify and detoxify the lungs, nor is there any medicine to prevent or treat Covid-19 specifically.

He has repeatedly warned about the phenomenon of “following” after Covid-19 to profit, making patients expensive and confused.

“People are prone to panic when hearing information related to the lungs. Most of the patients can exercise to recover, the cases that need to deal with sequelae or rehabilitation are severe Covid-19 patients, must be in resuscitation or the vaccine phase has not been covered,” said Dr. Khanh.

Doctor Vu Dinh An, Deputy Director of the Covid-19 Treatment Center, 175 Military Hospital also confirmed that there is absolutely no drug to detoxify the lungs after Covid-19. “Many people even think that taking medicine is to remove the virus body. This is a completely wrong concept,” said Dr.

In fact, during the first 5 days of being infected with Covid-19, the patient takes antiviral drugs to prevent the virus from multiplying and push them out of the body. After this time, the body has produced antibodies that push all the viruses out. The recovered F0s (rapid test or negative PCR) mean that the body no longer has the presence of SARS-Cov-2.

“So there’s no such thing as a lung detox here,” he stressed.

An, Covid-19 Treatment Center, Military Hospital 175 had to receive many “former F0s” who self-medicated with drugs of unknown origin, leading to acute kidney failure and liver damage. He is concerned that floating drugs will cause people to buy more diseases, even exchange their lives if drug poisoning is severe.

Patients can receive post-Covid-19 check-ups at hospitals instead of buying floating drugs themselves.

Meanwhile, many “former F0” also look to traditional medicine to restore the body after a period of illness and have certain effects. Doctor, Doctor Truong Thi Ngoc Lan, Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnic Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, said that out of more than 8,000 former F0s who visited the Institute in the past time, over 50% had symptoms of cough, insomnia, hot flashes, hair loss…

According to traditional medicine, people with post-Covid-19 will have a division of symptoms of cold, heat or debilitated… Therefore, it is imperative that the patient be examined by a doctor and determined to be suffering from a physical illness. and prescribe appropriate medication.

In case the patient buys traditional medicine in pill form, or is sent home by relatives abroad, it is necessary to bring it to the doctor for advice. If the wrong form of the disease is used, the drug has no effect, but also affects the liver and kidneys. Even two drugs (Eastern-Western medicine) if used arbitrarily, can react with each other to form… poison.

“Then, who will be responsible for the patient’s health?”, Dr. Lan said.

Doctors recommend that, if after at least 4 weeks of recovering from Covid-19, patients still have symptoms of cough, fatigue, sleep disturbances, emotional disturbances, etc. Post-Covid-19 department or specialty corresponding to symptoms.

“More importantly, after being infected with Covid-19, patients need to strengthen their resistance by eating well, getting enough sleep, resting in moderation, not using alcohol and alcoholic beverages, and staying in the sun between 7:30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. 9 am,” added Dr. An.

Linh Giao