AVIAN (BIRD) FLU
Treatment of the Bird Flu with massive doses
of ascorbate would be the same as any other flu except that the severity of the
disease indicates that it may take unusually massive doses of ascorbic acid
orally or even intravenous sodium ascorbate. (Why the dose needed is
somewhat proportional to the severity of the disease being treated is discussed
in my paper published in 1981, Titrating to Bowel
Tolerance, Anascorbemia, and Acute Induced Scurvy.) I have not seen any flu
yet that was not cured or markedly ameliorated by massive doses of vitamin C but
it is possible that the bird flu may require even higher doses such as 150 to
300 grams a day.
Additionally, this flu could be primarily respiratory. This means that
hospitalization might be necessary. If massive doses of ascorbate are not
used, they may not be adequate. Most hospitals will not allow adequate
doses of ascorbate to be given.
Therefore, it may be up to the individual patient to have materials available
for their own use. These doses are easily tolerated by most but are much higher than doses thought high by
99.9% of the population. Therefore, be very careful to read and
understand this site. If you want to use this ascorbate treatment in case
you come down with this flu, please read all this now and be prepared. I
have seen runs on the market before with flues and you might not be able to buy
ascorbic acid or have some physician give you sodium ascorbate intravenously
when you need it. Also, if you are not experienced with taking massive
doses of ascorbic acid, practice before you have to. Ascorbic acid is
usually well tolerated by young people but it may be that if you have the
slightest thing the matter with your stomach, esophagus or intestines, you
better work with this before a crisis occurs and you have problems that you find
too late. Some people will have minimal gastritis that is no symptomatic and not even know it.
So practice and get help if you need it before a crisis.
The probable reason that birds carry this virus but it does
not kill all of them is because birds make their own ascorbate. It does
kill some of the birds because this H5N1 strain is very toxic and exceeds
the ability of the birds to make sufficient ascorbate in these fatal cases. Humans do not
make ascorbate. However, in our chemical plants we can make more ascorbate
than a bird. We just have to know how to use it
properly and adequately.
Serum levels of ascorbate should be tested because they will
be found
to be zero. Then it should be obvious that massive doses of ascorbate
should be used.
Because of the "cytokine cascade" which is described as
massive in cases of bird flu, the initial doses of ascorbic acid should also be
massive. I would suggest like 12 grams every 15 minutes until diarrhea is
produced. Then, however, doses should be reduced but not much.
Listen to your body. If there are many symptoms, keep taking doses that
cause a little diarrhea. You do not want constant runs because it is the
amount you absorb that is important, not the amount you put in your mouth.
Since all flues have some cytokine cascade and since I have not hospitalized a
single patient with a flu, it is hard to believe that massive doses of ascorbate
would not be extremely helpful in suppressing the cytokine cascade in a bird flu
pandemic. However, the disease will have to be hit hard and fast to
prevent serious respiratory difficulties because the first target is the lungs
and respiratory difficulties may have to be treated with a respirator which will
not be available in adequate numbers in case of a pandemic.
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Control
Measures Fail To Stop Spread Of New H5N1 Bird Flu Virus
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Still the ascorbate treatment is kept secret. It does not matter
which form of flu emerges, they all kill and cause symptoms by way of free
radicals. Eliminate the free radicals with massive doses of ascorbate and
there will be no deaths. The problem is that most diseases cause symptoms
by way of free radicals and if the whole public discovers this it would be a
financial disaster for the drug industry.
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Avian
Influenza Difficult to Diagnose in Humans
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Note that "autopsy revealed alveolar hemorrhage. Interval between onset and
death was between 10 and 15 days." It takes that long for the induced
hypovitaminosis C to reach the degree of scurvy and then a few days for the
hemorrhage to start. All of this, of course, can be prevented with massive
doses of sodium ascorbate intravenously and perhaps, if you are a good ascorbic
acid taker, by bowel tolerance doses of ascorbic acid.
ROBERT F. CATHCART III, M.D.
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