Can aspirin treat the new coronavirus? What medicine is effective for the new coronavirus?

We all know that the new coronavirus is a serious infectious disease recently. It is highly contagious. Many people have been infected and sick, and the number of infections is still increasing. So can aspirin treat the new coronavirus? Let's take a closer look!

Can aspirin treat the new coronavirus?

No.

There is news that taking a small dose of aspirin (5-20 mg) can reduce inflammation and reduce blood viscosity. Data show that some people infected with the virus have increased plasma dimers, which means that blood viscosity increases and blood flow slows down. This situation is not conducive to the movement of immune cells, but is conducive to viral replication.

The development of aspirin has a history of 120 years. Initially, people valued aspirin's antipyretic, analgesic and anti-rheumatic effects. Later, it was discovered that aspirin also has the effect of anti-platelet aggregation, and has a certain protective effect on patients at high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

As the number of people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases increases, more and more people are taking aspirin. As a result, many people who do not understand the pharmacology of aspirin have begun to believe in aspirin and call it a "magic drug", using it everywhere, as if it can do everything. But in fact, whether it is antipyretic, analgesic, or antiplatelet, even its side effects are all produced by inhibiting cyclooxygenase (COX), and this mechanism of action has nothing to do with antiviral.

In order to highlight its "scientificity", this rumor deliberately introduced the term "plasma dimer". Plasma dimer refers to a specific degradation product of fibrin in the blood after hydrolysis. Many disease states such as myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, tumor, pulmonary embolism, surgery, infection, tissue necrosis, etc. can cause its increase. Its increase means judging the patient's coagulation state and has nothing to do with the virus itself.

Aspirin can inhibit platelet aggregation and further prevent the activation of fibrinogen, which will reduce fibrin degradation and reduce plasma dimers. However, this is only a treatment for patients with a high risk of coagulation, not a specific drug for the treatment of COVID-19.

What medicine is effective for the new coronavirus

The new coronavirus is a newly discovered type of pneumonia that is extremely harmful to human life and is easily spread and infected. There is no specific medicine yet, and we can only control its spread and infect healthy people. Please wear a mask when going out, wash your hands frequently and pay attention to personal safety and hygiene.

There is currently no specific medicine to treat pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus. In fact, to put it bluntly, there are no drugs that can treat human diseases caused by viruses. Those who are now so-called cured and discharged from the hospital are basically those who have overcome it due to their own immunity, so the best way is to rest more and improve immunity.

There is no specific medicine for it at present, but different treatment plans are implemented according to different conditions of the disease. However, every day, there are confirmed patients who are cured and discharged from the hospital.

There is no specific medicine yet, but the scientists in research and development are working day and night on it. I believe that a specific medicine will be available soon. Now we can only rely on ourselves to protect ourselves by wearing masks, washing hands more often, and going out less.

Three drugs have a good inhibitory effect on viruses

On the 28th, a series of good news came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: the institute has just developed antibody test strips for research; at the same time, the institute and the Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences jointly discovered three "old drugs" such as Remdesivir (GS-5734), Chloroquine (Sigma-C6628), and Ritonavir, which have a good inhibitory effect on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) at the cellular level. Their subsequent clinical use is going through the relevant procedures for approval.

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A total of 5,974 cases of novel pneumonia have been confirmed nationwide# According to the National Health Commission, from 0:00 to 24:00 on January 28, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) reported 1,459 new confirmed cases, 263 new severe cases, 26 new deaths (25 in Hubei Province and 1 in Henan Province), 43 new cured and discharged cases, and 3,248 new suspected cases (including 1 in Tibet). According to Health Times, from the first announcement on the epidemic on December 30, 2019, the number of confirmed cases of "novel pneumonia" within 30 days exceeded the number of confirmed cases of "SARS" in 2003 (5,327 cases).