Among the methods of treating COVID-19 that are found on the Internet, there are tips to consume soda and hydrogen peroxide inside. Soda - to fight acidification of the body, and peroxide - supposedly to prevent oxygen starvation. In fact, none of these products, when taken internally, will help in terms of preventing or treating coronavirus infection, assured physician Georgy Sapego.
Hydrogen peroxide is used to treat wounds, rinses, you can even use it to treat some surfaces at home, but you should not count on it to help fill the lack of oxygen in the body, he said in an interview with Sputnik radio.
"If you ingest a little hydrogen peroxide, it is very quickly neutralized upon contact with the oral cavity, saliva, esophagus and stomach. If there is more of it than is acceptable, then in the worst case, there will be abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting. Those few drops of peroxide. hydrogen, which is recommended to be taken in some folk recipes, will add to us no more than a few milligrams of oxygen per day. In fact, every day a person consumes almost a kilogram of oxygen. That is, these few milligrams will have no effect on anything", - said Georgy Sapego.
The properties of soda to affect the acid-base balance will also not help in the self-treatment of coronavirus infection, the doctor explained. According to him, soda is still a topical remedy for heartburn, although it is not the best drug for neutralizing stomach acid, it is not recommended for pregnant women, the elderly and children. The ability of baking soda to neutralize acid in the blood is sometimes used by athletes who resort to so-called alkaline doping, he said.
"This is no longer medicine, but doping. If intense physical activity lasted seven minutes or so, then the athlete will have more acid in his blood than he would like. A portion of soda, taken in advance, neutralizes the acid, and some athletes may in just a few minutes to increase efficiency. But such a trick does not always work, it makes him sick, and only initially healthy young and strong people practice this business", - stressed Georgy Sapego.
You cannot take soda on your own to alkalize the body with coronavirus infection: "A sick person will not get any benefit in everyday life from such an alkalization of the body. Alkalinization of a sick person with soda can only be in intensive care, when he is already very bad. This is not home treatment".