Steam Inhalation Therapy and SARS-CoV-2

 The Current Situation Of the Global Pandemic.

The world is still in terror, world leaders from both developed and developing countries are in huge debate concerning the global health issues of the pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which cause COVID-19 disease. Despite all the efforts that have been put forth on developing strong vaccines against this monster still no effective changes that have been seen towards fighting the global pandemic. Till to date only a total of three vaccine have been declared by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) these includes; 

1. Pfizer-BioNTech, 
2. Moderna,
3. Johnson & Johnson/Janssen.

but also there still more vaccines to come which are now in last phase of clinical trials of proving their safety and efficacy these includes; 

1. AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine,
2. Novavax COVID-19 vaccine.

Ever since December 2019 when COVID-19 began many people have come up with various regimen as the prescribed cause of treatment for SARS-CoV-2 this includes the use of Steam therapy (Nyungu in Swahili).

With the use of  this mode of treatment for the disease still many people are loosing their lives, the question comes then, is the Steam Therapy treatment method effective for treatments of the complications caused by SARS-CoV-2 ? Probably the answer is No.

Many African countries are highly using this mode of treatment methods thinking that it can be effective for the treatment of corona virus disease of 2019, many scientific research and sturdies have proved that steam therapy proves failure in treatment of severe respiratory tract infections. 

For instance a sturdy done at around 2012 at various emergency hospital  departments in Netherlands for people with respiratory infection showed no benefit effects of using steam inhalation therapy but rather it lead to increased hospital admission with burn injuries resulting from steam inhalation therapy, most victims were children, and needed skin grafting more often than adults. Therefore as steam inhalation therapy has no proven benefits and the number and extent of complications of this therapy in terms of burn injuries are significant, especially in children, steam inhalation therapy should be considered a dangerous procedure not to be recommend anymore.

Way forward recommendations 

I now call upon each and every person to take possible health precaution like effectively putting on face masks when in crowd places such as in public places and in public transportation where social distancing can’t be archived, also hand sanitation by frequently washing hands before touching any part of your face, applying hand sanitizer sin places where hand washing process aren’t practiced. Observing social distancing as much you can this too can help to prevent the spread of the virus.

May God Bless You As You Strive To Take All Possible Precaution Towards Fighting This Global Pandemic.

…...You can also check on my previous article on how to build immunity against COVID-19…..

Reference;

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3381273/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines.html

Authorship:

Stephenson Daniel

Email; danysmith026@gmail.com