Could a simple gas produced by our bodies be used to treat COVID-19? Canadian trials underway

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A clinical trial examining the use of nitric oxide as a treatment for COVID-19 has been expanded, as a Canadian company explores how its nasal spray might protect front-line workers and those suffering from the disease.

TORONTO -- In the race to find an effective, low-cost treatment for COVID-19, a powerful molecule that has long captured the attention of medical researchers is gaining popularity.

SaNOtize Research has been given a $400,000 grant from the National Research Council and is now conducting phase two of a clinical trial on people at high risk for contracting COVID-19, including front-line workers, and those with mild symptoms of the disease. Nitric Oxide has many properties -- it’s produced by cells that line our blood vessels to helps control blood pressure and open the airways in the lung, allowing more oxygen to be absorbed.SaNOtize's nasal spray is designed designed to “disinfect” your upper airway using nitric oxide. Initial tests of the company's product suggest that the spray inactivated more than 99.9 per cent of SARs-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, within two minutes during laboratory tests.

Discovered in the 1980s, nitric oxide is already approved for use in helping improve oxygen levels in premature babies and is used in some cardiac procedures and drugs for erectile dysfunction. “We were able to document that she was feeling better and better as we provided her with the nitric oxide, until day 15, 16 where we want to begin to wean the medication off.”

Scientists in Boston and Louisiana are also giving several hundred severely ill patients nitric oxide, with preliminary results expected in the coming weeks. Several devices that produce nitric oxide have also been given the green light for testing in the U.S.

 

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CTV - the national outlet for iffy pseudoscience!!

They didn't make a vaccine for SARS! Their not likely going to find a way to make a vaccine for Covid19!

Donald Trump is president. There is no hockey. Bob and Doug are in space and the gas coming out my body can stop a world wide pandemic. WTF is next?

Weapons of mass destruction = Bad. Weapons of ass destruction = good

Great, now dumbschits everywhere are gonna start inhaling Nitrous oxide.....

More like the gas being produced by the media. Btw all the riots in the states and hardly any cops are wearing masks.

Oh Shit AndrewScheer, you can finally be a hero

Highly doubtful IMO

Finally people will appreciate the aftermath of my elevator visits

Helps males with sex!!!!!

I get lots of gas. So, my farting can used to treat the 'Virus'?

Fart?

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