Sepsis is a condition that kills around 300,000 Americans every year. The problem is that there is no treatment for it. Despite the fact that many experts tried to find one, all of them were ineffective or dangerous.
A doctor mentioned that he might have stumbled upon a possible treatment for this problem. This happened in 2015 when Dr. Paul Marik was treating a woman who had a severe case of sepsis. He observed that her kidneys stopped working as well as her lungs.
He mentioned that the case was so severe that he had to think outside the box. This is when he decided to try a treatment that had shown a moderate success. This treatment consists of intravenous vitamin C. In order to make it more effective, the doctor added a low dosage of corticosteroids. He also administrated another vitamin known as thiamine.
He mixed all of these vitamins and injected the women with them. When he came back the next morning, he was expecting to see the woman dead. Instead, the woman was alive and on the road to recovery. After this case, he tried the same treatment for his next cases. When he treated more than 50 patients with this mixture, he wrote the results.
Despite the fact that this is not the usual, standard way of testing a possible treatment, the doctor was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of this mixture. Dr. Marik continued to treat his patients with this mixture. The fact that he discovered a possible treatment for sepsis could save the lives of millions of people.
Health experts have started a trial in order to test the possible treatment. They mentioned that, if the mixture is effective, it is going to have a major impact on public health. Despite the fact that many people are excited about this possible treatment, health experts warn that there were a lot of possible treatments that did not pass the follow-up research.
The fact that this possible treatment is made out of vitamin C makes people even more skeptical. Most health experts can’t believe that this simple vitamines can save so many lives. Let’s hope that it passes all of the trials and it becomes an official treatment for sepsis.
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