對抗SARS,目前唯有靠增強你的免疫功能
友人寄給我這份mail, 並已有專業人士加上了中譯, 供大家作個參考吧!
希望增加常識, 備而不用 and take extremely care!
– your friend Jennifer with regards
The fact of the mysterious pneumonia has been widely spread in HK drives me
to do a literature review on the suspected cause (i.e. coronavirus) of the
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). As a biomedical researcher, let
me show you my concern and make the following suggestions.
神秘的非典型性肺炎正在香港廣泛傳播，于是我對引起SARS(嚴重呼吸綜合征）的病因 例如冠狀病毒）作了一下研究。現在讓我從生物醫學研究者的角度給您一些建議。
The basic mechanism of viral attack is that the viruses replicate
themselves using the host's (in this case is "our") DNA genetic replication
system. By doing this, our body couldn't function well due to the massive
viral replication. Supposingly, the immune cells in our body will fight off
the infected viruses quickly. However, the viruses are so smart that they
could be able to produce some chemical substances to cause our immune cells
to die. Besides, this coronavirus is a new kind of virus which belongs to a
mutated strain and our body cannot recognize it. No antibiotics have been
proved to be 100% effective in treating viral infection so far. The only
effective way to get rid of it is by ourselves. It likes a prolonged battle
between the viruses and our immune response. In fact, viruses couldn't kill
all the immune cells in a health individual. The stronger the immune
function you have, the less the viral injury you get. Therefore, the degree
of sickness after infection and the rate of recovery mainly depends on how
strong your immune function is.
濾過性病毒能夠引起疾病的原因是，病毒能夠通過使用病人身體中的DNA基因複製系統 來複製自己。如果病毒大量複製自己，則我們的身體就不能正常工作了。于是，我們 身體當中的免疫細胞就會很快的殺掉這些感染病毒。然而，這些病毒非常聰明，他們 能夠產生某種化學物質而導致我們的免疫細胞死亡。除此以外，冠狀病毒是一種新型 的變異病毒，它不能被我們的身體識別。迄今為止, 沒有抗生素被証明能百分之百的 對付濾過性病毒。免除它的唯一有效的方法是靠我們自己。這樣，在我們的免疫系統 和病毒之間就會展開一場長時間的斗爭。實際上，病毒並不能殺死一個健康人身體中 的所有免疫細胞。人身體的免疫功能越強，此人受病毒侵害的幾率就越小。所以，在 感染病毒后的病情嚴重情況和康複的幾率基本上看此人的免疫功能有多強。
You cannot avoid the infection unless you avoid from those infected
individuals/area. But, you can try your best to boost up your immune
function by several regimes. Make sure you are "extremely healthy" at least
during this critical period. Stronger immune function could keep the viral
damage minimal even you were so unluckily being infected. Also, stronger
immune function delays the onset of any detrimental effects from the viral
infection. Scientists are now working on tracking the treatment and so make
sure you are still surviving until an effective treatment occurs. The
following suggestions aim to strengthen your immune function within a short
period of time.
你無法避免被感染，除非你不去接觸被感染者和被感染地區。但是，你可以盡你所能 調動你的免疫系統，確保你處于"非常健康"的狀態，至少在這段非常時期。如果你的 免疫系統夠強，就算你非常不幸的被感染上病毒，也會將病毒的侵害降到最低限度。
科學家們現在正在研究如何治療此種肺炎，所以一定要保証你能夠活到有效治療方法 研究出來之前。下面是一些在短時期內能夠增強你的免疫功能的方法︰
1) Antioxidant nutraceuticals: Antioxidants are chemicals found in foods
which exert a great value in strengthening our immune system. Boost up your
immune function by taking a cocktail of antioxidant supplements.
抗氧化劑︰抗氧化劑是一種存在于食品中的能夠很好增強我們免疫系統的化學物。你 可以靠服用一些抗氧化劑保健品來增強你的免疫功能︰
-- Vitamin E 1000 IU per day. Alpha-tocopherol is the biological active
form of vitamin E. There are two forms of it: d-tocopherol and
dl-tocopherol. d- is the natural form and dl- is the synthetic form. Try to
get the d- form because it is absorbed faster in our body.
--Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) 1000 milligram (mg) daily. Instead of taking
supplement, you can take 2 pieces of citrus fruits (e.g. orange) a day to
get the vitamin C
- Beta-carotene, not more than 10000 IU daily
- Selenium, 200 microgram daily
- Zinc, not more than 500 milligram (mg) daily
- Lipoic acid, 50 mg daily
- Glutathione, 50 mg daily
No any adverse effects have been reported from the above suggested
supplementation dose.
--每天服用維他命E 1000 IU (醫學國際單位，internatoinal units)。Alph-維生素E
是一種生物活性維他命E。它有兩種形式︰d-維生素E和dl-維生素E。d-維生素E自然 形式，dl-維生素E是合成形式。最好服用d-維他命E，因為它可以更快的被我們的身體 所吸收。
--每天1000毫克維他命C(抗壞血酸維生素C)。你也可以靠每天食用兩個柑桔類水果 （例如桔子）來獲取維他命C。
--Beta胡羅卜素，每天服用不超過10000IU
--硒，每天200微克
--鋅，每天不超過500毫克
--硫辛酸，每天50毫克
--谷胱甘□，每天50毫克
沒有任何人反映服用以上劑量有副作用。
2) - Let green tea to be your daily beverage because it contains tremendous
amount of antioxidant flavonoid, catechins.
- Eat more tomatoes, broccoli or fruits and vegetables in red and dark
green color. They carry a huge amount of antioxidant carotenoids, lycopene
and carotene.
--每天喝綠茶，因為綠茶中含有大量抗氧化劑類黃酮和茶酸。
--多吃西紅柿，椰菜，和其它紅色和深色的水果。
3) No intense physical activities during this critical period! It has been
shown that intense exercise will suppress your immune function (related to
the upper respiratory infection) even several days following your workout.
Instead of intense exercise, light-to-moderate workout helps if you have
been training regularly.
在這段非常時期不要做劇烈運動﹗因為劇烈運動會壓抑你的免疫系統功能（與你上呼 吸感染有關的免疫系統功能），並且此壓抑情況會持續好幾天。如果你以養成定期鍛 煉的習慣，那么在這段時間你可以做一些輕度或中度運動。
4) Make sure you get enough carbohydrate foods (e.g. rice, food
concentrated in starch... etc) because carbohydrate is the primary food for
immune cells ... Do some Gatorade or Pocari if needed since they are both
good sources of carbohydrate.
確保你食用足夠的碳水化合物食物（例如，大米及其它富含澱粉的食物），因為碳水 化合物是免疫細胞最重要的食物。喝一些Gatorade（一種飲料）或Pocari（一種飲 料），因為他們都是富含碳水化合物的飲料。
5) Make sure you get enough sleep and don't make yourself so stressful!
Anxiety, depression, and tried will influence your body's stress hormones
(e.g. catecholamine and glucocorticoids) and so suppress your immune
status.
每天保証充足睡眠，不要使自己處于緊張和壓力之下。焦慮、緊張都會影響身體的壓 力荷爾蒙（例如，兒茶酚安和糖皮質激素）從而壓抑身體免疫功能。
6) Mouth-mask helps despite it is not 100% effective. But it can still
decrease the chance from infection.
口罩雖然不能100%預防感染，但是能夠起到一定的作用，仍然可以減少被感染幾率。
All the above information are supported by peer-reviewed biomedical
literatures, that means they are credible and reliable! God bless and I
really hope that none of you will get infected and I will pray for all of
you in every moment!
以上所有信息均有生物醫學理論支持，這些建議都是可靠和可信的。上帝保佑, 我真 心希望你們中沒有一個人會被感染。我會時刻為你們大家祈
Good luck and take extremely care.
祝你們好運，千萬保重。
Parco M. Siu, MPhil, PhD Candidate
West Virginia University School of Medicine
西弗吉尼亞大學醫學院
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