我一直呼籲感冒不要吃感冒退燒藥,因為「感冒退燒藥是西醫百年來的大騙局」,但是「感冒藥治感冒」是西醫臨床醫師(及藥師、藥廠)一筆龐大的收入,每年健保在感冒這一項的支出高達近300億(256億)。感冒藥濫用後續還會帶來過敏性鼻炎、氣喘、鼻竇炎、腺樣體肥大、中耳積水、中耳炎、過動症、暴牙…… 等等後續「相關產業鏈」的併發症,其支出就更加難以估計了。
西醫一直堅持認為吃感冒藥不會破壞免疫力,只是會更爽(台大小兒科網紅蒼藍鴿的說詞https://youtu.be/Arc7Gfh0sEg?feature=shared ),這種論調誤導很多民眾,甚至因而致死。
中醫西醫對感冒一直有不同的觀點,中醫認為百病(感冒)起於風寒,西醫則認為風寒不會引發感冒,只有病毒存在才會引起感冒,並且長期對中醫的「風寒感冒說」嗤之以鼻。
底下來看看林燦城醫師VS多數西醫對感冒觀點的比較。
感冒到底是「風寒」還是「病毒」引起的?(林燦城醫師的觀點)
這是西醫一直以來的觀點(台灣基層醫學會)
打破感冒迷思 文‧王英明(家醫科 小兒科專科醫師)
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我的觀點是,病毒雖然是引起感冒的主體,但受寒導致免疫力的下降,讓原本就存在體內的感冒病毒有可乘之機,才會引發感冒。受寒是引發感冒很重要的因素,因為寒冷不利於抵抗病毒。當受到感冒病毒侵襲之後,身體為了自救,才會將體溫升高(這是免疫系統的第二道防線),有人做過研究,體溫每上升1℃,抵抗病毒的能力增加5倍。
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西醫一直不認同「風寒引起感冒」的中醫論點,現在西方的科學證據來了,直接打臉西醫的這項認知。這是一篇2022/12/06發表在美國AAAAI的科學期刊。我將原文摘錄下來,利用GOOGLE CHROME的即時翻譯分享,讓大家一起來判斷。有興趣的朋友也可以點連結去看原文。
本篇論文大致重點如下:
1. 鼻腔是呼吸道與外界接觸的第一關
2. 鼻腔內有一種對抗病毒的細胞extracellular vesicles (EVs)
3. 外界溫度下降時,鼻腔的溫度下降首當其衝,EVs活性降低
4. 由室溫(23.3°C)換到低溫(4.4°C)時,對抗病毒的EVs減少42%,誘餌受體decoy receptors流失高達 77%,這種減少導致病毒複製增加一倍。
(全部SUMMARY 見簡潔示意圖)
************身體受寒抵抗力降低引發早已存在體內的感冒病毒作亂,已經很清楚了。身體遭受感冒病毒入侵時,以升高體溫來自救,也是理所當然之事。所以發高燒不會燒壞頭殼,發高燒可以阻止病毒破壞頭殼,吃退燒藥退燒才會頭殼壞去,甚至會引發腦膜炎而喪命。
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相關資訊閱讀:
題目:感冒為何不該吃感冒退燒藥(之一)
題目:感冒為何不該吃感冒退燒藥(之二)
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底下是原文及GOOGLE翻譯
Cold exposure impairs extracellular vesicle mediated nasal anti-viral immunity
Published: December 6, 2022
寒冷暴露會損害細胞外囊泡介導的鼻腔抗病毒免疫
發布日期:2022年12月6日
The upper respiratory tract is one of the first sites of contact between the outside environment and inside the human body. 上呼吸道是外在環境與人體內部首先接觸的部位之一。When pathogens are inhaled, the upper respiratory tract triggers an array of immune responses to protect itself against these pathogens. 當吸入病原體時,上呼吸道會觸發一系列免疫反應來保護自己免受這些病原體的侵害。 The incidence of respiratory viral infections is highly affected by seasonal changes, but an answer to the crucial question of why people are more vulnerable to catching the common cold during the winter months and its underlying biological mechanisms remain understudied. 呼吸道病毒感染的發生率受季節變化的影響很大,但為什麼人們在冬季更容易感冒以及其潛在的生物學機制這個關鍵問題的答案仍未得到充分研究。
In a recent issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), Huang et al. report a new virus-fighting immune mechanism inside the nose, 在最近一期的《過敏和臨床免疫學雜誌》(JACI)中,Huang 等人。報告了一種鼻內新的抗病毒免疫機制which is mediated by extracellular vesicles (EVs) – small lipid enclosed particles that are naturally released from cells and is deficient in cold. 該機制由細胞外囊泡(EV)介導,細胞外囊泡是一種由細胞自然釋放的脂質包裹小顆粒,在寒冷環境下缺乏。They first evaluated the anti-viral activity of EVs in vitro using human nasal cells and live nasal mucosal tissues. 他們首先使用人類鼻細胞和活鼻黏膜組織在體外評估了 EV 的抗病毒活性。 They also identified several protective cargos that are carried by EVs to fight off respiratory viruses, including microRNAs (miRNAs) and surface receptor proteins. 他們還發現了 EV 攜帶的幾種抵抗呼吸道病毒的保護性物質,包括微小 RNA(miRNA)和表面受體蛋白。 To test how colder temperatures affected this virus-fighting immune mechanism, 為了測試較低溫度如何影響這種抗病毒免疫機制,they took healthy volunteers from a room temperature environment (23.3 °C) and exposed them to colder temperatures (4.4 °C), 他們讓健康志願者離開室溫環境(23.3°C),暴露在較低的溫度(4.4°C)下,measured the temperature drop inside the nose, and applied this reduction in intranasal temperature to in vitro nasal cell and tissue cultures. 測量鼻內溫度的下降,並將這種鼻內溫度的下降應用於體外鼻細胞和組織培養。
Viruses triggered an EV swarm response from nasal cells using the Toll-like receptor-3 (TLR3) signaling pathway, 病毒利用 Toll 樣受體 3 (TLR3) 訊號路徑觸發鼻細胞的 EV 群反應,which is involved in activation of innate immune defense against the virus. 參與活化針對病毒的先天免疫防禦。EV swarms exhibited potent anti-viral activity against two rhinoviruses and a coronavirus that are typical of the common cold season. EV群對兩種鼻病毒和一種常見感冒季節的冠狀病毒表現出強大的抗病毒活性。Upon EV release from cells, they delivered anti-viral miRNAs to uninfected host cells, protecting them from viruses. 當EV 從細胞中釋放出來時,它們將抗病毒 miRNA 傳遞給未感染的宿主細胞,保護它們免受病毒侵害。 Another interesting anti-viral mechanism is that the EVs acted as decoys, 另一種有趣的抗病毒機制是,EV 充當誘餌, carrying surface receptors that the virus would bind itself to instead of the uninfected host cells. 攜帶病毒會結合的表面受體,而不是未感染的宿主細胞。This virus-fighting immune response mediated by nasal EVs was blunted by cold temperatures. 這種由鼻腔EVs介導的抗病毒免疫反應因寒冷的氣溫而減弱。Cold exposure induced a nearly 42% decrease in EV secretion with reduced anti-viral miRNA packaging and up to 77% loss of decoy receptors. 冷暴露導致 EV 分泌減少近 42%,抗病毒 miRNA 包裝減少,誘餌受體流失高達 77%。This impaired immune response resulted in up a doubling of viral replication within infected nasal cells. 這種受損的免疫反應導致受感染的鼻細胞內的病毒複製增加一倍。
This investigation is of unique clinical relevance in that all cell culture data were directly validated in live human nasal mucosal tissues taken from fresh surgical specimens. 這項研究具有獨特的臨床意義,因為所有細胞培養數據均在取自新鮮手術標本的活體人類鼻黏膜組織中直接驗證。 Findings in this study thereby not only discover a new immune mechanism inside the nose that fights off viruses causing upper respiratory infections 這項研究結果不僅發現了鼻腔內一種抵抗引起上呼吸道感染的病毒的新型免疫機制,but also explain why people are more susceptible to colds in the winter season. 也解釋了為什麼人們在冬季更容易感冒。
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) is an official scientific journal of the AAAAI, 過敏和臨床免疫學雜誌(JACI)是AAAAI(American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology: AAAAI)的官方科學期刊,and is the most-cited journal in the field of allergy and clinical immunology. 是過敏和臨床免疫學領域被引用最多的期刊。