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[ineffabelle]

As far as I can tell, if you could sustain a high enough fever long enough, it should kill any and all viral infections in your body.
So if we could develop a way to protect the brain, heart and lungs and induce, say, a 108-110 fever over 12 hours, that should be a "cure" for almost every viral ailment.

If someone with more medical knowledge than I knows of a good objection to this, please comment.

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[xoexohexox.livejournal.com]

during our complex/long-term semester we had a presentation from an AIDS nurse and couple of people who had been living with that virus for 10+ years or so. One of them was extremely proactive about traveling around and trying experimental treatments, one of them was "extra-corporeal hyperthermia", which involved removing the blood, heating it up (I forget how much, like 120F or something like that), and then allowing it to cool before returning it to the body. It didn't work.

rings a bell, mebee?

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

i seem to recall Secret Clinics that were removing a pint or so of the patient's blood, superheating it and, eventually, returning it to its Owner. makes sense, but - then again - i'm not a medical doctor (yeah, "every system of knowledge is a system of ignorance," but i *do* trust MD's to set bones, if nothing else...).

*oops*

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

...missed your updated responses there. but, then again, the Medical People are on another of their "Vitamin C won't help you" crusades (aka, "the pitiful RDA *might* help you just a bit, but No More!"). i'm not sure i trust their testing procedures / they're always conducted in isolation from other factors and, dammit, none of us live our lives that way / we couldn't if we tried.