“Detox bath” does not dilute COVID-19 vaccine

According to experts, the “detox bath” proposal is actually unfounded.

“There is no medical or scientific study to prove that these methods remove toxins from your body.” Dr. Farzana HokeA hospitalist at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital in Missouri told Healthline.

In fact, she added: “Some of these methods can be dangerous to your body, especially for people with sensitive skin. From a medical point of view, this method I try to get rid of toxins from your body. It is definitely not recommended to use. “

He explained that vaccines like COVID-19 enter the body and start working immediately. Jason Gallagher, PharmD, Clinical Professor of Infectious Diseases, Temple University, Philadelphia.

That is, even if those ingredients can (and cannot) “detoxify” the vaccine, timing makes it impossible.

“The mRNA vaccine is taken up by the cells at the injection site and is produced by the body in response. [the materials to fight the COVID-19 cells]Gallagher told Healthline. “It will happen right there, and it will happen soon.”

Dr. Robert G. Rahita, Director of the Institute for Autoimmunity and Rheumatoid Arthritis in St. Joseph Health, NJ, and author of the next book, “Immunity Strong“I agree.

“Once given, [the vaccine] It’s permanent, immediate, and irreversible, “he told Healthline.

Lahita proposed to portray the messenger RNA component of the vaccine as an M & M candy. The sugar coating, made of fat and protein, exists to protect the middle (RNA) of chocolate and travels through the body to create protection.

The cells of the immune system “swallow” them all, which helps the body fight COVID-19.

In addition, experts say the vaccine is effective in reducing the risk of getting infected with the coronavirus, or if the vaccinated person develops COVID-19, the vaccine makes the symptoms more manageable. It is effective for.

“We just get the vaccine,” Rahita said. “I don’t go to the hospital or die. That’s my goal.”

According to experts, false information flows like TikTok videos continue to be a challenge.

According to Gallagher, incorrect information is not a new issue. It’s just that the world has more ways to share them.

“The only difference between now and before is the Internet,” he said. “This makes it easier to spread eccentric ideas.”

According to it, it’s something everyone should care about Nathan Walter, PhD in Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois.

“These videos not only affect beliefs, but also behavior, so you need to be careful,” he told Healthline.

Walter who has led Research on topicsSaid that the root cause of those who accept false information is better understood now.

“We thought there was a problem with health literacy, and if we got people’s information, that wouldn’t be a problem,” he said.

Now he said. “We know it’s not a matter of education. It’s a matter of perception.”

As humans, he said, we are “sensitive” to false information. Because, “it has the essential advantage of not being bound by facts.”

It’s new and clicks occur, he said. And what we have learned about the coronavirus changing over time allows the general public to build the distrust of “fact-bound” professionals.

So, for example, if the guidelines are changed based on new facts, the general public who may be wondering can immediately think: They were wrong, “he said, turning their trust in someone who may not be bound by the facts.

“We are facing a crisis of trust and we do not admit it,” Walter said.

How can individuals and societies fight such false information? It is not easy.

“For now, you have to depend on the platform to do that.” Jeffrey Rain Brevins, A PhD professor of journalism at the University of Cincinnati told Healthline.

But that’s not enough. “It’s a little too late. When the genie gets out of the bottle, it doesn’t really go back.”

In addition, the general distrust of both the medical community and journalists is that we must be the two institutions demonstrated by the former presidential administration and the current beliefs from the far right, and the institutions rooted in cultural politics. I just say I don’t want to believe that I have to, “he said.

He said it helps with TikTok videos about borax that sometimes feels credible.

He said all that was needed for someone to refute what might be the case was a lab coat and a social media platform.

“For example, there are videos where people in lab coats say,” No, take these drugs, “even if the CDC says you shouldn’t take ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. Sadly, that’s at least most people, “Blevins said.

“The general public is not so critical of weighing different sources against each other and recognizing which is the more professional and authoritative voice,” he added.

This can cause a storm like the “Detox Bus” video.

“It’s like dropping Mentos on a diet coke and shaking it,” Walter said. “It will explode.”

For now, experts say doctors and friends involved should work on such things with subtle strategies.

“The best way to deal with it is to listen and try to understand where they are coming from,” Hoque said.

She suggested that both doctors and friends were open-minded and willing to listen.

“Then, after hearing their concerns, encourage them to do their own research through reliable sources such as the CDC, FDA, or other government-approved resources,” she said.

As a society as a whole, Blevins said it may be necessary to drill down and look at individuals rather than trying to change the entire platform.

“We need to look at individual influencers on these platforms,” ​​he says, disproving or removing them.

for example, Recent research Blevins describes how false information about hydroxychloroquine spread on Twitter: , It repeated these claims and helped them spread. “

He said such complex research and information removal might help.

Walter said it was time to consider the false information to be a pandemic in itself.

“Let’s think of a way to inoculate false information like a virus, instead of whac-a-mole,” he said. “Something like this [detox video] You need to stop. “