A new treatment cure was found against the spread of Coronavirus. A study claims that gargling betadine substance for 15 to 30 seconds may destroy 99.9% of the SARS-CoV-2 in a human body. The Japanese government also supported this claim, but in different terms. Here's the study.
Does gargling prevent COVID-19?
Not only experts from Singapore prove that betadine-gargling can prevent a person's exposure to COVID-19. Even the Japanese government supports the same claim.
Bloomberg reported that the Governor of Japan's Osaka promotes betadine as a medicine against SARS-CoV-2. Based on their study on 41 patients with COVID-19 mild symptoms, gargling with diluted povidone-iodine-- which is present to betadine-- for four times a day decreases the chances of acquiring COVID-19.
Compared to patients that only gargle with plain water, medicine helps up to 9.5%. The Japanese study and the Singaporean study were different when it comes to its effectivity.
"We've always been asking people to gargle, in addition to washing their hands, wearing a mask and social distancing," said Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui. "Now we're just saying there were better results when they gargled with this instead of gargling with nothing."
Japan's one counter-action against the spread of COVID-19 is through mouth gargling. More than the washing of hands and wearing face masks, this is one of their ways to stop its further spread.
However, for now, the study is still in its early phase, so nothing's sure yet.
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Written by Jamie Pancho
