Authors : S S Jha, S S Jha
DOI : 10.18231/j.ijirm.2020.022
Volume : 1
Issue : 2
Year : 2020
Page No : 28-31
No speci?c therapeutic drug has been found. In the absence of any specific therapy and non-availability of vaccine, anaesthetic ether (diethyl ether) is recommended to be used as a prophylactic and therapeutic intervention in the management of COVID-19 disease. Strong evidence based property of ether as lipid solvent has provided the impetus for this approach. The lipid content of the outer envelope of the virus is the weak-link to get dissolved ether and thus leading to disintegration of the single-stranded RNA. The viruses present inside the blood stream are bound to be killed by the presence of ether in the blood circulation.
Keywords: Lipid bilayer, Lipid solvent, Oxygenation, Recreational, Halothane, Ether.