Police seek unique pressure cooker treatment to avoid breathing complications


Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 8: People are known to follow various procedures to keep breathing difficulties away by keeping their air passages clear of bacteria and viruses, and thus keeping the coronavirus infection at bay. The doctors advise their patients to strengthen their immunity power against diseases through exercises and good food. People have resorted to breathing exercises in a big way in the recent past.

The personnel of Sarjapur station here have brought into practice their ingenious idea to stop corona on its tracks. They stand around a pressure cooker and inhale the steam coming out of it to strengthen their breathing mechanism. In addition, they do breathing exercises, consume Kashaya concoction, and zinc tablets.

The police place medicinal herbs, neem leaves, Tulsi and eucalyptus leaves into the cooker, fill it with water and then heat it. The steam coming out of the cooker is routed through a tube which then is inhaled.

The pressure cooker comes with a steel pipe and two outlets through which two police officials can inhale the steam together, said Harish V, who looks after maintenance. The police who have completed their shifts are made to inhale the steam before they go home. Sometimes, zinc tablets are given to the policemen and their family members. Pressure cookers have turned out to be their apparatus for a satisfying breathing exercise for them.

Similar arrangement has also been made at Barke police station Mangaluru. The staff there use a steel pipe having four outlets and the cooker is placed in a wooden frame. Three outlets can be used for taking in the stream while the fourth is attached to the pressure cooker. This was created by inspector Jyotirlinga Honakatti which he made at Belagavi last year. It is learnt that several other police stations in Chitradurga, Haveri and Shivamogga have made such arrangements to facilitate the staff to maintain their health and escape from infection.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Fredrick DSouza, Shirthady

    Sun, May 09 2021

    Mumbai Santacruz police (80 staff) proved the effectiveness of regular steaming against covid.

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  • Flavian, Mangalore/Kuwait

    Sun, May 09 2021

    Use some simpler methods to inhale steam. simple utensil is enough. Pressure cooker steam is not advisable for instance some object is stuck in the outlet and due to pressure is it gives way it could be dangerous.

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Everything if done in a limited way is not bad, but taking in zinc tablets isn't good idea according to a doctor as they are synthetic they lower immunity along with the masks they are forced to wear as they are enforcing the same on others. Breathing exercises are good as it improves their saturation of oxygen & improves their lung power after restricted air flow due to the masks. Letting in more bacteria & viruses only will boost their immune system as it gets fine tuned to every mutating viruses. If some doctors call it as quackery or pseudo science, then I request them to look back & see how modern medicine developed from same quackery & has taken more lives than traditional herbs & treatments that didn't. If they think reductionist treatment method is far better than holistic then they haven't been taught One Size Shoe Doesn't Fit All which modern medicine assumes at present.

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  • Dev, Mangalore

    Sat, May 08 2021

    But a word of caution, if anybody has cough & their oxygen level is down then no steam therapy should be attempted as every cough will lower it. The same way never put lemon drops in nose, it should be avoided if one has the above symptoms.

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Bangalore

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Instead of all this, why can't they use a vaporiser available at Rs 400. If you want you can put those herbs in the vaporiser. When we come from out, we immediately use it. Using pressure cooker is risky.

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  • Ozy, Surathkal

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Inhaling steam is so simple at home. Take little water in a vessel and boil it bring your face closer to vessel and inhale,adjust flame as per the required temperature of steam. At the police station they are using pressure cooker because many persons are inhaling at a time. It's very good as soon as you come home to do steam inhaling . Also you get steam inhalers at market from Rs4oo to 800.

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  • Ajay Rebello, Kallianpur

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Is it a good idea to have cooking facilities inside police stations.

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  • Dr Anil Shetty, Mangalore.

    Sat, May 08 2021

    This is dangerous. Their masks are worn down, and with those breathing exercises they are spewing and dispensing aerosols all around. What they are practising is pseudo science and is downright dangerous.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Sat, May 08 2021

    When the virus is found to get deactivated at 65- 70°C in lab conditions which authority has given them the permission to do this??

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Something is better than Nothing ...

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  • Rita, Germany

    Sun, May 09 2021

    Jossey S Mumbai,such dangerous things to practice by Police who are normal ,healthy is quite different to a patient who has problems to breath.It is dangerous.Would say let it be and try normal boiled water in a bowl and simply bow your head over using a towel over the head.and take deep breath.second it is dangerous from cooker ,that hot steam may cause burns on the face .so be careful.Testing one and getting second problems is not required.Here they tried the recovered patient ,to try to breath simply by making patient to try loud singing .That h ad a good effect,slowly and later increasing to a longer time.Like Opera.

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  • H. Almeida., Bendur/Andheri.

    Sat, May 08 2021

    " DESPERATE TIME, CALLS FOR DESPERATE MEASURE'S " We are desperately running for Covid19 vaccination. God forbid, if we have cough, fever.. fear, paralayse us and we run to get tested... if positive, all hell breaks loose !!! the crazy rush for hospital beds, oxygen, ventilators and vital life saving drugs.. Families, neighbors are in a state of panic... The quacks then step in to give their home concoctions !!! Is this what life is all about ???

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Sat, May 08 2021

    Now why this type of facility cannot be set up in various points for the benefit of the common man who has early symptoms of this disease? But, it should be handled with great precaution to avoid any accident like the outlet pipe getting choked or bursting!

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