Dr Derrick Lonsdale MB BS, FAAP, FACN, CNS "saw your discussion with your father online concerning the unusual observation that you have made concerning the Covid 19 patients. I understand that you have frequently observed that the arterial oxygen, etc

[Joseph Arabasz MD]

Subject- Dr Derrick Lonsdale MB BS, FAAP, FACN, CNS "saw your discussion with your father online concerning the unusual observation that you have made concerning the Covid 19 patients. I understand that you have frequently observed that the arterial oxygen concentration of some of the patients was 85%, but "they looked comfortable."

To- Dr Hannah Ferenchick MD                                                          28575 Westlake Village Dr. A106

                                                                                                      Westlake Ohio, 44145

    Detroit MI

                                                                                                       April 24 2020

                                                                                                     derrick...@hotmail.com

                   Dear Dr Ferenchick

                   

                  I am a retired physician (Associate Emeritus, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio). I saw

your discussion with your father online concerning the unusual observation that you have made

concerning the Covid 19 patients. I understand that you have frequently observed that the arterial

oxygen concentration of some of the patients was 85%, but "they looked comfortable". You may or

may not know that patients with the vitamin B1 deficiency disease beriberi were known to have low

arterial oxygen concentrations and high venous concentrations, obviously implying that something was

wrong with cellular pickup of oxygen from the lung and its delivery to cells. Perhaps by measuring the

venous oxygen concentration, you may be able to support this possibility. It also might answer the

question mark hanging over the chest x-ray that you describe as "looking like pulmonary edema". The

finding of increased lactic acid dehydrogenase, elevated CRP and other inflammatory markers are quite

consistent with findings in thiamine deficiency.

I am sure that you must be familiar with the fact that many severely ill patients in the emergency room

are found to be thiamine deficient and thiamine was included in the intravenous treatment of sepsis

patients reported by Marik et al. You can check me out by typing in my name in Amazon books to read

the reviews on our book "Thiamine deficiency disease, dysautonomia and high calorie malnutrition".

The book records many case reports of successful treatment of mystery patients using megadose

thiamine for treatment.

I decided to try to communicate with you in writing. I have no doubt that you would appreciate that this is 

an urgent matter if I am correct and I hope that you will give me credence for an idea that seems unlikely.

                                   Yours very sincerely,

                                    Derrick Lonsdale MB BS, FAAP, FACN, CNS

Please note; thiamine blood levels are almost invariably normal