Many of us follow a healthy lifestyle, working out and eating our spinach, trying our best no to catch a common cold or flu. We would do anything that we could not to get sick, and with the spread of the coronavirus, it's very scary to read the news these days.It definitely makes sense that in a time like this, people would try to see what they could do at home in order to stop the spread or cure themselves. And yet that's a truly terrible idea. Social distancing and washing hands and being careful are the only ways to be vigilant about Covid-19.Read on to find out about some totally absurd home remedies for the coronavirus that are brought to you by these countries.

The UK And Nigeria: Eat Some Garlic

Do we think that we can eat some garlic and be immune to Covid-19? Hopefully not because there isn't evidence or proof that this is going to do anything. So if we want to make some pasta sauce tonight, we can put garlic in it because it's a delicious ingredient, not because it'll do anything about this virus.

According to The Huffington Post, a lot of people have parents who are telling them that various home remedies are going to work, but it's not the case. The article included a tweet from someone living in Newcastle, U.K. who said their father thinks "a cure for the coronavirus is garlic." The BBC explains on their website, "Lots of posts that recommend eating garlic to prevent infection" are on social media. The BBC continued, "The WHO (World Health Organization) says that while it is 'a healthy food that may have some antimicrobial properties.'  there's no evidence that eating garlic can protect people from the new coronavirus."

According to Africacheck.org, this is a myth that is in Nigeria as well. Some people using WhatsApp have been talking about this: the publication quotes a conversation that said, “Here is what you should do to protect yourself from the disease. The disease will not affect you. Your body will fight the disease. You should use garlic in your drinking water and in your food, add it while cooking, chew it all the time and use it all the time."

North America: Making Your Own Hand Sanitizer

It makes sense why people would want to create their own hand sanitizer at home. After all, we're being told to wash our hands frequently and to use sanitizer when we don't have access to soap and water. And it's getting tougher and tougher to find hand sanitizer in stores as people have been buying it in mass quantities and sometimes it seems to be out of stock online as well.

But this isn't something that we should be doing as it's not going to be as effective and safe as buying a product in a store. According to Science Alert, an expert named Jeffrey Gardner, who is a Biologist, said, "Alcohol is effective at killing different types of microbes, including both viruses and bacteria, because it unfolds and inactivates their proteins." If your hand sanitizer doesn't include alcohol, it won't work. He also said that it's a bad idea to try this at home: "You may see do-it-yourself formulas online, including some that use vodka. However, vodka is typically 80 proof, which means it's only 40 percent alcohol. That's not high enough to effectively kill microbes."

India: Go Vegetarian

According to BBC News, some in India have said that being vegetarian is going to be the best way to fight Covid-19. A Health Minister who lives in northern India named Anil Vij took to Twitter to say, "Be vegetarian." He continued that eating meat is going to cause it.

India: Cow Feces And Urine

We definitely don't think that feces and urine from a cow are going to stop the spread of Covid-19 or cure it. And yet this is something that people in India have been saying. Yup, this is pretty gross to think about, and it's not true at all.

According to the BBC, a group in Delhi gathered some people together to show that drinking cow urine can prevent coronavirus. However, this is completely wrong: the publications quote an expert, Dr. Shailendra Saxena, who works for the Indian Virological Society, who said,  "There is no medical evidence to show that cow urine has anti-viral characteristics. Moreover, using cow-dung could prove counter-productive as bovine fecal matter could contain a coronavirus which might replicate in humans."

While we understand the desire to find a cure for the coronavirus, following these home remedies isn't the way to go. These ideas are totally crazy.