Posted on 02/10/2022 11:47:07 AM PST by Red Badger
Promising news for people with long COVID may have arrived in a new case report, as two people report that their symptoms were almost completely relieved by taking common over-the-counter antihistamines. Authors of the new paper express that while the evidence thus far is anecdotal and based on a very small sample size, it’s a worthy avenue of investigation considering that – for most people – antihistamines are safe to take on a daily basis.
“Patients tell us they wish more than anything that they could work and do the most basic activities they used to before they got sick with long COVID,” said corresponding author and University of California, Irvine associate professor of nursing, Melissa Pinto, in a statement. “They are desperately searching for something to help them get back on their feet.”
That search led Pinto and colleagues to the cases of two women, details of which they describe in a paper published in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Both women were otherwise healthy and ended up taking the antihistamine diphenhydramine, sometimes branded as Benadryl or Nytol, as something of a happy accident.
In the first case, the woman had triggered an existing lactose intolerance by eating cheese so took the antihistamine to manage the subsequent symptoms. The second had run out of her usual allergy medication so switched.
In both instances, the women found daily doses of the antihistamine led to significantly improved quality of life. Their cognition, exercise tolerance, and pain severity – all of which had worsened after SARS-CoV-2 infection – were improved and rashes and lesions associated with long COVID (which has around 203 possible symptoms) went away.
Each woman reports they’ve regained 90 and 95 percent of their pre-illness function under the diphenhydramine antihistamine regime. Their promising outcome potentially demonstrates that this readily available medication could have a big impact on those who feel they have lost much of their quality of life to long COVID.
“Currently, there is no cure for [long COVID], only symptom management,” said Pinto. “A number of options are being tried, with antihistamines being one of them.”
While the women represent a small sample size, with similar characteristics including age, sex, and ethnicity, Pinto maintains that the promise of an afforable medication easing long COVID symptoms is worth further investigation.
“The possibility that an easy-to-access, over-the-counter medication could ease some of the [long COVID] symptoms should offer hope to the estimated 54 million people worldwide who have been in distress for months or even years,” she continued. "The next steps for this research into antihistamine treatment are to conduct broad-based trials in order to evaluate efficacy and to develop dosage schedules for clinical practice guidelines.”
LOL-—they come out with a vague report about long covid and “viola” there’s a drug for that. This is all about money and control....period! And idiots are buying it up
There is that rumor but no current tested proof.
Two years ago, my allergist said to stop taking Benadryl (as a sleep aid) because of the study showing a link to dementia (due to it being anticholinergic). OTOH, a month ago my ENT said that the basis for that association is “very loose” and that consistent lack of sleep is much more likely to contribute to dementia than Benadryl.
D3 will prevent all the symptoms you take the drugs for...... at least it does for me
So instead of using deadly Remdesivir at $4500 per dose and then putting someone on a ventilator and blowing out their lungs we could have just used Tylenol Cold & Flu to stop coof?
Good thing we had Gubbermint and Big Pharma looking out for us!
I purchased 2 600 unit bottles at Costco for about the same.
There is all kinds of correlational evidence for several classes of anticholinergics — dismiss it if you will with the “not causation” quip, but I will no longer take first-generation antihistamines or other drugs such as antidepressants with anticholinergic characteristics. Take a later antihistamine instead such as cetirizine — a physically larger molecule that doesn’t usually pass the blood-brain barrier — and see if it works for the long-covid mitigation.
It works for allergies and sleep issues; but I think it’s one of the antihistamines that raises blood pressure.
I always heard that storks brought babies and “swallows” brought no babies.
I read somewhere use both diphenhydramine and lactoferrin together in tandem to battle Covid.
bob sagets death is interesting. He had a positive Covid test. His autopsy is a brain bleed from trauma. Would have died if he didnt have covid? Who knows
https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/10/bob-saget-cause-of-death-blunt-head-trauma-medical-examiner/
-PJ
Happened to my next door neighbor lady, a few years back, in her late 50’s.
She fell in her livingroom and hit her head on the coffee
table.
She didn’t think much of it, got up and went about her usual business.
She passed out about an hour later with a busted blood vessel in the back of her neck.
Luckily her husband was just home from work and found her on the floor.
She had emergency surgery and recovered after a few weeks, but couldn’t walk for a long time................
thats interesting. do you know which part of the head she hit on the table? I recently hit my head and was very aware I needed to pay attention to any possible repurcussions...thinking of that actress who died skiing.
The backside of her head.....................
that actress who died skiing................ Liam Neeson’s wife. FELL AND HIT HER HEAD ON A ROCK.............
sounds like perhaps the back of the head is more vulnerable to a brain bleed. Of course any part of your head could do it if you hit it hard enough.
It was a game changer for me. If you get covid take it. Benadryl.
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