Posted on 08/05/2025 7:41:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Been using it to help me sleep. Works great.
CC
here again is exhibit A of “overuse and abuse leads to never use even when fine IN MODERATION when *actually* needed.” 🙄
There are instances where the Gen 2 antihistamine mess and epinephrine just doesn’t cut it and Benadryl can save lives if properly administered. It’s also what ER’s include in anti-migraine cocktails.
Gen 2 meds* not mess
Using Benadryl in treatment of long Covid
“There is some experimental evidence of a role for mast cells (a type of immune cell involved in inflammation and allergy) in the development of ME/CFS, and so-called H1 antihistamines like Benadryl and Hydroxyzine are helpful in the treatment of mast cell disease. While the activation of mast cells may only involve a subset of patients of ME/CFS and it remains to be seen if Long COVID truly is mast cell mediated, this case report suggests that it would be useful to do a larger blinded controlled study of the use of antihistamines in the treatment of Long COVID.”
https://www.senderspediatrics.com/Newsletter/Back-Issues/2022/February-2022
I keep a bottle of Benadryl in my house and my cars. If I get in contact with a cat or some allergies kick in, it’s always a really good fix.
My allergies usually involve blurry watery eyes and without Benadryl I’m toast.
Allegra works if you take it every day. Benadryl works now.
It’s also a great sleeping pill if I can’t get to sleep on a campout.
Long-term use of Claritin also proved universally dehydrating for a family member of mine. Can be a risk for older people.
Our culture needs to instill in schools, in ads, everywhere that there are TRADEOFFS. Rarely is there a FREE LUNCH.
Here in early August Football players are hurting...getting in shape for the season. A tradeoff.
When we catch a contagious disease our body fights off the disease and our body fighting is what makes us feel sick. Like the football player... no pain, no gain.
When we take meds that suppress the disease without our body having to strengthen its own defenses the short term benefit is long term problem.
Our society needs to recognize there is no such thing as a free lunch. There is a cost. Sometimes the cost is worth the benefit, sometimes not.
I have to ask myself why the “health community” — for whom I have already lost a ton of respect — are on a jihad against Benadryl? Did the patent run out? Is it, like Ivermectin, too “safe and effective” but insufficiently profitable?
Been using diphenhydramine occasionally for decades. Only when needed. Works for me!
I did that for a while too. It worked, until it didn’t. I guess I built up a resistance to it.
Now I’m using valerian root and theanine at night before bed. It’s only been a few months on the new regimen, but I think I’m doing a lot better cognitively. Not as fuzzy headed in the morning as I used to be.
When you only use a medication as needed, then it works well. When you use it every day, your body may build up resistance to it, or it may have other than intended results.
I have seasonal allergies, but year-round. There’s always something in the environment that bothers me. So I keep all of the allergy OTC medicines on hand, but I rotate them, and only use any of them when I’m having severe reactions.
Claritin never did a damned thing for me, ever.
35 years ago our doctor told us to give the kids Benadryl to ease their symptons and help them sleep. And it worked.
One bit of news:
Benadryl can cause dementia to strike earlier and worse. But this same report favors Hydroxazine, which can have the same effect. I’d also note that Benadryl is cheap and OTC, whereas Hydroxazine is expensive and requires prescriptions.
Personally, I’m waiting for the generic brand, Oreoazine. (Many people don’t realize that Hydrox cookies came first, and Oreos are the knock-offs.)
Same here. Nor Allegra nor Zyrtec or Zyzal. The only thing that worked was Actifed and they changed the formulary cuz of meth heads.
None which actually WORK as well or as quickly.
But they do cost a lot more.
Guess I better stock up before they pull it from the market like they did with the Sudifed that actually worked as well.
I know if I give my dog a dose before I go to bed I get a good night’s sleep.
I’m with you. Lots of symptoms of illness or allergies are what my body is doing to get itself healthy again. Taking something to mask symptoms is just interfering with my recovery, IMO.
Some tradeoffs are worth it. Some are not.
We need to acquire the skill to recognize the tradeoffs and not assume a FREE LUNCH exists.
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