"This miracle cure-all does it all. Clears up diarrhea, dry cough, runny nose, fever, loose bowels, loss of smell and taste, aches, pains, runny nose, and congestion otherwise known as Corona Virus. It even doubles as a paint thinner!"
Posted on 04/26/2020 8:30:30 PM PDT by CaptainK
A clinical trial is underway at major New York hospitals to test the efficacy of heartburn medication, in combination with the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, on coronavirus patients, The Post has learned.
More than 150 people so far are taking part in the study, which began earlier this month and is being conducted by the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, according to a spokesman for the hospital system.
Researchers are trying to find out whether famotidine — the active compound in the over-the-counter heartburn drug Pepcid — acts as an inhibitor of COVID-19, similar to the way certain drugs block the replication of HIV/AIDS.
Patients in the study are being given the heartburn drug intravenously along with hydroxychloroquine at Northwell’s North Shore University Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Lenox Hill Hospital, said David Battinelli, vice president and chief medical officer of Northwell.
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been taking the equivalent of it for over a decade now- no issues-
Why would they lie?
Yes, we should know in a year or 2
have you tried prilosec? works pretty well-
Read this for concealed side effects:
https://www.askapatient.com/viewrating.asp?drug=19462&name=PEPCID
Wow and could still blow it. Nature is amazing. :)
“ people” have known since January
Look at supplies and prices
And suppose the trial says fail.
A year from now...you may not care
You will have been cured and survived, or not
Sounds like they’re “trying” everything.
When they determine that white burgundy’s may work, I’d like to sign up for trials.
"This miracle cure-all does it all. Clears up diarrhea, dry cough, runny nose, fever, loose bowels, loss of smell and taste, aches, pains, runny nose, and congestion otherwise known as Corona Virus. It even doubles as a paint thinner!"
Dang! Glad I’m one of those that don’t have those side effects.
Yep, 8X price increase in my area. Glad I had 6 months on hand.
Damn, I’m heading to Costco this week to load up on Pepcid before it all disappears!
Northwell Health is the biggest health system on Long Island. Many of the top LI hospitals belong to it.
Probably made in China...
I have ungodly heartburn, and there are a couple of tricks that I learned from ER and GI docs:
1.) Calcium treats heartburn quickly. If you need immediate relief, you can buy some time to get meds by drinking vitamin D milk. Sometimes this is enough for me, sometimes it isn’t.
2.) Antihistamines, for some reason, stop acid production in the stomach. GI doc didn’t know why, but it does. It’ll make you groggy, but Benadryl works for me. Promethazine was initially marketed as an antihistamine, so I now know why it was given to me for nausea and vomiting, and it’s what I take when the burn is unbearable. When my heart burn goes on for too long, I start to vomit up the acid.
Famotidine, however, isn’t totally safe. In doses on the high end of, “normal”, it can worsen renal issues over time, especially of taken daily.
Thanks for the info. I have been trying to drink more milk. It seems to help for awhile, but not so much after lying down.
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