Antihistamines may help resolve long COVID,
report suggests
Fox News,
by
Shiv Sudhakar
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
2/13/2022 12:53:40 AM
Two healthy middle-aged females returned to almost their normal daily activities after taking daily antihistamines for long COVID, according to a recently published case report.
The researchers noted long COVID is a chronic condition when patients who are infected with the virus have persistent symptoms that extend beyond the typical time frame for the infection to resolve, but the illness currently doesn’t have any evidence-based treatments to guide how to manage it.
"Most patients tell us that providers have not recommended anything that has helped," said co-author Melissa Pinto, associate professor at the University of California, Irvine Sue and Bill Gross School of Nursing.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mean Gene 2/13/2022 1:08:51 AM (No. 1070390)
"Most patients tell us that providers have not recommended anything that has helped."
Well, there's an understatement!
There's no (financial) incentive to helping.
But there is a financial incentive to keeping people hospitalized with covid, as well as in having them die of covid in their hospitals.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pensom2 2/13/2022 2:04:05 AM (No. 1070408)
Doesn't sound to me like these two middle-aged females are elite scientists. Don't let this story get out, or Dr. Fauci will call his friends in the MSM, like Nora O'Donnell of CBS, and they'll start making up stories of these women pretending that they can "practice medicine" without a license by recommending their antihistamine anecdotal evidence. Mustn't have that--oh no--gotta have a billion-dollar deal with Pfizer to have a new-fangled drug regimen that the government can pay for, so Fauci gets a cut or kickback, and a dozen appearances on CNN.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
dickiedeeb 2/13/2022 2:37:49 AM (No. 1070411)
Long covid...oh...you mean one of those unusual flu effects that has been documented in scientific and medical journals for at least 20 years? Along with loss of smell heart problems chronic fatigue and every other covid symptom? Ok i know this is difficult... Lets spell covid... H-O-A-X
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/13/2022 4:32:51 AM (No. 1070423)
This Covid thing is just like Russia Russia Russia! Will be proven as largest information warfare attack in history of the world.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/13/2022 4:45:54 AM (No. 1070427)
Yet another indictment of our entire medical and pharmaceutical establishment. Corrupt. Incompetent. Greedy. Evil? All the above,?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/13/2022 5:37:41 AM (No. 1070439)
Actually, I paid $9.99 for 1000 25 mg tablets on Amazon. Or $.01 each.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 2/13/2022 6:47:16 AM (No. 1070469)
I bet it is a 'special' antihistimine that costs thousands of dollars per treatment.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/13/2022 8:43:28 AM (No. 1070530)
Benadryl
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Muguy 2/13/2022 10:21:59 AM (No. 1070621)
One of the biggest "controversies" the media and government officials have CREATED and incessantly drilled down on is Physicians and Pharmacists who prescribed or allowed well known and cheaper drugs to be used "off label".
THEY WORK!!! But woe to anyone who would suggest that ANYTHING other than Covid-1984 shots be used.
Over-the-counter non-prescription solutions have shown some promise at times, but the MEDIA will not report it. The Socialist government and most of the media are in an incestous unholy alliance, and it is all about POWER and CONTROL.
The word "Science" is derived from the Latin root word "scientia" which means "to know", and the "science" is suddenly changing in an election year because the con job is up! People have had enough!
Nightime sleep aids have used the ingredient in Benadryl for years because it has a side effect of causing drowsiness, and there was as recent story that famotidine which is an OTC antacid has also had some effect. This is something that has been either suppressed of non-reported.
This doesn't mean I'm giving medical advice-- what it means is that there has been a willful and purposeful effort to deceive the public, and it is not a "science" issue, but a "political science" issue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 2/13/2022 10:24:11 AM (No. 1070624)
Re #8, for a long time Benadryl was an external form of this drug, and I knew it for years as a treatment for bee stings, and poison ivy itching.
Only recently (at least to the old guy) have I seen it as an oral antihistamine formulation. It may be years now, but it was known for external use originally. It you look for that brand, be sure to get the oral version.
But, whatever brand you get, diphenhydramine has been around for many decades, I have used it for over 40 years under many different brand names. And it is now about THE cheapest and most readily available of the antihistamines.
Antihistamines are notoriously fickle drugs. I remember asking several friends who are pharmacists decades ago "What's a good antihistamine for my occasional allergies?" Each one, separately, snorted and laughed and said something like, "No way to know for a particular person. An antihistamine that is great for one person does no good at all for another. And they have highly varying side effects like drowsiness. You just have try what's out there OTC and see what works for you."
Along those lines....our doc at work (we used to have several company doctors, years ago) gave me a dimetapp pill for a sinus headache. Within 20 minutes of taking it, I realized that I had to head home NOW or I'd have to get my wife to come and get me, I was rapidly becoming extremely drowsy, and soon would be unable to drive safely. I made it home and slept for about 6 hours. That OTC drug is alike a Mickey Finn to me, but others find it to be a great one for allergies and no side effects. Antihistamine affects are highly variable, person to person.
So, this may not work for everyone for long COVID, who knows? Cheap and worth a try, since most docs are useless on anything related to the Wuhan virus.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/13/2022 10:49:48 AM (No. 1070665)
Been a fan of Allegra, Benadryl, and Mucinex for quite some time. The only downside is in the end you get an antihistamine effect, and you have to stop taking them which I did recently. All the nasal and sinus crud can travel to your lungs and stomach, and if you had an infection, now its traveling throughout your body. Will probably go back on antihistamines sometime in the future. Always fighting nasal and sinus congestion and runniness to some extent. Fight allergies too.
Notice drinking extra fluid seems to help.
Of course, none of this has to do anything with COVID which I think I have never caught. Does COVID have anything to do with what these people are fighting? There is a big gray area in all of this.
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And, as of yet, Fox has NOT reported on the wipeout of Wuhan virus in much of India, and other parts of the world with ivermectin and HCQ in conjunction with other inexpensive drugs.
I hope this works out for those who have 'long COVID' symptoms. Diphenhydramine is dirt cheap. I bought 300 25 mg pills for $8.50 at Walmart a few months ago. I use it for occasional allergies.