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Wait, melatonin can help with covid-19 treatment?

• adventured 6y ago
  I was surprised about the famotidine, I had not heard much about that being used: https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-detail?articleid=28305&publicId=395 https://hartfordhealthcare.org/about-us/news-press/news-deta...
  • notacoward 6y ago
    I'd heard about ranitidine, but that was taken off the market (for unrelated reasons). Famotidine is in the same family - in fact it's what I take now - so makes sense I guess. Also: the proton-pump inhibitors (xyz-azole) that constitute the other main family of chronic-heartburn medications have apparently been associated with a significant increase in COVID-19 mortality.
  • stevespang 6y ago
    The famotidine phenomena was first discovered in China in the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak, a US doctor was stationed in China at the time and he brought the news back to the US. Chinese doctors noticed that patients who were taking famotidine already for heartburn had significantly better outcomes over time. Ivermectin has shown promise, and interferon which was largely ignored by the American medical establishment early on was being used by Russian doctors from the very beginning. Now the American medical establishment is "suddenly" become aware of interferon's usefulness in COVID19.
• xiphias2 6y ago
  It's part of the standard practice that was submitted here earlier: https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.en.140202 https://www.evms.edu/covid-19/covid_care_for_clinicians/#d.e...