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What's the justification for this recommendation? I find this really curious since I had some stomach acid issues that started during the pandemic (like, perha
by treyd 3y ago
What's the justification for this recommendation? I find this really curious since I had some stomach acid issues that started during the pandemic (like, perhaps late 2020) that I assumed were stress related. I don't remember actually getting COVID in that time span (my uni was testing us every 3 days so I would have noticed if I had it around then). My primary care prescribed me famotidine for it in ~2022 which helped for a while. I still take it regularly but I did a 90 run of omeprazole last year.
- oldstrangers 3y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399923002465 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002239992...
- hansvm 3y agoSomebody linked a study showing an effect. For a bit of intuition: A lot of the negative effects of covid are from our immune response and general long-term swelling and inflammation. Pepcid is a pretty safe histamine blocker, suppressing some of that initial broad-spectrum inflammatory response. Recently I had a pretty bad poison oak problem, and in addition to the normal things (steroids, antibiotics, ...), the doctor strongly suggested allegra+pepcid for a similar reason. Related, my gut instinct would be that benadryl would have similar effects on long-covid patients (though that might be hard to test given the induced drowsiness from the drug).