Antihistamine Drugs Disrupt Covid
New Study from American Society for Microbiology
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Hopefully this news comes in time to keep you from getting Covid this summer.
Personally, I would take one of the antihistamines before boarding a plane or spending time at a large family reunion! Link to study at end.
July 2, 2024: Antihistamine Drugs Disrupt Covid
From the American Society for Microbiology
THE STUDY: The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2
“The study provides compelling evidence that HRH1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 by directly binding to the viral spike protein.”
IMPORTANCE:
Nearly all antihistamine drugs inhibited SARS-CoV-2 PsV infection.”
“We conducted the third round of screening, specifically focusing on five antihistamine drugs, namely, loratadine, astemizole, azelastine, desloratadine, and cyproheptadine. The results showed that all of these antihistamines at both 5 and 50 µM potentially prevented SARS-CoV-2 PsV infection.
“Similar results have also been found in previous reports, which indicated that antihistamine drugs, including clemastine, astemizole, azelastine, brompheniramine, and ebastine, inhibited SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication.”
“Although we have provided compelling evidence that HRH1 can act as a receptor for SARS-CoV-2, several limitations exist in our study. Most of our inhibition assays against SARS-CoV-2 mutants were conducted utilizing pseudotyped virus infection experiments.
Therefore, further studies should confirm the inhibitory effects of antihistamine drugs on various authentic SARS-CoV-2 variant-based cell infections and animal challenge assays.”
Authors: Fei Yu, Xiaoqing Liu, Hailan Ou, Xinyu Li, Ruxin Liu, Xi Lv, Shiqi Xiao, Xiancai Ma
Link for Full Report: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01088-24
Do these simple over-the-counters perform better than the vaccines? Wouldn’t that be something!