The over-the-counter antacid Pepcid is trending online and it's not because we all have collective heartburn over the coronavirus epidemic.
The over-the-counter antacid Pepcid is trending online and it's not because we all have collective heartburn over the coronavirus epidemic.
“Unfortunately, there’s sometimes all this buzz up front because of some test tube findings or something along those lines, but it doesn’t end up bearing out in patients,” said Jim Lewis, clinical supervisor for infectious disease in the department of pharmacy services at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon."We can’t reiterate strong enough to absolutely not take this drug without talking to your health care provider first," he said.
Doctors noticed many of the people surviving COVID-19 tended to be poorer, he told a reporter with the journalin an article published in its news section Sunday. They noticed that many of the survivors had chronic heartburn and took famotidine rather than omeprazole, sold in the United States as Prilosec, which is much more expensive.
Their working theory is that famotidine might bind to a protein that helps the SARS-CoV-2 virus reproduce. Because so many patients at Northwell Health were also being treated with hydroxychloroquine, an anti-inflammatory drug that also has, they were only able to test a combination of the two drugs. The lack of data makes it impossible to know if famotidine has any actual effect on COVID-19 patients. As scientists like to say,"Correlation is not causation." That means that just because two things tend to happen together, one does not cause the other.
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