Psychological therapy may be the only treatment to successfully cure lingering ‘Long Covid’ symptoms, landmark new research in the BMJ has suggested. The Mail has more.
Canadian scientists found talking therapies and physical and mental rehabilitation “probably improve symptoms” among those struck down with the virus.
But there was “no compelling evidence” that certain drugs, dietary supplements or oxygen therapy could effectively treat the phenomenon now better known as Long Covid.
U.S. officials suggest one in 10 people who catch the virus will develop Long Covid, while around two million people in the U.K. are reported to live with the condition, including 112,000 children.
Symptoms have long been thought to be wide-ranging, from fatigue and breathlessness to muscle and joint pain.
In the study, researchers from McMaster University in Ontario assessed the findings of 24 separate trials involving 3,695 patients with the condition.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the evidence “suggests that a programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) probably reduces fatigue and improves cognitive function in patients with Long Covid”.
They also found “intermittent” aerobic exercise three to five times a week for four to six weeks, “probably improves physical function” and recovery.
However, they acknowledged that both CBT and physical and mental health rehabilitation “may be challenging”.
This is because patients may “express concerns about the safety and efficacy of these approaches” given it “implies that Long Covid is not ‘real’ but ‘psychological'”.
The scientists, however, acknowledged the study had some limitations including ‘possibly missing eligible trials’.
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if you don’t need a mechanical ventilator you should be at home in bed with a lemsip
One of the very few plus points of this total shit show is that it might have stopped the type of plonker who would have gone to A&E with a broken nail or a bit of wind. But then I suppose their places might have been taken up by the ludicrous hyperchondriacs who are clearly actually having propaganda-induced panic attacks rather than genuinely suffering from the deadly Covid. Many of my mates have had Covid (as have I), but only one still claims she ‘almost died’. Not surprisingly she’s a self-obsessed drama queen.
ha! yes – I think people should pay upfront for A&E or GP visit and get paid back if its not trivial
That was my conclusion when noting empty GP waiting areas during 3 appointments in the course of a week just over a month ago.
Absent the hypochondriacs with imaginary conditions who are most likely the same individuals still ‘shielding at home’ 12 months after the arrival of scary Covid.
I have a friend who talks on Facebook about her “recovery journey” after Covid. One step from “Covid survivor” type stuff.
She is a triathlete and had a high temp with increased heart rate during her infection. Had a check up and sent home.
Or given Ivermectin, dexamethasone, etc, to get them better faster and out of hospital. Or an asthma inhaler.
This PPE story is a diversion. Anecdotally, at my local hospital patients are being sent to Covid wards if they have respiratory symptoms, even if they test negative for the virus. They go in these wards without the virus, they come out with it. Sometimes in a box. Someone needs to get a proper investigative journalism hat on and actually uncover this outrage.
Last I remember reading (some months back) such was the scale of Government over-ordering of PPE that some Container docks were jammed solid with bulk containers full of PPE with nowhere to go.
But these findings were discovered by an international team of researchers, I’ll have you know!
Official guidelines.
Drawn up by “experts” presumably. Who’d have thought it?!
“The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can give strong protection to children as young as 12, the two companies have announced following a trial.
In a small study involving 2,260 US volunteers aged 12 to 15, there were no cases of Covid-19 among those who have been fully vaccinated. Eighteen of those who received a placebo were infected.”
but how is their fertility?
How many of those infected had any symptoms?
If they don’t get symptoms, why do they need a vaccine?
If they don’t have symptoms, they don’t spread the virus, as illustrated in the article above, therefore they don’t need the vaccine.
Sushhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quite a long time ago lockdownsceptics showed a chart that compared Covid deaths among working age people broken down by job type. It showed that health/care workers were no more likely to die from Covid than the working age population. This would appear to show that a supposed lack of PPE last spring was never a major problem despite all the media hype.