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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: This drug has been used with other conditions. Dr. Lambert said it was quite beneficial for those with long Covid. Have the witnesses been prescribed LDN?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: It is not a considered drug in relation to the HSE. Will doctors prescribe it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
...are being prescribed medications in public long Covid clinics. We are not talking here about controversial medications or LDN but about things like melatonin for sleep issues, anti-inflammatory drugs for muscle and joint pain and so on. We do not know why that is the case because these are medications that are prescribed every day in every GP practice in the country for these symptoms....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Bernard Durkan: ...is very hard to treat it. We did manage to find a treatment in the form of a vaccine for Covid but there seems to be no way of preventing long or chronic Covid. What is happening with regard to drugs? Are efforts being made to identify specific drugs for treating long Covid? If they are being used, what is the response? What is the situation regarding long Covid throughout the EU?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
...?n N? Bhriain: I will start and then defer to my colleagues on some of that. The Deputy is right. The vaccine has been very effective in reducing the prevalence of Covid. There are specific drugs used to treat specific symptoms. For example, if somebody has new onset asthma, that would be treated accordingly. I will defer to my colleagues in two seconds on that. We are involved...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
...allowed my husband to be able to keep working so that was the difference. From hearing from patients around the country for some people it is the difference between working and not working. The drug naltrexone has been around for a long time - for decades. We are talking about a low-dose version of it, which obviously means fewer side effects and it being safer. We understand that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Crowe: And would clinicians say whether a particular drug or approach was working? Would they share that information with one another?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Are some medical practitioners using that drug to treat patients with long Covid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Dr. Ciaran Bannan: It is an opiate antagonist, a drug designed to inhibit the effect of a certain type of painkillers and certain pain pathways.