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From blood washing to medication: Many of the curative treatments promise healing from the consequences of a Sars-CoV-2 infection that last longer than three months. Since they are not, not yet or only recently being examined in clinical studies for a possible effect in post-Covid, scientists are critical of these experimental methods – after all, the search for a scientifically based therapy has only just begun. “There are people with post-Covid who have been ill for a very long time, are desperate and are therefore willing to try anything that has the slightest chance of success,” reports Professor Andreas Stallmach from the University Hospital in Jena, in the health magazine “Apotheken Umschau”.
Initial studies indicate that two out of 100 infected people with a mild course of the disease suffer chronically from post-Covid syndrome. Available therapies can temporarily relieve symptoms in these patients, but the disease remains. Example of lipid apheresis: This form of blood washing removes blood fats bound to proteins. It is said that thousands of people worldwide with post-Covid have already been successfully cured with this treatment. However, an effect has not been proven, since the treatments took place as part of individual healing attempts, not in studies. Lipid apheresis in post-Covid is also not recommended because of the stress the procedure puts on the body.
In order to develop an effective post-Covid therapy, Stallmach wishes “well-planned, well-conducted studies”. It is also important for those who are ill to be able to take part in such high-quality studies instead of having to seek help individually and at their own expense. “These people may sell their car or cancel their life insurance just to get treatment,” says the professor. “I find that unethical. And I see medicine as having a duty to offer something.”
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