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NEWS: Can Claritin help cure Lyme disease?
10th February 2015
A new study funded by the Bay Area Lyme Foundation and conducted by Stanford School of Medicine researchers shows that loratadine, which is a common antihistamine frequently taken to treat allergy symptoms, may be able to help kill Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria associated with Lyme disease. - See more at: http://lymedisease.org/news/lyme_disease_views/claritin-lyme-balf.html#sthash.fvITkXb5.dpuf
I took one last night after reading this and felt great today--but I knew it had to be the antihistamine effect, as if it were working for Lyme, I'd probably feel like crap!But... since I have allergies anyway, maybe a little loratadine wouldn't hurt?
Oh, here's the whole paper link:
file:///Users/lx/Downloads/DDDT-77063-borreliacidal-activity-of-borrelia-metal-transporter-a--bmta_021115.pdf
I can't find that link, valentinelynx. Would like to read it in more detail if anyone has it.
You can try this link and click on "Download PDF"
http://www.dovepress.com/borreliaci...-a-bmta-binding-sm-peer-reviewed-article-DDDT
Desloratadine prevents Borellia from utilising manganese in vitro. I am thinking maybe I can start supplementing manganese again if I take Desloratadine to keep it from the Lyme Borellia - but will it prevent me from uptaking manganese too? I think that is what I am thinking - scrambled thinking is so bad with the Lyme disease! Hope I am making sense.
Thanks @valentinelynxNo need to worry about desloratadine affecting your body's cells manganese uptake. The borrelia manganese transporter is specific to the bacterium.
They are not the same. The article is referring to desloratadine which is Clarinex not Claritin. As a side note I read that loratadine(Claritin)has to be broken down by the liver into desloratadine (Clarinex). Or maybe its the other way around???? Both are supposedly non drowsy antihistamines