The price of the lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid is likely to rise next year for most patients as the United States continues to transition out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, sparking concerns among doctors that it will become less accessible.
2 other things you can do to reduce the viral load of COVID while you are sick with it, which decreases the severity/lowers your risk of long COVID:
Use a mouthwash containing .07% CPC (like https://amazon.com/dp/B06XC4DSSW for example) twice a day while you are sick [1]
Use Covixyl (active ingredient ELAH/ethyl lauroyl arginine hydrochloride, deemed generally safe by the FDA) nasal spray or Betadine cold defence nasal spray (active ingredient iota-carrageenan) 3x per day. [2] Important: Do not use a povidone-iodine nasal spray, that can be harmful and the FDA bans those.
[1] Efficacy of CPC mouthwash for decreasing the viral load of COVID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941951/
[2] Efficacy of using a nasal spray while you have COVID to decrease the severity and make you get better faster: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9969373
Although Paxlovid is the first/most important thing to do to decrease your likelihood of long COVID, using CPC mouthwash and nasal sprays while you have COVID is a good idea to do regardless, with or without Paxlovid.
2 other things you can do to reduce the viral load of COVID while you are sick with it, which decreases the severity/lowers your risk of long COVID:
Use a mouthwash containing .07% CPC (like https://amazon.com/dp/B06XC4DSSW for example) twice a day while you are sick [1]
Use Covixyl (active ingredient ELAH/ethyl lauroyl arginine hydrochloride, deemed generally safe by the FDA) nasal spray or Betadine cold defence nasal spray (active ingredient iota-carrageenan) 3x per day. [2] Important: Do not use a povidone-iodine nasal spray, that can be harmful and the FDA bans those.
[1] Efficacy of CPC mouthwash for decreasing the viral load of COVID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8941951/
[2] Efficacy of using a nasal spray while you have COVID to decrease the severity and make you get better faster: https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9969373
Although Paxlovid is the first/most important thing to do to decrease your likelihood of long COVID, using CPC mouthwash and nasal sprays while you have COVID is a good idea to do regardless, with or without Paxlovid.
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