Benadryl is not a decongestant, it is an anti histamine, and works for severe allergic reactions. they put it in "cold medicine" to dry up nasal secretions, the other ingredient they added to Sudafed does not work that well, they replaced the real Sudafed with another, because people were making meth with the "real" drug, epinephrine. Benadryl dries up secretions so well, it should not be taken all the time, it can dry out the brain fluid! There are better anti histamines on the market, but, for poison ivy rash, severe allergic reaction diphynhydramine (Benadryl) is the go to. I personally think Benadryl can be abused, especially for children, trailer trash people use it to sedate their children when they don't want to be bothered with being a parent.
Benadryl was found to work with coof in eliminating the inflammation in the sinus and lungs. Many studies on this. One more reason they want it gone I’m sure.
Histamine causes inflammation, and when the immune cells are fighting the infection, they react to all histamine , even when you are not allergic to anything in the environment or food. Histamine is produced to break down foods, but it also makes inflammation happen. My doc does not care for it, she prefers Claritin or Allegra, as an immediate response to "covid", because of the drying effect. Benadryl does act a lot faster, but as a preventative to over reactive immune response, which causes a cytokine storm, which is what kills people with a virus, she advises daily doses of allegra or claritin, and pepcid ac, which destroys the histamines in our gut. So Benadryl is old school, with some unwanted side effects. I do use the gel if I get rashy while out in the garden, from contact with certain plants, nettle, comfrey, (invasive as heck so I am always chopping away at it).
Benadryl is not a decongestant, it is an anti histamine, and works for severe allergic reactions. they put it in "cold medicine" to dry up nasal secretions, the other ingredient they added to Sudafed does not work that well, they replaced the real Sudafed with another, because people were making meth with the "real" drug, epinephrine. Benadryl dries up secretions so well, it should not be taken all the time, it can dry out the brain fluid! There are better anti histamines on the market, but, for poison ivy rash, severe allergic reaction diphynhydramine (Benadryl) is the go to. I personally think Benadryl can be abused, especially for children, trailer trash people use it to sedate their children when they don't want to be bothered with being a parent.
Benadryl was found to work with coof in eliminating the inflammation in the sinus and lungs. Many studies on this. One more reason they want it gone I’m sure.
Histamine causes inflammation, and when the immune cells are fighting the infection, they react to all histamine , even when you are not allergic to anything in the environment or food. Histamine is produced to break down foods, but it also makes inflammation happen. My doc does not care for it, she prefers Claritin or Allegra, as an immediate response to "covid", because of the drying effect. Benadryl does act a lot faster, but as a preventative to over reactive immune response, which causes a cytokine storm, which is what kills people with a virus, she advises daily doses of allegra or claritin, and pepcid ac, which destroys the histamines in our gut. So Benadryl is old school, with some unwanted side effects. I do use the gel if I get rashy while out in the garden, from contact with certain plants, nettle, comfrey, (invasive as heck so I am always chopping away at it).