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).
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).