Lack of approved therapies and need to work means people are turning to options such as ‘blood washing’
People with long Covid are turning to unproven and expensive treatments because of a lack of approved therapies coupled with a need to return to paid work, experts have warned.
Among unproven approaches that have been touted as helping or even curing long Covid are supplements of various descriptions, intravenous vitamin infusions and the use ofthat are offered at some clinics abroad. Often there is a hefty price tag. “We’ve seen lots of people basically marketing things of which there’s really no evidence and you can argue against them being completely safe.”
But, he added, the standard of research should be no different for long Covid as for other diseases, saying everything can and should be evaluated. Trevor Robbins, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, said that while it is possible brain retraining may help those with long Covid, he is not convinced it would offer a cure, adding it may help some but not others. “If it did work, I’m not convinced it would work any better than standard CBT [cognitive behavioural therapy] plus mindfulness batteries,” he said.
Banerjee agreed. “There is still so much we do not know. It can’t be the case that the people offering these cures have figured out everything. Otherwise, they’d be heading for their Nobel prize tomorrow.,” he said.
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