{"id":9157,"date":"2025-09-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9157"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:03:12","slug":"antihistamine-nasal-spray-prevents-covid-19-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/antihistamine-nasal-spray-prevents-covid-19-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Antihistamine nasal spray prevents COVID-19, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results from a single-center randomized controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2838335\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trial<\/a> published yesterday in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em> show that azelastine, an antihistamine nasal spray used as a preventive measure, was associated with a 69% reduction of COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>Azelastine is a widely available over-the-counter treatment for seasonal allergies (hay fever).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This clinical trial is the first to demonstrate a protective effect in a real-world setting,&#8221; said Robert Bals, MD, PhD, a professor at Saarland University in Germany and senior author of the study, in a university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1096684\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from a single-center randomized controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2838335\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>trial<\/u><\/a> published yesterday in <em>JAMA Internal Medicine<\/em> show that azelastine, an antihistamine nasal spray used as a preventive measure, was associated with a 69% reduction of COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>Azelastine is a widely available over-the-counter treatment for seasonal allergies (hay fever).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This clinical trial is the first to demonstrate a protective effect in a real-world setting,&#8221; said Robert Bals, MD, PhD, a professor at Saarland University in Germany and senior author of the study, in a university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1096684\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/antihistamine-nasal-spray-prevents-covid-19-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antihistamine nasal spray prevents COVID-19, study finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1371,18,405,334,397,8,1370,14,15],"class_list":["post-9157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-azelastine","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-research","tag-saarland-university","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9159,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9157\/revisions\/9159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}