Dailymail.Com Health Reporter Written by Luke Andrews
16:47 04 January 2024, 18:14 04 January 2024 Updated
A double lung transplant patient is grateful for the $10 cold medicine that saved him from contracting the coronavirus.
Amanda Jean, 27, said in a video that commercially available Cold Ease lozenges “saved my life not only when I contracted COVID-19, but also when I came down with a cold this winter.” Told.
Jean, who is awaiting a second lung transplant, is at high risk of a normally normal infection turning into a deadly pneumonia because of the drugs that suppress her immune system and the damage to her lungs.
But after experiencing symptoms such as shortness of breath, stuffy nose and chest pain, she said she took cold-ease lozenges and her symptoms subsided within minutes.
A small business owner in New York state touted the treatment as a “magic cough medicine” and said he uses it regularly to relieve multiple ailments.
Jean told DailyMail.com: [in October 2023]I had severe shortness of breath, congestion, and chest pain.
“The illnesses I get because of my lung condition are always worse than the average person.
“But I took the lozenges every three hours because I was told to do so. And they really helped with my illness — a lot of the symptoms went away, [become less severe]. ”
Gene underwent a lung transplant when he was 18 months old after being diagnosed with a type of lung disease in which the body doesn't produce enough fluid to prevent lungs from adhesions.
Doctors said when she received the transplant, she had only a 50 percent chance of living past the age of six, but that lifespan estimate has now more than quadrupled.
But now her immune system is rejecting her current organ, so she needs a second transplant.
This left her requiring oxygen and unable to perform many daily activities, including walking for long periods of time.
Regarding the TikTok lozenges, Gene said, “I don't know what's in this shit…but it saved my life, not just when I had coronavirus, but now.”
“I don't know what they do, but you take one drink and 20 minutes later you feel like a whole new person.
“Is there any traffic?” Gone. Chest pain? Had disappeared. stuffy nose? Had disappeared. sore throat? Had disappeared. ”
She added, “They're like cough drops, but they're magic cough drops.”
'I would recommend these to everyone if you have any respiratory illness right now and are just not feeling well. Get it, I swear they saved my life. ”
She said her video, which has already been viewed nearly 700,000 times, was not sponsored by Cold-Eeze, but “I wish it had been.”
Cold-Eeze lozenges, which claim to reduce the duration of colds by 42%, use the active ingredient zinc glycine gluconate, which inhibits viruses.
They claim this will stop the virus from replicating in the body and slow down infection.
Doctors recommend taking one lozenge every 2 to 4 hours to dissolve completely in your mouth as soon as you show signs of a cold.
Adults should take no more than 6 tablets per day, and children should take no more than 4 tablets per day.
Jean said she contracted the coronavirus in October 2023 and suffered from symptoms such as shortness of breath, stuffy nose and chest pain.
In December, he also suffered from a cold that caused stuffy nose, stuffy nose, sore throat and chest pain.
These disappeared a day after she started taking Cold-Eeze, she said.
She first used the treatment last October, when her mother brought it home from the medical store along with a number of other over-the-counter medications.
Jean was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease, a genetic disorder, after doctors discovered she had a mutation in the ABCA3 gene, which is involved in producing fluid that prevents the lungs from sticking together.
An estimated 700,000 Americans have interstitial lung disease. Some people are born with it, while others develop it later in life.
Patients live an average of 2 years and 6 months after diagnosis.
People who are male, older, and have more comorbidities are less likely to live as long.
Her parents noticed she had breathing problems when she was 6 months old, and when she was 18 months old, she underwent a double lung transplant in St. Louis, Missouri.
She spent nearly a year in the hospital waiting for a lung donor, then was discharged home after recovering from surgery.
Initially, her lungs worked effectively and Jean was able to do everything other children could do, from drama to dance to gymnastics.
At one point, she was going to the gym five days a week.
However, shortly after the coronavirus outbreak hit in March 2020, her body began rejecting her organs, causing breathing difficulties and disrupting her daily life.
A lung transplant is considered rejected when the immune system recognizes the organ as foreign and begins attacking it.
About 30% of lung transplant patients experience organ rejection during the first year, but the risk decreases the longer the new organ has been transplanted.
Jean said this before. rochester first: “In the past three years, I went from being able to keep up with most things and being able to do everything, to now being unable to keep up with anyone.
“I'm on oxygen.” [as of the beginning of 2023]. ”
Jean is currently fundraising for her second double lung transplant. gofundme. So far, $15,703 of the $20,000 goal has been raised to cover the costs associated with the surgery.
She is currently in talks with the University of Pittsburgh about undergoing a second lung transplant.
