{"id":8473,"date":"2016-04-15T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2016-04-15T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T09:57:12","slug":"generic-allergy-drug-may-fix-eye-nerve-damage-in-ms-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/generic-allergy-drug-may-fix-eye-nerve-damage-in-ms-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Allergy Drug May Fix Eye Nerve Damage in MS Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ddd1604_generics.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8474\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ddd1604_generics-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ddd1604_generics\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ddd1604_generics-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/ddd1604_generics.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) may benefit from an over-the-counter allergy drug, clemastine fumarate, to help repair eye nerve damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University of California, San Francisco\u2019s Multiple Sclerosis Center released mid-stage trial data that focused on 50 MS patients experiencing mild disability and prolonged inflammation of an ocular nerve that transmits information between the eye and brain,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bf3b41;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-04-12\/generic-drug-helps-multiple-sclerosis-damage-in-mid-stage-trial?cmpid=yhoo.headline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">according to\u00a0<em>Bloomberg.<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers administered clemastine and placebos to patients on a randomized basis for a three-month period. The placebo group then received clemastine during the last two months of the trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Results showed clemastine lowered the time it took for patients to transfer signals from the retina to the brain by 1.9 milliseconds per eye, signaling a statistically significant difference when compared with volunteers taking placebo, wrote\u00a0<em>Bloomberg.\u00a0<\/em>An increase in fatigue was noticed, but it wasn\u2019t enough to cause these patients to leave the trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lead study author Dr. Ari Green from UCSF\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bf3b41;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aan.com\/PressRoom\/Home\/PressRelease\/1454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">said in statement<\/span><\/a>, \u201cFindings are preliminary, but this study provides a framework for future MS repair studies and will hopefully herald discoveries that will enhance the brain\u2019s innate capacity for repair.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Next steps include testing clemastine out on larger patient populations before physicians can appropriately prescribe this medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The researchers will present their findings next week at the American Academy of Neurology\u2019s annual meeting in Vancouver.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) may benefit from an over-the-counter allergy drug, clemastine fumarate, to help repair eye nerve 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