Timeline for Do antihistamines slow down the healing process of a bite/wound?
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| Aug 24, 2020 at 22:37 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | I think it won't be easy to answer your specific question much at all, because recovering from normal mosquito bites themselves is not really an issue of much medical significance. Clearing up foreign material is an immune function, but that doesn't mean it's affected by antihistamines in the doses used. Thomas has provided some sources for plausible impacts on healing more generally, but these have little to do with mosquito bites. | |
| Aug 24, 2020 at 19:54 | answer | added | Thomas | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 24, 2020 at 19:42 | history | edited | Thomas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | hirschme | @BryanKrause that makes sense. So really the "healing" is not much of a direct action by an immunological response, but just simply a washing away of the foreign bodies that triggered the response. In that case antihistamines should not have any negative effect in the "healing" time (unless the washing away is affected by the immunological response). Btw I think that could qualify as an answer to the question instead of a comment | |
| Aug 24, 2020 at 18:34 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | Just takes a bit for the proteins in the saliva to clear out and the inflammation to go away. There's some minor injury too but I don't think that has much if any relationship to the time during which you experience the symptoms of a mosquito bite. It's just an immune response, which is why if you don't scratch it seems to not be nearly as bad. | |
| Aug 24, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | hirschme | @BryanKrause so would you argue a mosquito bite never heals? What would you call the process of its disappearance? | |
| Aug 24, 2020 at 17:44 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | There really isn't any appreciable wound to heal in the context of a mosquito bite. | |
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