{"id":6553,"date":"2024-05-07T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T01:13:14","slug":"griffith-university-researchers-to-trial-naltrexone-on-long-covid-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/07\/griffith-university-researchers-to-trial-naltrexone-on-long-covid-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffith University researchers to trial\u00a0naltrexone on long COVID patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2024-05-07\/qld-griffith-university-trial-naltrexone-long-covid\/103800050\">ABC.net<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayden Donald went from a fit and healthy teenager who rode his horses almost every day, to being so sick he could hardly sit up after his second bout of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A year later, the 19-year-old talented equestrian has only recently returned to university and to the competitive dressage arena after being diagnosed with long COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was flat out walking,&#8221; the University of Southern Queensland engineering student says at his family&#8217;s picturesque property at Haigslea, about 50 kilometres west of Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You go from going to uni every day, seeing your mates, having a bit of fun, and saying, &#8216;oh I want to go for dinner at the pub one night&#8217; to &#8216;oh, I can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m stuck at home&#8217;.'&#8221; His symptoms included exhaustion so severe he was barely able to trudge from one end of his house to the other, brain fog, headaches, abnormally low blood pressure and a high heart rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/His symptoms included exhaustion so severe he was barely able to trudge from one end of his house to the other, brain fog, headaches, abnormally low blood pressure and a high heart rate.\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"Z Egg YNjMr w MwJF iYVMW onc\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC.net Jayden Donald went from a fit and healthy teenager who rode his horses almost every day, to being so sick he could hardly sit up after his second bout of COVID-19. A year later, the 19-year-old talented equestrian has only recently returned to university and to the competitive dressage arena after being diagnosed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6554,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}