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Study: COVID can change how body processed Lithium

Posted by PeterMartin on July 8, 2022, at 18:28:14

Just a heads up: If you take Lithium, and catch/recover from COVID, you really should check your blood levels. There's newish study that found that after COVID your body may metabolize Lithium differently and there have been cases where people taking the same dose they always have end up w/ toxicity. So you may need to adjust your dose if you get Covid.

Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bdi.13183

Abstract:
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Abstract Lithium levels are often checked in the inpatient setting when a patient has clear indications of acute kidney injury. Lithium levels can become supratherapeutic in COVID-19 infection even after normalization of creatinine. Lithium levels should be checked routinely in patients with COVID-19 infection in order to avoid supratherapeutic levels.


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