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#LongCovid Scientific Consultant PhD Nutrition & Metabolism Hon Research Fellow, Lund Uni Posts: nutrition ▪ health ▪ all-things-science ▪ activism ▪ fun facts ▪ #PostVac Donations: https://ko-fi.com/drsmash Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LongCovidSC

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · Nov 14

Want help navigating the #longCOVID #postvac and related #chronicillness space? Want evidence, rather than be sold another protocol?

If so, I aim to help bring some clarity to things!

Book an appointment: lc-sc.co.uk/book-an-appo...
✉️ [email protected] (🚫please no DMs)

Long Covid scientific consultancy poster reading:
Helping bring clarity to long covid, covid vaccine injury and similar illnesses. Have you or a loved one had a COVID infection or vaccination, & things haven't been right since?
Maybe symptoms like… (symptoms pointing to an outline of a body)
Thirst, dry mouth or dry eyes
Problems thinking clearly
Tinnitus
Palpitations
Chest pain
Difficulties exercising
Exhaustion
Insomnia
Rashes
Legs change colour or swell when you stand up
Muscle/joint pain
Fingers, arms, or legs tingling
Food intolerances
Nausea
Breathlessness
...among many other things

If so, Long Covid Scientific Consultancy aims to help!

Harriet A. Carroll, PhD
www.LC-SC.co.uk
Harriet@lc-sc.co.uk

Poster reading:
Do you:
Feel unsure about what is going on,& you’re struggling to find answers or make sense of things?
Want help interpreting test results, or deciding what tests to ask for?
Want help navigating evidence, not be sold another protocol?
Read so much that you are now overwhelmed & dont know where to start?
Feel abandoned or dismissed by your healthcare provider, or been told there is nothing that can be done to help?
In my own journey, I remember frantically trying to find answers & getting constantly dismissed by doctors. Looking back, I wish I had some guidance from someone. This guidance is what Long Covid Scientific Consultancy aims to provide. I hope to support you in making evidence-based decisions on your journey...

5 star reviews:
“None of [my medical team] have had the depth of knowledge & understanding that Harriet demonstrated”~Anita
“It’s wonderful to have access to someone who is so knowledgeable & whom I feel I can can really trust” ~Jill

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

It's not living in fear to wear seatbelts, to refuse to drink dirty water, to wash your hands, or to practice food safety measures. Similarly, breathing clean air means life is safer which can actually bring a lot of freedom!

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Remember COVID risks are not just about feeling rotten for a few days - there's plenty of long term and lasting "hidden" risks as well as long COVID, in both adults and kids.

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Ofc none of these are guarantees, but the more mitigation strategies you use consistently, the less likely you are to get infected. And if you do get infected, it can feel pretty hopeless so hopefully there's some ideas for you to look into that might help if you do get infected

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

🛏️ Finally: REST, REST, REST, AND REST SOME MORE. When you start to recover, REST. Avoid going back to work/usual activities until you actually feel fully recovered

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

3. Be prepared if you get infected or have been in a (potentially) risky situation:
🧪 Test with LFTs (see blog for info RE accuracy etc)
🥛 Mouthwash 5 x day with CPC mouthwash
👃🏻 Nasal sprays/sterile saline nasal rinses
💊 Some meds/supps may help, beyond prescribed antivirals

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

2. Be protected in case you do come into contact with it:
💉 Get vaccinated
👃🏻 Use nasal sprays

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Brief rundown as follows (more details in blog):
1. Try & avoid it:
😷 Wear a well fitted FFP3 mask
🍃 Open windows
🌬️ Use air filters
📏 Keep distance between people
💡 Far UVC lights
🧪 Ask people to stay home if they're ill with any symptoms
‍💨 Monitor the air for CO2 levels

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of people have COVID or other respiratory-like illnesses right now. This blog is a run down of things that can help reduce the risk of catching it, with some possible ideas on how to reduce severity if you do catch it:

Tis the season to catch COVID
dontbelievehype.co.uk/covid-%26-va...

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact: hiccups are still a bit of a mystery. Over 100 possible factors have been proposed to cause hiccups, with about 60 being reliably associated. The longest bout of hiccups lasted nearly 70 years!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Not-fun fact: theres a paradox in measles infection: patients get a strong measles-specific immune response that seems to last for life, whilst also causing widespread immune suppression ("immune amnesia")
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Easy (& interesting) read: bbc.com/future/artic...

Measles Immune Suppression: Lessons from the Macaque Model

Author Summary Measles is associated with a transient immune suppression, resulting in increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections. Indeed, the main causes of measles mortality are secondary ...

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact: just as adolescence is when our body prepares for adulthood, maltrescence is when our bodies prepare for motherhood. There's even less research in dads, but they seem to have similar changes, especially if they're more involved in childcare
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Matrescence: lifetime impact of motherhood on cognition and the brain

Profound environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological changes mark the transition to motherhood as a major biosocial life event. Despite the ubiquity …

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact: cephalopod (e.g. squids) brains are doughnut shape & the oesophagus runs through the middle. This means swallowing food that is too large risks brain damage (their anatomy mitigates this risk)
cell.com/current-biol...
ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/i...
Image: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A diagram of a cephalopod brain showing the oesophagus going through the middle of it. Two rather large optical lobes protrude from the brain

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact: German cockroaches have very recently and rapidly adapted to evade sweet bait traps: they now detect sweetness as bitterness and avoid it
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23704571/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 5h

I think the saddest thing about this is that its probably not uncommon but our period education is so poor very few young people especially know what normal periods should be. Im hoping things have started to change and drs start paying attention to these clues. Sorry to hear you went through that 😥

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 6h

This thread 👇🏻 💯

One question i always ask clients who could be menstruating is about changes in their period blood - its something i noticed correlated with my own pain/symptoms: darker, clottier, and thicker = hell

Chronically Surviving @chronically2784.bsky.social · 16h

...wait. Holy moly this is something I have seen change with my period. I was so busy focusing on the obvious, huge clots that I hadn't consciously thought about blood colour until now.

Reduction in clots + change in blood colour since taking fibrinolytic/proteolytic enzymes since Feb.

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

So. Many. Sighs.

Cannot. Sigh. Hard. Enough.

Many. Layers. Of. Sigh.

SIGHHHHH

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Parliament to nominate Scotland’s first Patient Safety Commissioner: Next week (Thursday 15 May) the Scottish Parliament will be invited to nominate Karen Titchener to His Majesty for appointment as Scotland’s inaugural Patient Safety Commissioner
www.parliament.scot/about/news/n...

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

So purrdy 😻 hope youve had a lovely start to the week 😽

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: male camels have a pretty weird mating ritual; they froth at the mouth and extrude a soft inflatable sack that lines the roof of their mouth (called a dulla) to assert their manly dominance
youtube.com/watch?v=WdnP...

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a camels head taken from a side on angle with what looks like swollen tongue hanging out of its mouth.

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: the diet of bearded vultures consists nearly exclusively of bone, though their babes eat more meat (unlike other vultures, their babes dont get fed by regurgitation)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Today's fun fact: there have been cases of twins born 3 or more months apart
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www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...

Remembering John C. Loehlin: ‘Our Field Has Lost a Lion’/Twin Research Reviews: Cognitive Skills and Social Mobility, Risk of Arachnoid Hemorrhage, Heritability of Dental Traits, and Twin-to-Twin Tran...

cambridge.org

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: rabbits eat their own poop
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

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Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: pangolin scales are sharp along the edges & so strong that oft even animals like lions cant penetrate their armour—instead they leave the pangolin alone with their mouth maybe a bit cut up!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
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Fun fact: pangolins are the only known mammals with scales covering nearly their whole body
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751616117302047
https://science.org/content/article/these-odd-scaled-mammals-are-most-poached-world-and-they-could-go-extinct

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

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Carl @carlf.bsky.social · 1d

Nice thread. Despite a long history of medical cover ups, mistakes and oversights, it is remarkable how confident and dismissive the medical community are when faced with patients reporting issues following administration of a new product.

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