Allergy Med Might Also Fight MS-Linked Eye Damage, UCSF Study

An over-the-counter antihistamine used to fight allergies may have an important new role: reversing the vision loss sometimes caused by multiple sclerosis.

That's the finding from preliminary research that found that clemastine fumarate partially reversed optic neuropathy in people with MS.

Optic neuropathy is damage to the nerve that relays information from the eye to the brain.

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