Some people experiencing debilitating long COVID symptoms have spent tens of thousands of euros traveling across Europe to access a 'bloodwashing' procedure that is experimental and unproven.
'Bloodwashing', or apheresis, involves extracting a person's blood, filtering the blood to remove lipids and inflammatory proteins, and reinfusing it back into the body.
The German Society of Nephrology considers apheresis an option of last resort for people with untreatable lipid disorders. There have been noApheresis carriesby Madlen Davies at thefound that one patient from the Netherlands spent nearly her entire life savings traveling to Cyprus for a 'bloodwashing' procedure that offered no improvement in her symptomsin November 2020 and experienced such extreme fatigue that it took her two hours to walk to the kitchen.
She experienced brain fog, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and chest pain. A series of medical tests revealed nothing unusual, which isThe Dutch woman left her job in November 2021 after trying to go back to work twice. She joined a Facebook group for people with long COVID and saw a lot of chatter about a clinic in Germany that was offering apheresis.She rented an apartment on the beach and spent two months undergoing six rounds of apheresis at €1,685 a piece.
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