Open AccessNutritional aspect for SARS-CoV-2 infection- current perspectives
Author(s) -
Manjiri Ranade
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
perspectives in medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2348-229X
pISSN - 2348-1447
DOI - 10.47799/0801.17
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , pandemic , covid-19 , treatment modality , modalities , curative treatment , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social science , sociology
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has seeped through the world like neverbefore. The infection count as well as mortality count isincreasing day by day. Till now 9 million patients are affectedworldwide and mortality count is 4 lakhs.No provendefinitive curative therapy has been found out till now. Currentset of management is in very early stage of development withguidelines changing very fast as newer and newer data isemerging. No drug is found to be successful in all stages ofdiseases and medical researchers are continuing their fight fornewer curative modalities of treatment. It is a well known factthat nutritional aspect play a very important role in preventiveas well as curative aspect of viral diseases, same data can beextrapolated to this newer infection. Modification of dietaryhabits as well as balanced diets is extremely helpful in betterprognosis of the patients.