COVID-19 and nutriceutical therapies, especially using zinc to supplement antimicrobials.
Inflammopharmacology
; 29(1): 101-105, 2021 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1100980
ABSTRACT
The nutritional status of a patient can be critical for the efficacy of other pharmaceuticals, especially organic antibiotics, to treat viral pandemics. There may be political and scientific difficulties in achieving a constructive synergy of nutritional and prescribed allopathic remedies. For adequate treatment, timelines may need to extend well beyond eliminating viral proliferation, e.g., with vaccines, to include the goals of (a) reducing post-viral fatigue, (b) promoting earliest recovery, and (c) future resistance in often poorly nourished patients, e.g., obese (!). Many trace minerals (TM) and vitamins may need to be replenished. This review focusses only upon zinc to illustrate some problems in rectifying these TM deficiencies affecting the balance between continued ill-health ('illth') or regaining optimal physical and mental wellbeing. Ultimately, this is a matter of behaviour, lifestyle, and informed choice(s). See Hetzel and McMichael 1959.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Zinc
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Nutritional Status
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Dietary Supplements
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19 Drug Treatment
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Anti-Infective Agents
Topics:
Traditional medicine
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Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Inflammopharmacology
Journal subject:
Pharmacology
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Drug Therapy
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S10787-020-00774-8
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