1. ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION FOR RESPIRATORY ILLNESS AND ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS AS COMPLEMENT TREATMENT FOR COVID-19
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Tunung Robin, Falah Abbas Mohamad Salih, Atif Amin Baig, Hassanain Al-Talib, Constance Liew Sat Lin, Tuan Zainazor Tuan Chilek, Mustafa al Shagga, Abm Tofazzal Hossain, Mehru Nisha, Chandrika Murugaiah, May Zaw Soe, and Rhanye Mac Guad
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Outbreak ,Dysentery ,Acute gastroenteritis ,medicine.disease ,Clinical trial ,Diarrhea ,Atypical pneumonia ,Internal medicine ,Vomiting ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
An outbreak of atypical pneumonia by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has been reported in Wuhan, China since December, 2019. It is a severe respiratory illness with many other symptoms such as gastroenteritis. Clinical trials has proved that Zn is a promising supplement that can ease of cough, fever and vomiting, dysentery, respiratory illness, diarrhea duration and recovery, duration of hospitalization and morbidity. This article suggests a potential role, which should be considered in the clinical management, and safeness for Zn supplementation for respiratory illness and acute gastroenteritis as compliment treatment for covid-19.
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- 2020
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