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Nutritional Intervention for the treatment of Covid-19

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1. INTRODUCTION Nutrition is the key element of health and care. It plays an important role in the maintenance of health and treatment of severe clinical diseases [1]. More importantly, it enhances the host immune response to fight against the viral infections e.g. COVID-19 [2]. Proper nutrition and hydration are the key factors for a strong immune system. People who consume good and well-balanced diet have less chance of getting infected by any pathogen. Mostly immunocompromised, elder and comorbid people are found to have COVID-19 [3]. While the disease is less likely to occur in children and young because of a strong immune system. So, we should eat a variety of fresh and healthy food to get the required amount of vitamins, proteins, dietary fibre and iron [4]. 2. NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS 2.1. VITAMIN A Vitamin A is an important nutritional component of the human body which is also known as an anti-infective vitamin. It is responsible for the strong immune responses against many vi...