A Field Study on the Relationship between the Emerging Corona Virus (Covid-19) and Nutrition of some Recovered People (A Comparative Study).

The aim of this study was to know the role and importance of nutrition during and after recovery from COVID-19 via studying sample of Egyptians over 18 years old, this research was conducted using a structured scheme (questionnaire to get information related to health, social and nutritional status and its importance in facing the coronavirus, for all male and female participants. The participants (n=93) were mostly women (68%). Almost all the participants (66%) said that their income had been affected by the Corona virus and males were more affected than females with suffering rate of 75% and 69% respectively. Body mass index (BMI) mean for the women group was higher than the male group with the mean 32.25 and 29.05 respectively. Specifically, 47% of the participants testified to taking vitamins and supplements before and after infection. And, the kind of these vitamins and supplements were Vitamin C, zinc, iron, Vitamin D, Immune Supplements, Calcium, and others. 77% of the participants reported that their diet and consumption of food after recovering from the COVID-19 was changed. The results also showed a significant decrease in the number of cases who continued practicing physical activity.
Conclusions Nutrition plays an important role in the stage of infection as well as the post-recovery stage for these cases who suffered COVID-19. It was concluded that intake of nutrients by the cases such as zinc, vitamin C and D and other nutrients are needed to support immunity and to maintain weight and doing physical activity had a significant impact on the prevention or recovery or post-recovery stage.