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AN OVERVIEW THE USE OF VITAMIN C FOR COVID-19 PATIENT

Volume: 75  ,  Issue: 1 , April    Published Date: 26 April 2021
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 654  ,  Download: 440 , Pages: 29 - 37    
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP100751420211888

Authors

# Author Name
1 Ryka Marina Walanda
2 Tri Setyawati

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as an emerging disease has not yet been accompanied by standardized treatment. One of the potential medicines used to treat COVID-19 cases is vitamin C, which can be used in COVID-19 therapy because it can boost the immune system and function as an antioxidant. Consuming vitamin C can increase the work of white blood cells, reduce tissue and cell damage, and minimize virus proliferation. Vitamin C insufficiency is thought to create an individual more helpless to illness. Meanwhile, someone suffering from a disease will have an increased need for vitamin C due to a high inflammatory and metabolic process. For Indonesians, the nutritional adequacy ratio (RDA) of vitamin C is 90 mg/day for men over 15 years of age and 75 mg/day for women over 15 years of age. This sufficiency can be met from food, such as vegetables and fruit. However, if you cannot fulfill it from food alone, you can add supplements. Several clinical trials regarding the administration of vitamin C in patients with severe Covid-19 sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and complications of sepsis have shown results as empirical therapy.

Keywords

  • vitamin C