Evaluation of the nutrition and health behavior of people recovered from COVID 19 and treated at home among the Arab population

Abstract EN

A new corona viral-COVID19 is an epidemic that started in December 2019 in China and expanded to all world so still now.

Objective: Our study focuses on the patients infected with COVID 19 and treated in their homes.

“Nutritional &Health Behavior during” COVID19 (NHBQ -COVID19) the design place by using a web-survey.

Methods: 576 respondents have been inclusive in the study, aged ranged 16 -75 years.

Results: The bigger slice in age (30-39 y) was (46.8%) and the least slice was in over 60 y (2.7% ).

The chronic diseases were distributed for people recovery shows that 60.6 % of persons don't have any chronic diseases, 9.8% have obesity.

The results show a high percentage of people used WHO protocol (Antipyretic+ VitC+VitE+Zinc+Antibiotic ) (48.7%), as well as (15% ) of people who did not use any medical treatment.

For the effect BMI on-time recovery rate that the high percentage of recovered people have a normal weight (36.9% ).

There are significant differences in the rate of time recovery at (p ≤0.01) among individuals who used lemon, green tea, chamomile, thyme, clove, fresh fruit, and fresh vegetables.

Besides, significant differences at (p ≤0.05) in time recovery and used costus, turmeric, fenugreek, and black tea.

Conclusions: Therefore individuals take care of health, diet, and supported it with many fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs (recommended lemon, green and black tea, chamomile, thyme, clove, costa, turmeric, and fenugreek).