Evaluation of the Nutrition and Health Behavior of People Recovered from COVID19 and Treated at Home among the Arab Population

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Home Economics Dept, Faculty of Specific Education, Ain Shams Univ, Cairo Egypt

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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 &black tea, chamomile, thyme, clove, costa, turmeric, and fenugreek).

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