Effects of multivitamins in the prevention & treatment of Corona-virus infection: A market Scam.

 

According to research, the fear of Coronavirus has profited the multivitamins business in the market. This market is a marketplace for multivitamin pills. It may be time for you to take vitamins dose, but now before taking the next dose, absolutely read this article.

These days you will find everywhere that peoples are saying that Corona is not here now. Many people also say that there is no requirement for masks or vaccines now. People's masks wearing and handwashing habits are also missing.

On 14 February 2021, Vijay Rupani (Gujarat Chief Minister) was speaking in a public meeting in Vadodara, Gujarat and suddenly he fell on the stage. He felt that his blood pressure might have become low and he was faint due to weakness. He was admitted to the hospital in Vadodara, where he was found corona positive. The corona test report came on 15 February 2021. By observing this condition, you should realize that the coronavirus is not yet left. At present in India, about 1,40,000 patients are suffering from coronavirus infection. 

We don’t have any foolproof defence to avoid this infection. To guard yourself against this infection, if you have depended on the multivitamins that are claiming to increase your immunity, then this research may make you disappointed.

Scientists at the Cleveland Clinic, United States (US) have declared in research that peoples taking multivitamins such as vitamin C & zinc did not improve the ailment of corona virus-infected patients. Scientists did this investigation between April 2020 and October 2020. 214 Corona virus-infected patients had involved in this research. They were allocated into 4 groups. For 6 months, the 1^st group receive only zinc (50mg). The 2^nd group was treated only with vitamin C (8000 mg). The 3^rd group was treated with both (50mg Zinc & 8000 mg Vit. C), whereas the fourth group did not receive any multi-vitamin treatment.

In this research, scientists desired to understand how rapidly the indications of coronavirus infection in the group treated with single or multiple multivitamins are relieved. Subsequently, the scientists also want to see how speedily the people, taking multivitamins were recovered and how fast was their recovery. But when the scientists saw that vitamin pills treatment to the corona infected patients did not make any modification. After this, they decided to end the research with the conclusion that these drugs (multivitamins) could not benefit in any way.

Zinc is supposed to improve the strength to fight infection. Children who want to increase immunity are recommended to eat it. Vitamin C is identified to increase immunity and also measured to be an anti-oxidant, i.e., a medicine that keeps you healthy and young. By assuming the role of immunity in coronavirus infection, it is suggested to eat these medicines (multivitamins). These both are the over the counter (OTC) medicines. So, they can also be acquired without any prescription. People bought these medicines in too much quantity that all the calculations of the drug market changed this year. According to AIOCD Pharmasofttech AWACS Pvt. Ltd., the business of multivitamins in 2020 in India was about 500 Cr and there is a 110% increase in Vitamin C sales and 60% in zinc sales between January 2020 to November 2020.

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Cleveland Clinic Study Reveals Zinc and Vitamin C Not Effective Treatments for COVID-19