Common vitamin could bring relief from long COVID symptoms, study suggests

Vitamin D supplements whitethorn connection researchers a caller hint astir lingering COVID symptoms that persist aft infection, according to a caller study.

Researchers astatine Mass General Brigham examined whether precocious doses of vitamin D could power COVID-19 outcomes, including the hazard of processing agelong COVID, a information successful which symptoms specified arsenic fatigue, shortness of enactment and encephalon fog proceed weeks oregon months aft the archetypal infection.

The findings were published successful The Journal of Nutrition.

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The randomized objective proceedings included 1,747 adults who had precocious tested affirmative for COVID-19, on with 277 members of their households. Participants were assigned to person either vitamin D3 supplements oregon a placebo for 4 weeks.

A caller survey suggests vitamin D whitethorn assistance researchers amended recognize and perchance forestall agelong COVID. (iStock)

Dr. JoAnn Manson, elder writer of the survey and a doc astatine Mass General Brigham, told Fox News Digital that the results constituent to a imaginable payment related to semipermanent symptoms.

"A cardinal takeaway is that vitamin D supplementation looks promising for reducing the hazard of processing agelong COVID but does not look to impact the severity of the acute infection," Manson said.

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Researchers recovered that vitamin D supplementation did not importantly alteration short-term outcomes specified arsenic grounds severity, infirmary visits oregon exigency care.

The survey besides showed nary quality betwixt the vitamin D and placebo groups successful the likelihood that household contacts would declaration the virus.

Long COVID is simply a information wherever symptoms similar fatigue, shortness of breath, and encephalon fog past for weeks oregon months aft the archetypal infection. (iStock)

However, erstwhile researchers analyzed participants who intimately followed the supplement regimen, they observed a imaginable quality successful lingering symptoms.

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About 21% of participants who took vitamin D reported astatine slightest 1 ongoing grounds 8 weeks aft infection, compared with 25% of those who received a placebo.

"There’s been tremendous involvement successful whether vitamin D supplements tin beryllium of payment successful COVID, and this is 1 of the largest and astir rigorous randomized trials connected the subject," Manson said successful the property release.

"While we didn’t find that high-dose vitamin D reduced COVID severity oregon hospitalizations, we observed a promising awesome for agelong COVID that merits further research," she added.

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Manson said vitamin D whitethorn power longer-term complications due to the fact that the nutrient plays a relation successful regulating inflammation successful the body.

Researchers accidental vitamin D whitethorn impact inflammation successful the body, which could play a relation successful agelong COVID symptoms. (iStock)

Study limitations

The researchers noted respective limitations successful the trial. The survey had to beryllium conducted remotely during the pandemic, and participants began taking vitamin D respective days aft their COVID diagnosis.

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Ideally, Manson said, supplementation would statesman earlier corruption oregon instantly aft diagnosis.

She added that larger studies volition beryllium needed to corroborate whether vitamin D could trim the hazard oregon severity of agelong COVID symptoms.

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Researchers are readying further trials to analyse whether vitamin D supplementation whitethorn assistance dainty radical already experiencing agelong COVID.