Probiotics and prebiotics: potential prevention and therapeutic target for nutritional management of COVID-19?

ABSTRACT: Scientists are working to identify prevention/treatment methods and clinical outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Nutritional status and diet have a major impact on the COVID-19 disease process, mainly because of the bidirectional interaction between gut microbiota and lung, that is, the gut-lung axis. Individuals with inadequate nutritional status have a pre-existing imbalance in the gut microbiota and immunity as seen in obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other chronic diseases. Communication between the gut microbiota and lungs or other organs and systems may trigger worse clinical outcomes in viral respiratory infections. Thus, this review addresses new insights into the use of probiotics and prebiotics as a preventive nutritional strategy in managing respiratory infection

SUBMITTER: Batista KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8593414 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature