Zinc may have a potential role in taste malfunctions treatment for COVID-19 patients. Journal Review article

Abstract

The novel COVID-19 virus has ongoing signs and symptoms, one of the signs and symptoms that is discovered recently is loss of taste, some pieces of research suggested that COVID-19 patients may have zinc deficiency however the main undiscovered concern is whether the virus is a causative or those patients had deficiency pre COVID-19, approximately they found 57.4% COVID-19 patients have low zinc serum levels which may indicate an advantage to administer a therapeutic approach for zinc deficiency for those patients. Pervious research experienced with common cold symptoms and zinc administration and resulted in conflicting data. More recently, Cochran review indicates zinc may be useful for common cold patients only if administered within 24 hours onset of symptoms. It was known previously for upper respiratory tract infections to cause loss of taste; this concern might be