Article
Carrageenan nasal spray may double the rate of recovery from coronavirus and influenza virus infections: re-analysis of randomized trial data
2020-11-16
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Carrageenan is a sulfated polysaccharide that has been extensively used in food products. Since the 1980s, carrageenan has been shown to prevent infections due to several viruses in cell cultures, including rhinoviruses which cause the common cold. In animal studies it prevented mortality caused by influenza A. Carrageenan is generally regarded as safe by the FDA. This individual patien...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2b306a63-14be-5499-9d4e-cab12955e27d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-108775/v1
