A woman became ill from eating too much raw garlic after believing rumours that garlic may prevent from coronavirus.
By Abeen Shayiq
The proverb, excess of everything is bad can be seen being proven true in the context of COVID-19. People are becoming desperate to protect themselves against the rapidly spreading virus. The number of health advisories available online, although unproven and unscientific, are being adopted by a number of people.
Among these, a lot of social media posts recommend eating garlic to prevent the infection. This and many other myths have been debunked by WHO. Accordingly to WHO eating garlic cannot prevent coronavirus infection. Although consuming garlic is generally good for health and may have some antimicrobial properties.
The claim that it can protect people from the Covid-19 is wrong.
The South China Morning Post reports that a woman in China, from the eastern province of Zhejiang, ate almost 1.5 kg (16 bulbs) of garlic over two weeks after believing the rumour spread online that garlic may prevent one from the virus. Too much consumption inflamed her throat to the extent that she could no longer speak.
The doctors reported that she had no symptoms of the coronavirus, but her body had developed a lot of inner heat which is not good for health.
No food, however healthy it may be, has yet been recommended specifically for fighting off the coronavirus strain.
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