Covid-19 Pandemic, Chronic Diseases, Traditional, Complementary and Functional Medicine Practices

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1, 33 - 37, 28.02.2025

Mehtap Kavurmacı , Esra Çetindağ

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14944349

Öz

New Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 is a virus that was identified on January 13, 2020, and showed symptoms such as fever, dyspnea and cough, which appeared in a group of patients in Wuhan, China, towards the end of 2019. The virus, which is still effective in 2023, has mutated many times and new variants have emerged. COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease that multiplies extremely quickly and takes over all systems of the body. The disease is more severe in individuals with comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, kidney failure, and immune deficiency.
There is no treatment yet with proven efficacy and safety for COVID-19, and this prompts patients to use Traditional, Complementary, and Functional Medicine Practices (CAM). This article discusses chronic diseases and CAM use in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anahtar Kelimeler

COVİD 19, CHRONİC DISEASE, CAM

COVID-19 Pandemisi, Kronik Hastalıklar ve Geleneksel, Tamamlayıcı ve Fonksiyonel Tıp Uygulamaları

Öz

Yeni Koronavirüs Hastalığı COVID-19, Çin’in Wuhan kentinde 2019 yılının sonlarına doğru ortaya çıkan ateş, dispne ve öksürük gibi semptomlar gösteren, 13 Ocak 2020’de tanımlanan bir virüstür. 2023 yılında hala etkisini sürdüren virüs birçok kez mutasyona uğramış ve yeni varyantlar ortaya çıkmıştır. COVID-19 son derece hızlı çoğalarak vücudun tüm sistemlerini ele geçiren oldukça bulaşıcı bir hastalıktır. Hastalık diyabet, hipertansiyon, astım, böbrek yetmezliği ve immün yetmezliği gibi komorbiditeye sahip bireylerde daha ağır seyretmektedir.
COVID-19 için henüz etkililiği ve güvenilirliği kesin olarak kanıtlanmış bir tedavi bulunmamaktadır ve bu durum hastaları Geleneksel, Tamamlayıcı ve Fonksiyonel Tıp Uygulamalarını (GETAT) kullanmaya sevk etmektedir. Bu yazıda COVID-19 pandemisinde kronik hastalıklar ve GETAT kullanımı ele alınmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

COVID-19, Kronik hastalıklar, GETAT

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