KABUL (Pajhwok): Following the outbreak of Coronavirus, the sale and consumption of Vitamin C tablets and fruits containing Vitamin C have increased and their prices surged unprecedentedly.
Vitamin C and the fruits that contain it has been used by people ever since to increase their immune system, as the use of vitamin C has become a habit, the prices surged as well.
Pajhwok Afghan News findings showed that sales of vitamin C tablets and vitamin C rich fruits are still very high.
Citizens: we are used to the consumption of vitamin C tablets and fruits.
Asia Mohabi, a former government employee, told Pajhwok: “After the virus spread for the first time in Afghanistan, my father was infected and we were very afraid because he was 75-year-old, according to the doctor’s advice, we used a lot of vitamin C tablets and lemon juice and all our family members consumed them.”
Asia believed the only things that saved her father from death at that time were vitamin C tablets and fruits because they boost the immunity of her father.
“Currently it has become a habit in our home to consume vitamin C such as lemons, kiwis, tomatoes, peppers and etc.,”
Meanwhile, Momena Ahmadyar, an employee of the Bakhtar News Agency, confirmed Asia’s remarks about vitamin C.
He added: “Since the outbreak of coronavirus, we juice from fresh ginger, lemon and honey and give it to all members of the family in order to strengthen the immune system.”
Salma Darab, a resident of Kabul said she and her family had used vitamin C tablets and fruits and even become habituated to it after the Covid-19 outbreak.
But she complained about the surge in the price of vitamin C tablets and the fruits and said: “The price of a bottle of vitamin C tablets has increased from 50 afghanis to 90afs.”
Faisal Adina, owner of Adina Pharmacy in the 500-family area of Kabul, confirmed the increase in the price of vitamin C tablets.
“Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, most Covid patients have consistently purchased vitamin C and the number of buyers increasing day by day,” he said.
Not only the price of vitamin C tablets but fruits containing the certain vitamin also increased.
Ali Mohammad, a fruit seller in Kabul told Pajhwok: “In the first year that Covid spread, sales of tangerine, orange, lemon, and Kiwi had increased. People were used to it now and sales of these fruits are higher, at the time their prices were very high, for example, we sold a kilogram of tangerine or lemon for 250-300 afghanis.”
Health experts
Vitamin C tablets and fruits increased the immunity system but cannot get rid of Covid completely.
Dr. Abdul Baees Ahadpur, an internal medicine specialist who was currently studying abroad, told Pajhwok that vitamin C and fruit increase the body’s immunity.
He added: “The use of vitamin C has not been shown to have a director effect on the treatment of Covid-19, but it reduces the duration of the disease, reduces the severity, and prevents inflammation in patients whose respiratory tract it infected with Covid.”
According to research conducted around the world, vitamin C does not directly treat the coronavirus, but it strengthens the body’s immune system.
Dr. Mohammad Hashim Wahaj, the owner of the Wahaj Private Hospital, said: “Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins our body needs, both for the prevention of some disease and for treatment.”
He said vitamin c was naturally present in most fruits of the citrus family (lemon, orange and tangerine) and another type of vitamin was in the form of tablets and was effective.
He added: “If we take vitamin C in the diet, it is more effective, but sometimes we take the vitamin using tablets.”
Two years ago, the disease surfaced for the first time in the Wuhan city of China before it spread almost across the entire world
As a result, hundreds of millions of people worldwide were infected with the disease and more than four million individuals have died of it.
According to the Ministry of Public Health, since the outbreak at least 197,000 people have been infected to the virus and 7,691 lost their lives to the disease in Afghanistan so far.
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