Kumar Barun Dev, Verma Santosh Kumar, Chaurasia Akhilanand, Dubey Deepyanti
Dental Institute, RIMS, Ranchi, India.
Bioinformation. 2022 Sep 30;18(9):825-830. doi: 10.6026/97320630018825. eCollection 2022.
Steam inhalations are often used to control viral infections of the respiratory tract such as common cold. The use of steam inhalation in combating SAR-CoV-2 infection has been also tried. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the various data available on the effect of steam inhalation on COVID-19 infection in a systematic manner. The guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) were used. We registered the protocol in PROSPERO, the International prospective register of systematic reviews. A search method to identify relevant studies using PICO questions was prepared. A total of 52 articles were screened for their relevance to the topic. Three articles were found to have insufficient data and ten articles could not pass our inclusion criteria. Total 3 articles could make the final list of articles based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Steam inhalation helps in symptomatic relief of COVID symptoms. But there is not much data available to reach a conclusion of its role in the treatment and prevention of COVID.
蒸汽吸入法常用于控制呼吸道病毒感染，如普通感冒。人们也尝试过使用蒸汽吸入法来对抗新冠病毒感染。因此，有必要系统地评估现有的关于蒸汽吸入法对新冠病毒感染影响的各种数据。我们采用了系统评价和Meta分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）指南。我们在国际前瞻性系统评价注册库PROSPERO中注册了该方案。准备了一种使用PICO问题来识别相关研究的检索方法。共筛选了52篇文章以确定其与该主题的相关性。发现3篇文章数据不足，10篇文章未通过我们的纳入标准。根据纳入和排除标准，共有3篇文章可以进入最终的文章列表。蒸汽吸入有助于缓解新冠症状。但没有太多数据可得出其在新冠治疗和预防中作用的结论。
