• Haoxiang Sun, Manxue Mei, Jiayu Xu, Xiaofang Chen, Wei Zhu, and Jianping Song.
• Artemisinin Research Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Nov 18; 101 (46): e31473e31473.

BackgroundInfluenza is a common disease. If it is not treated in time, it may induce related chronic respiratory diseases and seriously endanger people's health. Porridge, as a food of the East, has been recorded by doctors of all ages to treat influenza with porridge. However, due to insufficient research, there is a certain controversy about porridge in the treatment of influenza. We therefore plan to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to collect data from all published studies on this issue in order to obtain reliable evidence.Method And AnalysisWe will search for relevant trials in various databases published by December 2022. To study the efficacy and safety of a RCT of porridge in the treatment of influenza. Standardized data tables will be used to complete data search and extraction in duplicate. All differences will be resolved by consensus. The main result was to observe the symptom score of influenza patients, and the secondary results included body temperature, nasal secretions, nasal resistance and viral culture titers in the nasal secretions. Data synthesis and statistical analysis will be performed for each outcome with Stata V.14.0.ResultsOur study will be a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of porridge in the treatment of influenza.ConclusionThe conclusion of this study has a certain reference value for the clinical use of porridge in the treatment of influenza.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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