A team of researchers from Edinburgh University found fasting can reduce fever symptoms, and empty stomach can hasten the recovery. The team believe the food actually helps the microbes to spread all over the body that result in systemic infections.
To confirm the observation, the researchers compared the infectious ability of well-fed water fleas with poorly fed organisms. They found the former were more contagious than the latter.
The researchers reported that the life span of well-fed fleas were increased, and also the replication. The team advocated the observations, and they strongly believe nutrition is a vital factor in the spread of disease and infections. They suggested that the findings can be helpful to monitor the infections in a large group of populations.
According to study lead, Dr. Pedro Vale, Eminent at Edinburgh’s School of Biology, the knowledge about the mode of infectious diseases transmission can be helpful to fend the spread of the disease. The contact between infected and normal people is an important mode of infection spread, he said.
The present study suggested a new way of disease transmission. However, the study should be validated with a large group of humans and the potential role of nutrition in the spread of infections should be explored, he added.
The study results were published in the reputed academic journal, Biology Letters.
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