Efficacy of Carica Papaya Leaf extract in treating thrombocytopenia in Cases of Dengue

2016-06-29T17-56-52Z
Source: Journal Of Advance Researches In Biological Sciences (A Peer Reviewed Indexed Medical Journal)
*Abhishek Gupta, Vinod Tyagi, SKK Malik,SK Virmani and Saurabh Singhal.
AIM: The study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Carica papaya leaf extract (CPLE) to increase platelets in patients with dengue fever (DF) with thrombocytopenia.METHOD: The study was conducted in Chhatrapati Shivaji Subharti Hospital,Meerut. A total of 50 subjects were enrolled who had thrombocytopenia with dengue. The subjects were divided into two groups as cases and control group. The intervention group also received CPLE tablets three times daily for five days. Both the groups were managed as per WHO guidelines for management of dengue.Platelet monitoring was done daily. The results showed that CPLE had significantly increased the platelet count during the therapy period, in dengue fever patients, compared to the control group. Thus this study concluded that Caricapapaya leaf extract (CPLE) significantly increase the platelet count in patients with dengue with thrombocytopenia.


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