COVID-19 symptoms and nutrition

COVID-19 infection can cause many different symptoms. We have grouped symptoms together to help you find your symptoms.

Please note that changing your diet may improve COVID-19 symptoms, but cannot cure them.

Changing one part of your diet can affect your nutrition. This may improve your nutrition or make it worse. Ideally, you should seek personalised advice from a dietitian or registered nutritionist when making significant dietary changes.

General health symptoms

Discover nutritional information and resources to help you understand and improve COVID-19 symptoms, e.g. fatigue, pain, dizziness.

Respiratory symptoms

Discover how respiratory symptoms related to COVID-19 can affect your nutrition and tips to help manage these and improve your diet.

Gut symptoms and digestion

Find out more about why people with COVID-19 can have digestive and gut symptoms and how these can affect nutrition and diet.

Psychological and cognitive problems

It is recognised that COVID-19 infection can result in brain fog, anxiety or sleep problems. Managing these is important for your health, wellbeing and quality of life.

Social and occupational effects of COVID-19

COVID-19 can have significant effects on social contact or ability to work. These can affect your eating and nutritional health.

Pre-existing conditions

Improving the management of pre-existing conditions such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure can help to reduce your risk of more severe COVID-19 and improve your overall health and wellbeing.

Nutrition after critical illness

Critical illness means you have been extremely unwell and needed admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). Good nutrition is important to help your body recover but can be difficult when you are recovering. You may find some of the links to advice helpful.