Papaya and Increased Platelet Count

• Carica papaya extract in dengue: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2019-10-11
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 580
  • BMC complementary and alternative medicine 19(1)
  • • Senaka Rajapakse
    • Nipun Lakshitha de Silva
    • Praveen Weeratunga
    • Chaturaka Rodrigo
    • Chathurani Sigera
    • Sumadhya Deepika Fernando

  • PubMed: 31601215
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12906-019-2678-2

  5 Insights on

  • Increased Platelet Count

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  improvement in mean platelet counts between the first and fifth day of treatment (mean difference 35.45, 95% confidence interval 23.74 to 47.15, 3 studies, 129 participants, low quality evidence)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes