Digestive Remedies

COVID-19 has had a mixed impact on digestive remedies, with it influencing demand in different ways. On the one hand home seclusion resulted in consumers eating out less during 2020 with this reducing their chance of picking up stomach complaints, ...

In line with many other areas of OTC consumer health, Swiss consumers are increasingly shunning digestive remedies in favour of more natural solutions. As such, demand for digestive remedies was declining even prior to COVID-19. Swiss consumers are ...

Overall, COVID-19 has had a negative impact on sales of digestive remedies in Austria in 2020. Like many OTC products, there was some short-term stockpiling seen in Q1 with consumers concerned about retailers’ shelves becoming bare. However, as these...

In 2020, digestive remedies did not strongly benefit from the pandemic, due to restrictive movement outside of the home during the initial lockdown, reducing the pace of life including work from home policies, and limited foodservice occasions. ...

Poor dietary habits are quite widespread in Argentina, with around a third of the country’s population now considered obese and a further third being overweight, according to research conducted by the InterAmerican Heart Foundation (FIC). The weak ...

Digestive remedies is expected to see a slowdown in its current value growth rate in 2020 as a result of COVID-19. The lockdown implemented by the government to try and limit the spread of the virus is likely to be the main reason for the slowdown. ...

In 2020 overall, digestive remedies is expected to see slightly slower current value growth than in 2019 as it is pulled by opposing forces. On one hand, multitasking and moonlighting became more prevalent amongst Uruguayans fuelled by the ...

COVID-19 and the implementation of the MCO had a slight impact on the digestive remedies category in Malaysia in 2020. As consumers stayed at home more, they engaged in more cooking, but less exercise. This resulted in an increased need for ...

In 2020 overall, digestive remedies is expected to see no retail value growth from 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in March and September 2020, resulted in Israelis being forced to stay at home causing most people to prepare meals...

Digestive remedies is expected to register slightly higher value growth in 2020 than in 2019, though some of this growth will be driven by price rises and in general consumer purchasing behaviour is expected to remain unchanged in light of COVID-19. ...

2020 sees consumers opting more and more for packaged consumer healthcare products, including digestive remedies, instead of relying on traditional home remedies. This was in part triggered by the fear the pandemic induced, leading consumers to pay ...

Digestive remedies is expected to fare better than many other consumer health categories in 2020. Although the closure of foodservice outlets and places of work for long periods meant consumers in some countries had more time to consume healthier ...

Value sales of all types of digestive remedies are set to post growth in 2020, following a trend observed throughout the review period. In particular, it is expected that paediatric digestive remedies, diarrhoeal remedies and laxatives will record ...

COVID-19 lockdown measures have caused an increase in the current retail value sales of laxative products in 2020. One reason for this could be the unhealthier diets and lack of exercise due to the stay at home restrictions, with many consumers ...

Digestive remedies and, particularly, diarrhoeal remedies are seen to benefit from COVID-19 in Tunisia, as gastrointestinal issues and diarrhoea can be symptoms of the virus. Additionally, even before COVID-19, digestive remedies was seeing ongoing ...

According to the latest research published on the effects of various pharmaceutical products on COVID-19, most compounds contained in products in digestive remedies are not harmful. Research suggests that compounds in most digestive remedies to not ...

In 2020 overall, digestive remedies is expected to see a similar current value growth rate to that in 2019. As a result of COVID-19, demand for certain digestive remedies remained discrete in 2020. For example, because most children were forced to ...

Digestive remedies will continue to perform at a decent pace in 2020, with hectic lifestyles and the popularity of fast food contributing to sales of these products. Consumers in Estonia tend to eat unhealthily, frequently snacking on-the-go, given ...

Digestive remedies are the largest product area among consumer health products in Egypt and value sales are driven by unhealthy diets, as well as unhygienic standards in many foodservice outlets. COVID-19 benefitted digestive remedies and it is ...

Current value sales growth in digestive remedies is set to accelerate modestly during 2020, as some consumers responded to the onset of COVID-19 by stocking up on these products, as they feared that pandemic might disrupt supply chains. Sales of ...