Unexpected symptoms in some COVID-19 patients

In the hospital room, patients infected with the virus are experiencing unexpected symptoms such as headaches and conjunctivitis.

And the dangerous thing is that people can get conjunctivitis and headaches COVID-19 (New Coronavirus Infection) (# If there is no character limit, add parentheses when first appearing, Is unlikely to be tested.

“Fever, cough, and shortness of breath are the most common symptoms, but if 10% or 15% of patients have COVID, there are thousands of cases in Melbourne with headaches and conjunctivitis. Dr. Carmel Crock, Emergency Director of Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, said 7.30..

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7.30 The hospital’s emergency department treated two patients with ear and headache who had recently tested positive for COVID-19, and reported that they had “awkward surprises.”

“They were seen by our ear, nose, and throat doctors, ruled out the ear cause of pain, and they also went to an ophthalmologist who tried to rule out the cause of the headache.” Dr. Crocks said. ..

“One of the patients had a preoperative COVID test, which was positive. Then, about 48 hours later, another case was seen with the patient. He actually asked for a COVID test, and the COVID test was positive. was.”

ABC medical expert Dr. Norman Swan said the risk in this scenario was due to patients failing to meet the COVID-19 test criteria, “at least one of these patients was quarantined. Instead, I was in the emergency department for a while.”

Ocular infectious conjunctivitis has also emerged as a more surprising symptom experienced by people with COVID-19.

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The World Health Organization has added to the list of less common symptoms, along with headaches, pain, diarrhea, and skin rashes.

“In the international literature, COVID can be associated with conjunctivitis,” said Dr. Crocks.

“We are very particular about PPE, especially in patients with conjunctivitis, in case this will be the first presentation of COVID,” she said.

Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services has identified fever, chills, sweating, coughing, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell and taste as major COVID-19 symptoms that prompt testing.

NSW Health also points to possible muscle and joint pain, headaches and fatigue.

Dr. Swan said the possible signals for COVID-19 were “probably false” and thus depended primarily on respiratory symptoms.

Despite varying experience, recent studies have found that symptoms usually appear in the order of fever, cough, sore throat, myalgia, headache, as well as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Loss of odor and taste, red eyes and a rash may also develop.

A study by researchers at the University of Southern California was based on the symptoms of more than 55,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

“The point of the evidence is that it’s probably wrong to associate COVID too strongly with respiratory symptoms,” Dr. Swan said.

“She didn’t know”

This is because parents share concerns about the impact of COVID on their children and concerns about future impacts.

Dr. Shidan Tosif, a pediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, said medical experts have for some time found that children have milder COVID-19 symptoms than adults, but doctors are now Admits that there is no. 7.30.

“And what we see is that many children are asymptomatic,” said Tosif.

“We see that asymptomatic children have a low viral load, which is good for children who are less likely to transmit the virus.”

Melbourne’s mother Jessica Foggy told the program she and her husband were catching COVID-19 earlier this month with her 4-year-old daughter.

However, Ms. Foggy and her husband were bedridden with a nasty dose of the virus, but their daughter showed no signs of illness.

“We used to check our temporary workers on a daily basis,” said Foggy. “No temperature, no coughing or even smelling. She runs around her usual way.

“She was asymptomatic all the time—unless I told you, I wouldn’t even know she had a COVID.”

But in some cases, children with overt signs of the virus suffer from symptoms long after.

New Jersey mother Jennifer Carrigan said 7.30 In early March, she fell ill with COVID-19 and her two daughters, ages 7 and 3.

The girls appeared to recover in about a week, but one of her daughters had recurrent nosebleeds and stuffy noses about five months after she was first diagnosed.

Carrigan said he was deeply worried about the continuing psychological and physical effects on her children, especially when her older daughter was preparing to return to school.

“It definitely caused me a lot of anxiety,” she said. “I also think a little for her sister, they share a room. And you’re listening to her cough all night.

“Does the (girl) have the antibodies? I haven’t tested them yet. I have them, but apparently they only last so long. What if they were available again?”

Foggy also said he was concerned about the long-term effects of the virus on her daughter.

“My main hope is for her to have no lasting impact, as we learn more about COVID and people discover more about how it affects us in the long run.” She said.

“I understand that she isn’t currently symptomatic, but I’m not really sure how it works in the body.”