Illustration of the Covid-19 corona virus. (Shutterstock)
Himedik.com – A study reveals a sequence of symptoms that may appear in infected patients corona virus. This study carried out by a team of University of South California (USC) researchers showed a sequence of early symptoms Covid-19 in patients.
According to them, some sequence of symptoms could include fever, then cough, muscle aches, nausea or vomiting, then diarrhea.
Launch from The Sun, by determining early symptoms of Covid-19, it will make it easier for doctors to diagnose and plan the right treatment. The research was led by doctoral candidate Joseph Larsen and colleagues at the USC Michelson Center.
This sequence of symptoms was predicted from the roughly 55,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in China from February 16 to February 24 by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The study authors also used a data set of nearly 1,100 cases from 11 December 2019 to 29 January 2020 by the China Medical Treatment Expert Group.
“This sequence is very important to know when we have overlapping flu-like disease cycles that coincide with Covid-19 infection,” said Dr Kuhn, professor of medicine, biomedical engineering, and aerospace and mechanical engineering at USC.
“Doctors can determine what steps should be taken to treat patients and they can prevent the patient’s condition from worsening,” he added.
Fever, cough, and gastrointestinal (GI) problems are often associated with various other respiratory diseases, including Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). But the timing and sequence of Covid-19 can make a difference from the symptoms of other diseases.
“In Covid-19 patients the upper GI tract symptoms, namely, nausea or vomiting appear to appear before diarrhea, is the opposite of the symptoms seen in MERS and SARS patients,” wrote the scientists.
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