Adolescents with acute odor and / or loss of taste should be alert to an infection with the coronavirus. “ENT doctors have noticed that in some patients with a corona infection, the smell disappears, while the nose remains open.”
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That says internist-infectiologist Ton Dofferhoff of the Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital in Nijmegen. “This can sometimes be the first and only symptom of COVID-19.”
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According to him, these symptoms should be added to the list of corona-related complaints such as fever, misunderstood sore throat and / or cold symptoms such as coughing and sneezing. Especially in young people with corona contamination, the loss of smell and taste could be seen remarkably often. “While young people have relatively few symptoms.”
Underestimate
Although only a very small proportion of young people become seriously ill from the coronavirus, according to Dofferhoff, underestimation also lurks. “It is known that a 13-year-old boy in Great Britain, a 16-year-old girl in France and a 12-year-old girl died in Belgium by Covid.”
“They had no health problems before. In Rotterdam, the newspaper reports, a 16-year-old boy from Breda is in intensive care. You can be unlucky that you do get seriously ill anyway and in some cases the outcome is even fatal. ”
Hardly any disease symptoms
Relatively few, if any, symptoms appear in young people. ,, But if they get sick, the course is not always clear. In recent weeks we have seen that corona can express itself in all kinds of variations. “
“Anxiety often comes to the fore. But whatever the annoyance, the disease is so difficult to predict. Only five days after the first symptoms, many of the patients still have acute problems. You can see that in the younger age group who previously only had mild symptoms. ”
According to Dofferhoff, it is a solution if the virus can be widely tested quickly. “Then you also know whether a young person can still spread the disease and has already passed through the antibody test.”
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