DESKABABLE – During this Covid-19 pandemic, many people become paranoid (excessive fear), especially when the body is not healthy.
For example, getting sick flu Ordinary, direct shadows to a frightening disease, namely Covid-19. Though, between flu normal and Covid-19 exists difference striking, only the symptoms are similar.
Hence, if you are exposed flu Usually, don’t panic too much. Because, if you are declared exposed to Covid-19, it must be proven by an antigen test or PCR.
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Indeed, as said by a heart and blood vessel specialist from the Indonesian Cardiovascular Specialist Association (PERKI), Vito A. Damay,
between Covid-19 and flu usually have the same symptoms cold, nasal congestion.
But in Covid-19, there are also fevers, coughs, uncomfortable throats, sometimes also nausea, diarrhea, reddish spots appear on the skin similar to allergies, the body feels weak, easily tired so that the sufferer wants to continue to rest.
In addition, about 87 percent of people with Covid-19 can’t smell the aroma, be it food, their bodies, or anything else or what they call it anosmia. This symptom is experienced by the patient even though his nose is not blocked.
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“Even the same cold, stuffy nose, runny nose, but Covid-19 usually has symptoms anosmia or not being able to smell scents or losing their sense of smell. 87 percent of people with Covid-19 have complaints anosmia,” said Vito, who practices at Siloam Hospitals Lippo Village through a video message uploaded on his social media page, quoted on Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Cause anosmia this, he continued, was not a stuffy nose or cold, but because olfactory sensory neurons cannot express the gene encoding the ACE2 receptor protein (which the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to enter human cells).
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