Corona: These symptoms are crucial in contrast to the flu

Hamm – Crown? Influence? Or just a cold? with who to cough, Burning throat, one stuffy nose or headache wakes up, is faced with a crucial issue in times of the coronavirus pandemic, which can have major consequences for work, school and private life. The answer is not easy, because there are so many Symptoms from COVID-19, Influence is cold they are equal. However, researchers now have two “very reliable indicators” for Crown discovered.

Corona, flu or cold: many symptoms are the same

Those who feel bad at the moment hardly have the chance to have one on their own Diagnose be worth. Why are the symptoms of COVID-19, hence the disease caused by the novel Coronavirus triggered, they do not differ from those of one, in particular at the beginning of a disease Influence. Only one promises the greatest possible safety Corona-Test to the doctor.

Also: get to know a typical course Virologen is Medicines to Patientwith the Coronavirus they are infected, not yet. Many show no symptoms or may even have a mild one cold to have. Others have highs temperature, develop one lung infection until Pulmonary insufficiency and need artificial ventilation.

Corona infection: these are the symptoms of Covid-19

Among the most common Symptoms one infection with the Coronavirus count according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) these complaints:

Like many of the Symptoms from Crown, Influence is cold are similar, scientists have been looking for since the beginning of pandemic for unmistakable signs for COVID-19. Researchers at University College London (UCL) have now found that two symptoms are very reliable indicators (“highly reliable indicators”) for a coronavirus infection SARS-CoV-2 we are.

The scientist drew on data from health centers in the British capital for their publication London. They found that “four out of five people” (to be exact: 77.6 percent) had a sudden Loss of smell or taste immediately Covid-19 antibodies found in the blood.

Corona Study: Anyone who suddenly loses their sense of taste or smell should be tested for Covid-19

Another discovery of the UCL researcher: Nearly 40 percent (four out of ten) of people who have the Symptoms He had complained of loss of taste or smell, he had not complained of fever or cough. The scientists published their findings in the journal PLOS Medicine. Merkur.de * and fr.de * also talk about it.

Professor Rachel Batterham, who led the study, concludes: People who notice them Smells every day such as garlic, onions, coffee or perfume can no longer perceive, they should isolate themselves and one PCR test veranlassen (“people who notice a loss of the ability to smell everyday household odors such as garlic, onion, coffee and perfume should self-isolate and undergo a PCR swab for coronavirus”).

Why some people get stuck with the Coronavirus come on, others don’t? A new study from Graz confirms that blood type plays a decisive role. The world is asking itself a central question: when will a corona vaccine be released that will end the pandemic? Now there seems to be a breakthrough. *merkur.de and fr.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network.

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