Symptoms: crown or flu? Here’s how you can tell

Stand: 27.10.2020 | Reading time: 2 minutes

G.Even Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) understood this: he was infected with the new type of corona virus. The minister apparently is fine, as is the forty-year-old a short video She said. He only had “cold symptoms”, which hadn’t even gotten any stronger.

Autumn comes on cold, wet days, which for many people are associated with colds and flu-like infections. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), flu viruses that cause flu circulate between early October and mid-May. This year the corona pandemic is added.

But which infection is present in the individual case, whether it is flu or Covid-19, is not only easy to diagnose for those affected, but also for medical professionals. Symptoms are similar, as Spahn’s case shows. They are sometimes very nonspecific with Covid-19. Two weeks ago a patient with only “neurological symptoms” was admitted to the Berlin Charité emergency room and then had a positive corona test. But the RKI has published a list of what symptoms occur with Corona and how often.

These are the symptoms of the corona

The most common signs of Covid-19 are to cough (in 45 percent of registered cases) e temperature (38 percent). Furthermore, some patients also have it sniff (20 percent) and one Loss of smell and taste (15 percent).

On behalf of the pharmacies, the health portal “aponet.de” compared which symptoms are found with particular frequency in the case of Covid-19 and which in the case of flu.

These are the symptoms of the flu

These are typical of both diseases suddenly Cough and fever, as well as general weakness. Neck, headache and muscle aches how a runny nose it would be significantly more common a Influence-Reported patients, Loss of smell and taste would come to Covid– Who suffers most often.

According to pharmacists it is easier to distinguish between these two pathologies, which are “banal” Colds “. Their typical symptoms such as Sore throat, runny nose, fatigue and headache they usually occur creeping for several days. You feel bad, but not completely helpless like with a real flu. So, if the disease occurs very suddenly, the flu or a coronavirus infection is more likely to be considered.

Corona patients have more severe courses than flu patients. This is the result of a current RKI study. On average, Covid 19 patients stayed longer in hospital treatment and more often and longer in the intensive care unit. 22 percent of patients with Covid-19, but only 14 percent of patients with influenza had to be connected to ventilators.