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Respiratory symptoms are more contagious. Stock Photography.
Sick or healthy: how do you know? Increasingly strange symptoms are mentioned in relation to covid-19, which stains the toes and irritates the skin.
Sure, it’s difficult, but an overall assessment is important, according to experts.
Covid-19 continues to surprise with new symptoms. There have been many reports that the sick have lost their sense of smell and taste. Recently, toe spots, skin irritation, and blood clots have also been mentioned.
All of the new symptoms make it quite difficult to decide whether we are sick with covid-19 or healthy when we get up in the morning. Many people probably wonder how we should feel safe not to carry the infection.
– I understand the concern. Are you contagious But we know how the virus is infected, it is when you cough and sneeze. If you only have red tears, then your chance of getting infected is probably less, says Petter Brodin, a pediatrician at Karolinska University Hospital and an immunologist at the Karolinska Institute.
The list is updated
The public health authority website only lists symptoms that were known from the start, such as respiratory symptoms, fever, and upset stomach. But the list will be reviewed this week, says state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
According to him, some of the symptoms come quite late in the course of the disease, so they were not considered important to include in the list.
– We have always tried not to focus so much on the symptoms that make you stay home, but you stay home if you feel a general feeling of illness, if you feel symptoms in the general public, he says.
Petter Brodin explains that doctors analyze the general condition of the patients. We should do exactly that.
– You have to weigh together if you feel tired, if you lack energy and energy, if you lack appetite or have pain somewhere. Then we must continue thinking now.
But already-known symptoms, such as a sore throat, fever, and cough, can be very mild, and the advice is to stay home even at that time. It makes it difficult to be your own doctor.
More contagious respiratory symptoms.
Petter Brodin admits that it is difficult.
– The Public Health Authority has never said that all cases of infection can be avoided. But following the advice, the spread decreases. So we must have advice that people can follow. And who is more infected? Yes, they are those with respiratory symptoms.
In practice, including all the strange symptoms on the list could mean a complete closure of society, he explains, and Sweden has wanted to avoid that.
Although all these mild and diffuse symptoms still mean that one and the other may wonder if Sweden’s strategy is valid. Can we really keep the infection far enough away when the disease has so many faces?
Jan Albert, professor of infection prevention at the Karolinska Institute, thinks so.
– The public health authority has said that cough and cough are more contagious. So this is one way to limit the infection. But stopping it completely is not possible, however, to flatten the curve, says Jan Albert.
Seems to have worked
The fall of other infections this year, such as winter illness and the flu, indicates that it has worked, he explains.
Petter Brodin is on the same line. The Swedish strategy works, although it does not mean that all cases of disease are avoided, he says.
Although to the individual, this tactic against infection may seem completely terrifying. Especially for groups at risk, or for those at risk of losing relatives.
– Yes, I understand that it is scary. But what is the alternative? When these countries (which had stricter restrictions) reopened, what happens then? says Petter Brodin.
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