This is the command that coronavirus symptoms appear, docs say

SCIENTISTS have found the probable sequence in which Covid-19 symptoms first appear.

According to researchers from the University of Southern California, the symptoms of Covid-19 appear in the following order – fever, cough, muscle aches, and then nausea, and / or vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Knowing how the symptoms first appear can help doctors rule out other diseases according to the study led by doctoral student Joseph Larsen and his colleagues at the USC Michelson Center.

The sequence of symptoms was predicted from more than 55,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China that were collected from February 16 to February 24 by the World Health Organization.

The authors of the study also used a dataset of nearly 1,100 cases collected from December 11, 2019, through January 29, 2020, by the China Medical Treatment Expert Group.

Recognizing the order of symptoms can also help doctors plan how to treat patients, and perhaps intervene earlier in the disease.

“This sequence is especially important to know when we have overlapping cycles of diseases such as the flu that coincide with COVID-19 infections,” said Dr. Kuhn, a USC professor of medicine, biomedical engineering, and aerospace. – and mechanical technique.

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“Physicians can determine what steps to take to care for the patient, and they can prevent the patient’s condition from deteriorating.”

“Given that there are now better approaches to COVID-19 treatments, patients were able to identify hospitalization time earlier,” said Larsen, lead author of the study.

Fever and cough are often associated with a variety of respiratory distress, including Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

However, the timing and symptoms in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract separate COVID-19.

“The upper GI channel (i.e., nausea / vomiting) appears to be affected before the lower GI channel (ie, diarrhea) in COVID-19, which is the opposite of MERS and SARS,” the scientists wrote.

To compare the sequence of COVID-19 symptoms with flu, the researchers examined data from 2,470 cases in North America, Europe and the Southern Hemisphere, which were reported to health authorities from 1994 to 1998.

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“The order of the symptoms matters,” said Larsen, the lead author.

“Knowing that each disease progresses differently means that doctors can identify sooner if someone is likely to have COVID-19, or another disease, which can help them make better treatment decisions.”

However, these symptoms are the short-term suffering that patients suffer from.

Some patients who test positive for the virus may suffer for months from agonizing symptoms, scientists warn.

Some people – known as “long haulers” – have reportedly struggled with the suffering problems despite overcoming Covid-19.

The most common symptom is crippling fatigue, but others have experienced sore muscles and difficulty concentrating.

The World Health Organization said that for critical and critical patients, the recovery period could take a maximum of six weeks.

But scientists are beginning to recognize that for some people, their symptoms do not attach to those time scales.

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