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Have you contracted corona or the flu?
This is how you will differentiate between the diseases
Winter has arrived and with it the diseases associated with it, which this year are going to make us all a bit of a mess.
Corona, which has been with us for the past year and a half, has now been joined by the flu - which is going to worry and confuse many.
So how do you know if you have the flu and corona?
We have partial answers
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Saturday, 16 October 2021, 23:50 Updated: 23:51
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In the days before the corona, if you suffered from a runny nose, loss of sense of smell, fever or even a headache, you would think it was the flu.
But now that we are entering the winter season, which is predicted to be particularly difficult, how can you be sure it is the flu and not the corona?
The bottom line is that you can not really.
Because although the typical symptoms of the flu are headache, sore throat and runny nose, these symptoms are now also some of the main signs of the corona virus.
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Symptoms
True, the flu is caused by a different strain of virus than Covid-19.
Still, most corona viruses, like the flu, cause high fever, muscle aches, headaches, sore throats, occasional runny nose and fatigue.
People with corona suffer from respiratory symptoms that can cause cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and fever.
The infection can also cause pneumonia, kidney failure and in the most severe cases death.
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A cold woman (Photo: Reuven Castro)
And what about the symptom most identified with the corona?
Researchers from Europe whose study was published last year in the journal Rhinology have found that when Covid-19 patients suffer from olfactory loss, it tends to be sudden and severe.
In most cases they do not have a stuffy nose or runny nose - most people with coronary heart disease can still breathe freely.
Another thing that sets them apart is a complete loss of taste caused by damage to the sense of smell - which plays a large part in the ability to distinguish flavors.
Corona patients who actually experienced loss of taste could not distinguish between bitter or sweet.
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Gluing time
Both flu and corona are transmitted from person to person mainly through a droplet spray (aerosols) emitted by coughing, sneezing and yes, also in speech.
Still, in most people, flu symptoms usually peak within a day or two of infection, corona effects on the other hand appear two to 14 days after exposure, and worsen.
In both diseases a person may start spreading the virus at least a day and more often before the onset of clinical symptoms, but the duration of infection in corona patients is longer than that of influenza.
Want to be more confident?
Get vaccinated (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The solution: vaccines
The best solution that may not prevent you one hundred percent from wondering - whether you have the flu or corona - is to simply get vaccinated against both diseases.
And if you are afraid of a double vaccine - remove worry from your heart.
The complete corena vaccine is given through three injections containing mRNA (the latest is a booster) and according to large and recent studies it has almost no side effects.
Influenza vaccination is performed by injecting a killed virus.
It is recommended for everyone, but especially for at-risk populations such as children (over the age of six months), pregnant women, immunocompromised people, the elderly and more.
The vaccine is completely safe and the side effects are mostly local.
By the way, a recent clinical trial in the UK by the University of Bristol found no sign of danger with the flu vaccine and another dose of corona vaccine at the same time, results that support research findings from the US health authorities.
Long-term damage
Almost everyone who has had the flu in their life knows that once the disease is over, it leaves no marks and can be returned to normal.
In the case of Corona however, this is a completely different case.
True, no one wants to wait until after the illness to know what they are suffering from, but it will give you a small idea of what awaits you next.
Researchers from the University of Oxford, the National Institutes of Health (NIHR) and the Oxford Center for Biomedical Health Research (BRC) recently conducted a study on the extent of the post-corona problem, or Cubid Long, after examining more than 270,000 people who have recovered from the Corona virus in the US. Studies found that in 37 percent of recovering patients, at least one persistent symptom of corona was diagnosed three to six months after infection.The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety or depression.
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