Damascus-Sana
The incidence of digestive symptoms varies between 10 and 33 percent of patients with Coronavirus, and they appear in the form of vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain, sometimes to cases of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients who are provided with mechanical ventilation and who suffer from a lack of platelet count, according to the Dean of the College Human medicine at the University of Damascus gastroenterologist Dr. Raed Abu Harb.
Dr. Abu Harb stated in a statement to SANA's delegate that the pathogenesis of non-pulmonary symptoms in Corona patients results from the spread of the virus in the cells of the body or the spread of the immune intuition resulting from this virus through antibodies and causing harm inside the body in general, as for the digestive system, it is through the occurrence of injury The direct or the mechanism of the intestinal capillary vessel injury or the inflammatory intuition and the special damage it causes in the gastrointestinal tube such as the intestinal flora.
With regard to the hepatic symptoms in people with Coronavirus, Dr.Abu Harb pointed out that they are clinical that appear through damage to hepatocytes and patients must be monitored for fear of the increase in yeasts to large numbers, and the percentage of damage to hepatocytes in severe cases ranges between (15 and 50) percent, indicating that the appearance of symptoms Digestion on the patient does not increase the possibility of death, but is only associated with prolonging the disease.
Dr. Abu Harb pointed to the importance of introducing digestive symptoms in the diagnosis of infection with the Coronavirus for people who visit hospitals in the presence or absence of chest symptoms, stressing the need to avoid performing a gastroscopy unless there is a severe indication or an emergency situation.
And about the possibility of infection through the secretions of the digestive system, Dr. Abu Harb said that it is possible because it contains Ayusha particles that infect the virus through (faeces), indicating that the stomach tube contains receptors that will capture the virus, and thus the common information about the role of drinking liquids in killing the virus after entering the stomach is not correct.
Rama Rashidi
