How exactly are the symptoms of Omicron infection and what are the chances of repeat infection? Will it leave any after-effects after it is cured? In order to gain a deeper understanding of these issues, the Southern Metropolis Daily designed a questionnaire on the infection of omicron, as of December 14, *** counted 158 valid questionnaires recovered, questionnaire results show that about 80% of the people belong to the asymptomatic and mildly ill patients; heavy and critically ill patients are fewer, accounting for a combined total of 4.43%. more than 90% of the people who said that there were no after-effects of the disease, and 98.1% of the people do not presence of repeat infections.
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Fever, cough and body aches were the most common, and nearly 30% of the respondents lost their sense of taste and smell for a short time
Before analyzing the questionnaire, let's introduce the vaccination status of the people who participated in this questionnaire survey, in which 92.41% of the people received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 68.99% of them completed the whole vaccination. This confirms that the current vaccines have not been effective in preventing infections.
What are the possible symptoms of infection with Neoguan Omicron? According to the analysis of the questionnaire results, after infection with Omicron, fever, cough and body aches are the most common symptoms, accounting for 84.81%, 76.58% and 70.89% respectively, with only 7.59% having no obvious symptoms.
The official public website of the Department of Infection at Huashan Medical College of Fudan University recently reported that the most common symptoms of omicron infection include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, muscle aches and headache, which corroborates the results of the current round of questionnaires. It is noteworthy that a number of infected people told Nandu reporters, this round of infection after the fever will appear high fever phenomenon, more than 39 degrees can even reach 40 degrees.
In addition to the above symptoms, the infected people also generally reflected the emergence of nasal congestion, upper respiratory tract pain; in addition, some infected people appear to be mentally unhelpful, insomnia and gastrointestinal discomfort, and transient loss of taste and smell, and there are also individuals reflecting slight discomfort in the heart, chest tightness, shortness of breath and dyspnea.
More than 70% of the post-infection symptoms were mild, and the seven patients with severe critical type were young and middle-aged
In March 2022, the National Health Commission issued the ninth version of the diagnosis and treatment program for new coronavirus pneumonia, which classifies people with the disease according to their symptoms, which are mild, common, severe and critical.
From the type of infected people in this questionnaire, 74.05% of the infected people are "mild", i.e., mild fever, cough and no pneumonia, 15.82% are "common", with fever, upper respiratory symptoms, pneumonia, etc., and only 5.7% are "severe", i.e., with fever, upper respiratory symptoms and pneumonia. Only 5.7% are asymptomatic infected people, an asymptomatic infected people have told the Nandu reporter, its nucleic acid test results, although "positive", but the infected only appeared in the dry itchy throat, no fever, five days after the disappearance of the symptoms, ten days after the nucleic acid test results turn negative.
Another six people showed "severe" symptoms, including fever, cough, and even shortness of breath. It is worth noting that all six people were under 60 years old, and all of them had completed the full course of vaccination except for one who had received two doses, and one of the infected people with underlying disease found that the underlying disease had worsened significantly.
One of the 158 infected persons was "critical": he was under 30 years of age, had completed at least three doses of vaccination, and had developed respiratory failure, shock, and interstitial pneumonitis during 230 days of treatment in the hospital with invasive ventilation and extracorporeal pulmonary circulation. Respondents reported that they still had impaired lung function after healing.
It is worth noting that this round of omicron epidemic, the elderly over 60 years old is generally considered to be the infection of the vulnerable population, due to the limitations of the survey sample, the questionnaire was collected only two elderly people infected, the two are suffering from underlying diseases, respectively, to complete the two injections of vaccination, three injections and above the strengthening of the vaccination, after infection, the two old people belong to "light "
Because of this, there was no significant aggravation of the underlying disease.
Because this round of questionnaires older people to fill out a relatively low percentage of the elderly group can not yet be infected with a detailed analysis and judgment, but the Nandu reporter in previous interviews found that a number of vaccinated older people, even if there is an underlying disease are also mild and successfully recovered, and not vaccinated older people are prone to turn into a serious disease.
An unvaccinated 79-year-old patient previously considered diabetes, no vaccination, no obvious symptoms of pre-infection until the eighth night accidentally fell, followed by a fever of 40 degrees, and constantly coughing and shortness of breath, admitted to the hospital found that both lungs have been severely infected, pleural effusion, oxygen saturation is only 88%, in accordance with the ninth edition of the new crown diagnostic and treatment program, the oxygen saturation is less than 93% is the According to the ninth edition of the New Crown Diagnostic and Treatment Program, oxygen saturation below 93% is considered "heavy". After continuous symptomatic treatment, the 19th day of infection with the new crown virus, the elderly nucleic acid results only turned negative discharge.
96.2% self-reported no after-effects of New Crown, and 98.1% of respondents did not encounter repeat infections
The existence of after-effects after recovery from the disease is a matter of considerable concern in this round of omicron infection. Several infection experts said in previous interviews that there is no evidence that the new crown omicron can cause sequelae.
The results of the questionnaire survey showed that 96.2% of the people said they found no sequelae, and of the six people who gave feedback on the existence of sequelae, four said their sense of taste was affected, such as loss of taste and sensitivity, while others said they experienced weakness, sore throat, dry eyes, forgetfulness or reduced motor skills.
The medical community has not yet reached a conclusion on whether there are any sequelae of the new crowns. Some scholars refer to the loss of taste and smell, arthralgia, memory loss, chest pain, and coughing that occurs after the results of the nucleic acid test have turned negative as "long new crowns," or long-term symptoms of the new crowns. It is believed that "long new crown" and "new crown sequelae" are two different concepts, and the permanent and irreversible nature of the sequelae is not mentioned in the expression "long new crown".
Another concern is the problem of repeat infections. The questionnaire results showed that 98.1 percent of people did not have repeat infections, but that may be because this round of omikujon has just emerged as an epidemic trend in the country, and the population has not yet seen a second round of infections.
Li Dong, chief physician of the department of infection synthesis at Beijing You'an Hospital and a medical expert at the Xiaotangshan Square Cabin Hospital, had recently told the media that although infection with the new coronavirus will gain immunity against the strain for a certain period of time, it doesn't mean that there won't be a repeat infection. "Infection once does not provide lifelong immunity, with similar characteristics and influenza, due to the many types of viruses, rapid mutation, easy to escape from the body's immune mechanism, which is why the influenza vaccine should be vaccinated every year, because the probability of repeated infections is very high."
Nandu has also previously reported on the experiences of two people who developed repeat infections, both of whom received two doses of the vaccine before their first infection, but the severity of their post-infection symptoms varied. One of the two infected more than five months between infections, are mild; the other infected four times, in addition to the first symptomless, the remaining three times are showing obvious fever, cough and muscle pain and other symptoms, at present the two also did not appear after-effects, but the two people have said that repeated infections, on the contrary, so that they have been gradually accustomed to the omikron*** at the disease feel no longer panicky.
Only 6.33 percent of people are afraid of omicron, and more than 80 percent of them have been treated at home
So the symptoms of the round of infection with omicron are mild, and in fact, people's fear of omicron is dissolving. According to the results of the questionnaire survey, for the infection of the new crown after the psychological feeling, only 6.33% of people will feel fear, another 44.3% of people choose to "worry about affecting other people", 26.58% of people will feel anxious; 33.54% of people "no feelings "while 27.22% of people said "a stone in their hearts fell to the ground", and even 13.92% of people feel excited.
In addition to the symptoms, the questionnaire also investigated how long it took to recover from the infection of omikron, and after excluding the answer of "not yet recovered",*** there were 136 valid answers. Analysis of the results showed that the recovery time ranged from 1 to 15 days, with about 50 percent of the respondents recovering in 5-7 days; among them, the largest number of respondents recovered in 7 days, accounting for 29.4% of the total, followed by 5 days, accounting for 17.6%. Most of the rest were under 5 days, and a few were over 7 days.
With the major shift in anti-epidemic policy in this round, several experts and scholars have called for home quarantine treatment to be an option for people infected with omicron because of mild symptoms. The results of this round of questionnaires show that 83.54 percent of infected people are undergoing health monitoring at home, with a combined 11.39 percent in hospitals and square pods for treatment and monitoring, and 5.06 percent in centralized isolation sites such as hotels.
The Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Medical College affiliated with Fudan University also believes that 99.5% of people infected with omicron can be treated at home without worry, and only 0.5% need to go to the hospital for hospitalization, and that infected people should learn to self-monitor their symptoms and observe their body temperatures, pulses, and oxygen saturations, and that they should go to the hospital in time when they experience a drop in oxygen saturation to less than 95% or when they experience a persistent high temperature or fever accompanied by obvious respiratory distress. The first step is to go to the hospital for medical treatment.
Lots of water to take common cold medicine to cope with, nearly 40% choose to supplement high protein
For the majority of light, ordinary patients, how to deal with the infection? Questionnaire results show that the vast majority of people will choose to drink a lot of water, more than one-third of people will choose to eat eggs and milk and other high-protein foods, more than half of the people will eat cold medicine, some people will take more than one kind of medicine at the same time. For example, some people will take "white plus black" "Tylenol" and other cold medicine and painkillers at the same time, and some people will take Chinese medicine or pCms on top of that.
The Nandu reporter noted that recently there are a lot of infected with the new crown after the wrong medication, resulting in acute liver injury admitted to the hospital, and some even into the ICU. in this regard, a number of experts in the field of medical care, said that the common cold medicine such as "white plus black" "Tylenol "and some proprietary Chinese medicines such as" cold particles "contain" acetaminophen "ingredients, some people eat several kinds of cold medicine at the same time, some people eat cold medicine and eat painkillers, resulting in an overdose of drugs, aggravate the burden on the internal organs, and even cause acute liver and kidney failure. The company's website has been updated with the latest information about the company's website, including a list of its products and services.
Experts suggest that do not eat a variety of cold medicines together, the best to read the instructions carefully when taking medicines, check the active ingredients, especially acetaminophen is not repeated; also do not eat a cold medicine containing acetaminophen ingredients, but also eat antipyretic medicine; the same effect, such as antipyretic medicine to eat only a kind of medicine is not recommended to eat alternately with acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
Writing: Nandu reporter Jiang Xiaotian Guo Ruomei trainee reporter Zhao Linxuan from Beijing
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