It’s been almost three years since the deadline Covid it began to flood our lives and, since then, the landscape has changed dramatically. Although infections continue to increase, as the inoculation does not prevent you from getting the disease, the incidence of the disease has decreased and has even been confused with other, much milder conditions.
However, they start to scare the subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 of Ómicron, also known as “hell hound”, which will be the majority in late November or early December, according to the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias. The minister stressed that these variants “are growing at a rapid pace in various European countries”.
The arrival of these new subvariants hasn’t changed the way we identify an infection with SARS-CoV-2. The most common symptoms of the disease continue to be maintained, although its harmful effects have been greatly reduced thanks to the proliferation of vaccines. These are the current most common Covid symptoms:
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Fatigue
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Fever
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Nasal congestion
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Sore throat
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Tos
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loss of smell
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Diarrhea/vomiting
However, while these are the most common symptoms associated with Covid-19, there are others that may go unnoticed as well. They don’t show up in all cases, but they can help identify the disease, as is the case with the one known as «Covid language».
What is Covid language and why is it related to the coronavirus?
According to Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, on his Twitter account, one in five coronavirus patients “experience less common symptoms that are not on the official UK Public Health System (PHE) list.)” . It is the case of skin rasheswhich are often interpreted as allergies, but can also help identify diseases such as Covid.
Among these rashes, the covid language It has been a symptom associated with the coronavirus for more than a year, although in many cases it tends to go unnoticed. So Spector himself explained it in his publication, showing the image of an irritated and discolored tongue that can join other common symptoms of the coronavirus.
One in five people with Covid still have less common symptoms that don’t appear on the official PHE list, such as skin rashes. Seeing an increasing number of Covid tongues and weird mouth ulcers. If you have a strange symptom or even just a headache and tiredness, stay home! pic.twitter.com/V04CiZNilK
— Tim Spector MD (Prof) (@timspector) January 13, 2021
David Strain, a doctor at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in the UK, also confirmed this theory more than a year ago. “At first we treated it as if it was oral candidiasis, but the treatment did not respond. We have now realized that it improves almost at the same time as the sense of taste improves,” explained the expert.
The Covid language is linked to the appearance of strangers mouth ulcers, a pale color on the tongue or a burning sensation on the lips and mouth. The taste disturbances they are also closely related to these oral problems that Covid can cause and which can affect the taste buds and other villi.
On the other hand, this symptom of Covid has also been confirmed by a study carried out by the La Paz Hospital in Madrid and the Madrid Health Service (SEMAS) and published in the British Journal of Dermatology. Analyzing hospitalizations in April 2020, this research concluded that nearly 25% of patients with Covid-19 had tongue and mouth changes.
