TRIBUNPALU.COM – In addition to fever, cough, and fatigue, another common symptom that occurs in Covid-19 patients is headache.
Not only in Covid-19, headaches are also a common symptom in other respiratory infections such as influenza.
“Viruses can be associated with headaches, although often it’s not the main complaint,” says Amit Sachdev, MD, Associate Medical Director for the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Michigan State University, United States. Prevention.
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The World Health Organization has published the symptoms that are often experienced in Covid-19 patients.
There are 11 symptoms ranked by the WHO with fever, cough, and fatigue being the top.
Other symptoms that are also often found are muscle or body pain, headache, loss of new taste or smell, sore throat, nasal congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.
The report, published in February 2020, the early days of the pandemic, analyzed nearly 56,000 cases of Covid-19 in China.
They found that 13.6 percent of the patients had headaches.
That’s well below those with fever (87.9%), dry cough (67.7%), and fatigue (38.1%).
But equivalent to people experiencing sore throat (13.9%) and muscle aches and pains (14.8%).
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