With the beginning of spring and, especially, in the first weeks, the first allergy outbreaks occur. A habitual practice in these dates where the temperature begins to rise with the arrival of good weather, but allergy should not be confused with Covid-19. These two diseases have a series of symptoms that can coincide and cause some confusion among people who suffer from allergies each year.
To avoid the increase in alarmism among society, the Spanish Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (Seaic) issued a press release to reassure and explain that “allergic patients are not at increased risk of contracting COVID-19 infection, but the asthmatic population must exercise caution” and also stressed the possibility that “allergic children have the same risk of contracting COVID-19 than those who are not. ”
Allergy symptoms
The allergy is the nervous, eruptive or respiratory alteration that originates in the immune system due to a sensitivity that the body suffers from coming into contact with certain substances, which in a good state of the system would not occur. Most common symptoms:
- Nasal congestion
- Sneeze
- Low fever (prolonged fever)
- Nasal needle
- Cough
Covid-19 Symptoms
Covid-19 is a type of virus within the coronavirus family that can be passed from person to person and the World Health Organization (WHO) He defines it as an “infectious disease caused by the coronavirus that has been discovered more recently. Both the new virus and the disease were unknown before the outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019.” Most common symptoms:
- Fever
- Headache
- Dry cough
- Fatigue
- Difficult to breathe
Differences between allergy and Covid-19
Having explained the symptoms of allergy and Covid-19 we can deduce that they are not the same type of disease. The symptoms caused by the allergy come from a pathology where fever, dry cough or difficulty in breathing hardly appear, symptoms more typical of the coronavirus that is affecting more than 25,000 people in Spain. Therefore, if in these weeks you experience an allergy, do not panic because you will not have more chances of ending up getting coronavirus.
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