Asthenia (abnormal fatigue), cough and fever: here are the most common symptoms listed by Public Health France, after having studied those of a large majority of patients affected by the Omicron variant, which continues to increase the number of contaminations in the territory at great speed.
Affected patients also have a sore throat or headache to a lesser extent, are short of breath, or have a runny nose, with vaccination reducing severe forms of the disease.
Very rarely, contamination with this variant has also led to nausea or vomiting. On the other hand, people infected with Omicron suffer quite rarely from loss of taste or smell.
The list of “other” symptoms
Do you think you haven’t had the virus since it appeared at the end of 2019? You may be wrong… There are other symptoms that are less obvious than others. We can then imagine that some of us have been infected without knowing it, since people who feel fit… do not test themselves.
hair loss
Many testimonials of cases tested positive attest to a loss of volume or downright hair loss, wrote theIndependent, which reports the word of the American Dermatologists Association.
The report (in English) speaks of telogen effluvium, a disruption of the hair cycle which results in abundant hair loss when brushing or washing. It can occur within two months after a high fever but also various infections or surgical shock.
“There are a lot of consultations for telogen effluvium during this period, directly or not linked to Covid”, confirms Isabelle Gallay, dermatologist in Dijon (Côte-d’Or) and vice-president of the union of dermatology and venerology (SNDV).
ear pain
Always on the side of the United States, Stanford University researchers recently reported discovering a possible inner ear infection due to the Omicron variant. If pain has been observed in several patients, this symptom is not yet officially listed by Public Health France.
Dr. Chin-Hong, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of California (UCSF), says that this evil is almost logical in the case of Omicron, since the whole ENT circuit is “clogged”, still reports theIndependent.
“I had a runny nose and an earache that reminded me of my childhood, when I suffered from ear infections. I thought I had caught a cold, but I would not have imagined for a second that it was Covid-19, ”says Coralie, infected with the virus during the end of year celebrations.
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A shrinking penis, erectile dysfunction…
Yes, you read that right… The virus would attack… the size of the penis, Insider tells us. We then speak of “covid penis” or “Covid dick” in English.
The finding comes from the testimony of a man, a 30-year-old American, who said he was affected by erection problems, but also observed a decrease in the size of his penis after developing a severe form of the virus. , last summer. “My penis has shrunk by almost 4 cm”, he confided in the American version of Slate, early January.
If we can smile or tell ourselves that the information is false, we must not neglect it. Indeed, according to doctors, the virus can have a real impact on the blood flow which prevents the penis from erecting. After infection, men may indeed suffer from poor blood supply. In May 2021, the Korean medical journal World Journal of Men’s Health, published results in this direction.
… and consequences on fertility
In addition, the Covid can have consequences on fertility, as explained last September by doctor Aaron Spitz, urologist and author of The Penis Book: A Doctor’s Complete Guide to the Penis, at Slate “In about 5% of cases, infections revealed a negative effect on male fertility, a drop in sperm count and motility, or movement”.
So yes, it has been proven that when men are infected with Covid, “and in particular in the most serious cases of this small percentage, there can be an impact on their fertility”.
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