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Recently, the number of positive cases of COVID-19 variant Omicron increasing in Indonesia, Mother. According to the WHO, most of the exposed patients were patients who had been vaccinated and had only milder symptoms than the previous variant.
Robert G. Lahita MD, Ph.D. (“Dr. Bob”), Director of the Institute for Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases at Saint Joseph Health and author of Immunity Strong, revealed that there are several types of food that should not be consumed when exposed to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Mother. One of them is orange.
Eating a diet rich in oranges and drinking orange juice for vitamin C may seem like a natural immune booster to achieve when sick. However, Dr. Bob said in the case of having an Omicron, it would not be satisfying to eat.
“Food that consists of Orange and foods that are slightly acidic, will be very, very difficult to swallow,” said Dr Bob.
When the sore throat is severe, it is difficult to swallow some food. That’s why start with very soft and tender foods.
Broths and protein shakes are healthy recommendations for consumption. In addition, ice cream can also be added to the list of foods with Omicron sufferers.
“If you don’t have diabetes, (eat) ice cream. Something easy to swallow. (It) gives you glucose as well as protein, so you can at least keep your weight off,” says Dr. Bob quoted Eat This.
Unlike other variants of COVID-19, Omicron has distinctive symptoms. The symptoms are said to be lighter, Mother.
“From our hospital, it turned out that most of them were symptoms of cough and sore throat,” said the Lung Doctor at the Friendship Hospital, Dr. Erlina Burhan, SpP(K).
Doctor Erlina said that the symptoms that appeared in the previous COVID-19 variant were dominated by fever. At least, for the Alpha, Beta, and Delta variants of the COVID-19 virus, about 90 percent of patients have a fever.
Well, in the Omicron variant, fever symptoms are only found in a small proportion of patients. In addition, patients exposed to Omicron also did not experience lung problems, such as shortness of breath to require oxygen.
“The fever is only 18-20 percent. Then there is no shortness of breath, need oxygen, Omicron or probable Omicron,” said Doctor Erlina.
Even though the symptoms are relatively mild, you should still be aware of this new variant of COVID-19. Doctor Erlina advised the public to be more vigilant if they experience symptoms of coughing or itching in the throat.
On this occasion, Doctor Erlina also revealed the percentage of Omicron patients who had lung problems. He also explained about the proliferation of this virus in the respiratory tract.
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(mua / pri)
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