If people have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea, they should also pay attention to whether they are infected with the Omicron.
A study by foreign media showed that the Omicron virus may stay in the gut, causing patients to develop six related symptoms.
According to foreign media reports, Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, pointed out that if Omicron stays in the gut, it may cause patients to experience six related symptoms, including nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. and, heartburn and bloating. Patients are most likely to develop this symptom during the first few days of illness. This could mean that a patient may not even test positive until they have abdominal pain.
Spector said the Omicron virus could end up in a patient’s gut, which means that when people are infected with Omicron and have these six symptoms, they may test negative because the Omicron cannot be detected in the nose or mouth.
He also stated that the virus travels to different parts of the body, and Omicron or other variants could attack the gut. At present, traces of long-term residues of the virus have been found in the gut of “Long Covid” patients.
