Mumbai: Symptoms of omikron may be labeled mild but many recover from their he said wrestling with extraordinary body pain and weakness for days.
Lower back pain is another recurrent complaint doctor served.
For Vikhroli Resident Namrata (32), the symptoms begin with sore throat, cold and fever.
In a day, he experienced acute pain in his legs and back.
“Every bone on my body is sick.
More than Paracetamol, I need painkillers,” he said, adding that the pain subsided by the third day.
Another resident andheri said his fever and most of the other symptoms subsided with basic fever drugs, but severe pain in the lower back was something he had never experienced.
South African health insurgins have analyzed the symptoms of omicrons and found that sore throat ranks among the most common initial symptoms, with congestion, dry cough and lower back pain.
In Mumbai, the doctor said that low-level fever and headaches were reported by most patients.
In some cases, fatigue and last weakness until the seventh day or eight.
Doctor Dr.
Hemant Thacker said body pain (Mialgia), back pain, low fever, throat irritation, was a classic sign of flu seen in omicron patients.
“In the dengue fever you also get a breaking pain, body pain and back pain for three days before starting to get better.
Likewise, most omikron patients begin to improve on the third or fourth day,” he said, adding that it worsened with diabetes and Hypertension in patients with this disease.
Dr.
Hemant Gupta, Head of Medicine at the JJ Hospital, said lower back pain was sometimes caused by gastritis due to drugs, including antibiotics.
“In many cases, patients already have pain and underlying pain are compounded,” he said.
But most of the many clearly from the virus on the fifth day because their RT-PCR tests turned negative at that time, he added.
The term ‘light’ more for the duration of the disease, said the doctor Dr.
Pratit Samdani.
“Most patients have upper respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal which lasts for three to five days,” he said.
The big difference from Delta is the lungs are not affected.
“We don’t see thromboemboli shows like a stroke, a heart attack,” added Samdani.