This could be the earliest symptom of COVID-19. It appears four days before the others

Coronavirus infection can have multiple symptoms that affect different areas of the body. However, research in Iran has identified one symptom that often affects the sick first. Infected people usually feel it four days before other ailments appear.

1. The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are cough, fever and fatigue
2. In the case of the new Omicron mutations, doctors noted that the dominant symptom is a sore throat
3. Iranian scientists have found that a dry throat may be one of the earliest signs that we have contracted the coronavirus. This symptom appears even a few days before the rest of the ailments
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The coronavirus is constantly mutating into new variants. Many of them have different symptoms that can affect many different parts of the body — starting with the nose, continuing through the stomach, ending with the skin. However, studies published in the medical journal Future Virology prove that the initial symptom is usually in the throat. This symptom was the first to occur in 60 percent. people covered by the study.

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A dry throat may be the first symptom of COVID-19

The study in question was conducted from mid-May to the end of June 2020 on five women and five men infected with COVID-19, hospitalized in the infectious diseases ward of Shahid Behesthi Hospital in Kashan, Iran. Doctors quickly noticed that six of these patients complained of a xerostomous dry throat as early as three or four days before the onset of other symptoms. In the remaining cases, this ailment appeared two days after the onset of other symptoms. In the case of eight patients, the unpleasant pain was alleviated just a few days after starting the treatment.

The team studying this relationship therefore concluded that A nagging dry throat may be taken as the earliest symptom of coronavirus infectionbecause in most of the respondents it appeared before the most common symptoms of the disease, such as fever, cough or shortness of breath.

“Therefore, it can be hypothesized that a dry throat could be used for early diagnosis, quarantine and medical countermeasures. This would prevent further disease transmission and achieve the best treatment results » — found researchers quoted by the British Daily Express.