Loss of taste for half a year, Omicron re-infection suddenly regains taste
Many cases only re-infected after 2 weeks and especially some people lost their taste for half a year when re-infection found their taste again.
According to Dr. Truong Huu Khanh, Infection Specialist, Children’s Hospital 1, many patients are bewildered when they find themselves re-infected. They assume that the re-infection will be more severe than the previous one. Basically, most reinfections are milder.
Dr. Khanh took an example of a patient where Dr. Khanh consulted via Zalo message from the outbreak of Ho Chi Minh City in 2021. The patient recovered but lost his taste and smell for a long time and could not be regained.
The patient tried other methods but to no avail. By early March, the patient was re-infected. At that time, the patient was extremely worried, but surprisingly, Omicron was not too severe and especially the taste and smell returned as before.
Dr. Khanh said that the virus so far SARS-CoV-2 It is still diverse, colorful and difficult to predict about it. Dr. Khanh’s point of view is still trying to prevent himself from being infected and when he is infected, it will be good to deal with it calmly. Even in cases of reinfection, re-infection will be treated according to symptoms.
According to Dr. Nguyen Trung Trung, Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, reinfected patients is a new virus infection and disease outbreak. Therefore, they still spread the virus normally and still have the ability to infect others if effective infection prevention measures are not taken.
Usually, cases of reinfection will have a milder clinical course than unvaccinated people who are infected for the first time.
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However, there is still a certain proportion of patients who may have a severe course.
The treatment for re-infection, according to Dr. Level, depends on the specific disease progression of each patient. Those with mild symptoms only need to ensure hygiene and nutrition; treat symptoms (if any).
Those who unfortunately have severe development will be treated according to the pathogenesis of each lesion and apply resuscitation measures if the patient has a critical condition.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Do Van Dung – Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said that reinfection on the same strain is very rare, but re-infection is caused by a new strain of the same strain. Covid-19 popular again.
According to VietNamNet
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