Coronavirus: Everything you need to know

A coronavirus is an acute disease, which is responsible for causing illness or infection in your upper throat and nose, resulting in sinuses. Coronavirus belongs to a large family of viruses. The majority of the coronaviruses are not dangerous to health. But some of them, including the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-COV), Novel coronavirus (nCOV), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-COV), can result in more severe diseases.

According to MERS reports, around 858 people have died due to the MERS virus during the year 2012 in Saudi Arabia, which was further spread to several countries, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Indiana, Florida, Korea, and in the countries in the Middle East. While in 2003, the massive spread of the SARS virus was reported to kill about 774 people. Moreover, during the year 2019, a new type of infection called virus coronavirus (nCOV) was discovered by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Coronavirus is known to affect and transmit between both humans and animals. It spreads through a normal way just as cold-causing viruses just by coming in close contact with people suffering from cold, touching infected person’s hands or by touching the things touched by the infected person. Some coronaviruses are known to spread among animals only while virus including SARS-COV usually transmits from coronavirus in cats to humans whereas MERS-COV spreads from dromedary camels to humans.

Signs and symptoms

There are various signs and symptoms through which a person can identify whether or not a person is suffering from the Coronavirus. These include:

Runny nose: A normal flow of nose can be due to cold or weather change, and it lasts for a short time. In case your nose flows in excessive amounts and lasts for a longer time, it might be a matter of concern and come out as a symptom of the coronavirus.

Coughing: If a person is coughing most of the time, he might be showing the signs of the coronavirus, which needs to be checked by your doctor.

Sore throat: A sore throat can be described as the feeling of pain, irritation, and scratchiness in the throat, which may get worse while you swallow the food. Sore through is a medical condition, which does not occur frequently and mainly spreads due to the coronavirus.

Shortness of breath: If a person experiences uneasiness or shortness in breathing, he might be showing signs of the coronavirus.

Headache: A person infected from the coronavirus may suffer severe headaches lasting for a long time.

Fever: A normal fever lasts for a maximum of 2-3 days. If it lasts for more than that, then it may be a sign of the coronavirus.

If neglected, these symptoms can turn severe, resulting in diseases such as infection spreading to the lower respiratory tract, which causes pneumonia among older people, heart disease patients, infants, people with a weak immune system, kidney failure, severe respiratory syndrome, and death (rare case). The appearance of these symptoms takes a total time of about 2 to 10 days after coming in contact with a coronavirus.

Causes

Some common coronaviruses such as types 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1 can result in causing mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illness, including the common cold, pneumonia, and bronchitis. Moreover, the other two human coronaviruses, including MERS-COV and SARS-COV can result in causing harmful symptoms.

Diagnosis

If you come across any of these symptoms, visit your doctor to get it diagnosed. You may need to go through various lab tests such as nose test, throat culture test, blood work test, and respiratory specimens and serum to detect whether your symptoms are related to the coronavirus or not. While you are going for MERS diagnosis, it is essential to let your doctor know if you had a traveling history or if you have been exposed to camels or camel products earlier.

Preventive measures

Catching the coronavirus is something, which lies in a human’s control. By indulging some simple habits, we can avoid the catching of viruses from infected people. To reduce the spread of the coronavirus, hand sanitizing is the first and foremost step to follow. Viruses causing cold and flu bugs are mainly spread through droplets of a person’s cough and sneeze. The droplets are further touched by a non-infected person by coming in contact with the hand of an infected person or by touching an object on which the droplets have landed. It results in the spreading of the coronavirus to the person’s nose, mouth, and eyes. So, washing our hands frequently with soaps or hand wash can help to avoid these problems and keep us away from catching the virus.

There are several more tips through which you can avoid the spread of the coronavirus. These include:

•Make a habit of carrying your hand sanitizer with you whenever you move out and make frequent cleaning of hands to avoid the spread of the virus to your eyes, nose, and mouth.

•Always wash your hands before eating

•Whenever you visit places such as a busy airport or travel by public transport, be careful with touching things, it may can droplets of an infected person’s cough or sneeze.

•Always carry a handkerchief or disposable tissue to avoid the spread of droplets whenever you cough or sneeze. Make sure you dispose of the tissue safely in a bin after use.

•Avoid eating anything from packets or bowls in which other people are dipping their hands into.

•If you come through a person who is infected by the coronavirus, try to avoid shaking hands with them, it will result in spreading the infection to you.

•Make a habit to regularly clean your surrounding objects and things, which you use daily.

Treatment

In case of a common cold, it gets cured on its own. However, it can result in spreading severe diseases such as pneumonia, which needs to be treated by your doctor. Viral pneumonia has no specified treatment available. Some other symptoms, such as fever and discomfort, can be treated with the help of drugs such as aspirin and ibuprofen. Moreover, secondary infections can be treated with the help of antibiotics.

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