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Running nose.
How to differentiate between normal cold and corona virus symptoms?
i am having running nose, a bit of headache, watery eyes, no fever, mild coughing. i am having all this since laast 2 days.
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Keep taking lot of oral fluids, since this is a flu season running could be there. See if you have any contact with COVID patients. Watch for fever and check saturation if you have pulse oximetry. If you still having doubt get an RT PCR done.
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Can you please be more specific.
Try to explain what is happening
You can describe in whatever way you like, that's not a problem.
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Hello there, the symptoms in normal cold and covid19 disease are very overlapping.
Fever is most common symptom in covid19.
Loss of smell and taste sensation, bodyache and lethargy are also observed in covid19 but less frequently.
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Get a covid19 pcr test done.
drink lots of fluids,
take montek-LC 1 OD for 3 days, it will provide relief.
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