Covid-19 patients report chest pain, diarrhea among newer symptoms: What doctors have to say

Covid-19 cases to 4,42,98,864, while the active cases declined to 1,01,343, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The national death toll climbed to 5,27,206 with 72 fatalities, as per the Health Ministry data.

According to The Economic Times report, Akshay Budhraja, senior consultant, respiratory and sleep medicine at Aakash Healthcare said, “the number of acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction (heart attack) is increasing in Covid positive patients.

There are patients who report non-specific symptoms like chest pain, decreased urine output, diarrhea and then turn out to be Covid positive." Budhraja further noted that “a lot of patients with comorbidities like chronic kidney disease, stroke, hypertension are also contracting Covid and their pre-existing condition is worsening after getting infected with Covid." Rajesh Chawla, senior consultant, respiratory medicine and pulmonology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said that Covid patients are also presenting "giddiness, extreme weakness and temporary loss of smell and taste," according to The Economic Times report. "Fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting and diarrhea are the other common symptoms observed in current patients," Chawla said.

Interestingly, Budhraja noted an important pattern that “the deaths are not entirely because of Covid infection, a few are because of pre-existing chronic lung, heart, kidney disease.