Everyone is already accustomed to the fact that covid is infected through the eyes, nose or mouth. These places are linked. Then the virus descends into the lungs, and from this there is a chance to die. In fact, it can slip past the lungs and settle in the stomach. This is not the worst option.
It quickly became clear that covid patients have a sharp decrease in appetite or nausea, or diarrhea, and even with pain. Then they found a virus in their stools.
But it did not immediately realize that this could be a good variant of the disease. The fact is that in the intestines there are the same receptors through which the virus enters the lungs. If you are lucky (this is called "lucky"), the virus will decide to attack not the lungs, but the intestines.
Well, that is, from a large amount of inflammatory fluid in the lungs, a person chokes and dies, and from a large amount of inflammatory fluid in the intestines, there will be diarrhea. Not a bad option, right?
The virus can live in the cells of the stomach, small and large intestines. He was even found literally stuck inside the villi of the intestinal wall.
In Wuhan, one in three patients with pneumonia had diarrhea. In fact, there was a lot of diarrhea from antibiotics, but also from the virus itself.
And the virus excreted from the intestines for much longer than from the nose. They say that on average a month he stood out from there. Maybe the virus is such an option more suitable for breeding. And to hell with him! If only there were less pneumonia. And we will sterilize latrines and other vessels. Is that so?
And of course, the virus does not benefit the intestines. There volvulus can be a terrible exacerbation of chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
In short, if a patient with covid develops diarrhea in a hospital, it is likely that the cause is precisely in the virus. If a person is sick at home and has been suffering from a stomach for more than two days, then it can easily be a covid. If a person with chronic inflammatory bowel disease has an exacerbation, it may be covid.
