COVID-19 or fall allergy symptoms? Video explains how to tell them apart
Is it fall allergies or COVID-19?
There are symptoms of stuffy nose, post nasal drip, sneezing and wheezing, so it makes you wonder.
Cleveland Clinic allergist, Dr. Sandra Hong, says in a health video report that fall allergy symptoms can be easily confused with those of COVID-19.
And she explains how we can tell them apart.
“Things that, I think, make a difference and help you decide, is it allergies or is it COVID? With COVID we don’t have as much sneezing and as much itching,” she explained. “So, if you’ve noticed every single year that you’ve gotten the same sorts of symptoms during the fall time, it probably is more allergy-related.”
Hong said fever and loss of taste and smell are possible with severe allergies, but more common with COVID-19. Fatigue is also a COVID-related symptom, but allergy suffers can feel fatigued too. However, when fatigue is allergy-related it can sometimes be due to allergy medications causing drowsiness.
COVID-related fatigue is often more debilitating.
“COVID fatigue however, a lot of times people have fevers, a lot of times people are actually really achy with COVID and they feel really fatigued so much so that they just don’t want to get out of bed, we don’t see that nearly as much with allergies unless they are extremely severe allergies,” said Hong.
See the video above for more.
This story was originally published October 11, 2021 at 2:01 PM.
