It’s likely that people with COVID-19 experience gastrointestinal symptoms, because the virus directly attacks the gut tissue, says Vincent Ho.
SYDNEY: While we most commonly associate COVID-19 with fever and cough, gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal pain are not unheard of in people who contract coronavirus.
While some researchers have proposed alternative explanations, it’s likely people with COVID-19 experience gastrointestinal symptoms because the virus directly attacks the gut tissue through ACE2 receptors.Clinicians have detected coronavirus in tissue taken from the lining of the gut The researchers found gastrointestinal symptoms became more severe as the COVID-19 illness worsened. And patients with gastrointestinal symptoms were less likely to recover than those without gastrointestinal symptoms.
More than a dozen research groups worldwide are collaborating on a project analysing wastewater for the presence of coronavirus in target populations. This suggests the virus is still actively reproducing in the patient’s gastrointestinal tract long after the virus has cleared from the respiratory tract.In order to prove coronavirus can transmit via the faecal-oral route we’d need to see larger cohort studies.
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