{"id":7789,"date":"2024-10-02T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:54:23","slug":"how-covid-19-messes-up-your-gut-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/02\/how-covid-19-messes-up-your-gut-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Messes Up Your Gut Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7027179\/covid-19-gastrointestinal-symptoms\/\">Time<\/a> When you reach for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7023433\/covid-19-tests-free-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a COVID-19 test<\/a>, it\u2019s probably because you\u2019ve got a scratchy throat, runny nose, or cough. But those are far from the only symptoms that make Dr. Rohit Jain, an internal medicine doctor at PennState Health, suspect the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days, when someone complains of nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting, \u201cI always get a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7023433\/covid-19-tests-free-orders\/\">COVID test<\/a>\u00a0on that patient,\u201d Jain says. Why? Despite its reputation as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 can also have a profound impact on the gut. Although most people don\u2019t realize it, \u201cCOVID-19 really is a GI-tract disease\u201d as well as a respiratory illness, says Dr. Mark Rupp, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what to know about the gastrointestinal symptoms of COVID-19. While some people experience no gastrointestinal symptoms or mild ones, a subset of COVID-19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2352304220301185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">patients have experienced significant digestive symptoms<\/a>\u00a0since the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7027179\/covid-19-gastrointestinal-symptoms\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time When you reach for\u00a0a COVID-19 test, it\u2019s probably because you\u2019ve got a scratchy throat, runny nose, or cough. But those are far from the only symptoms that make Dr. Rohit Jain, an internal medicine doctor at PennState Health, suspect the virus. These days, when someone complains of nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting, \u201cI always get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}