Experts from the ZOE COVID Study, who study data from infected patients, said that people began to complain of indigestion more often during the outbreak of the Omicron strain.

“We have noticed a dramatic increase in the number of people reporting gastrointestinal manifestations,” the publication says.

The specialists stressed that the trend was observed from mid-December to the end of January.

According to experts, problems with the gastrointestinal tract in infected people really began to occur with "omicron". But doctors believe that the overall increase in reports of such symptoms is not due to the peculiarity of this variant of the coronavirus, ”but to the mistakes of people who mistake them for COVID-19. Experts emphasized that in winter there is often an increase in patients with a similar ailment.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Candidate of Medical Sciences Tatyana Solomatina said that people who have had coronavirus can develop cancer of the lungs and gastrointestinal tract.

According to the deputy, inflammation due to coronavirus can be the initial stage for the development of cancer.

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