APRIL 7, 2020

What is the Significance of GI COVID-19 Symptoms?

By David Wild
Should COVID-19 patients undergo routine fecal testing? What’s the best management approach for those with diarrhea, nausea and vomiting? As emerging data point to gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms as part of the clinical picture of COVID-19, physicians are grappling with how best to approach patients presenting with these clinical symptoms.

Noha Eltoukhy, PharmD, an antimicrobial stewardship program coordinator and a clinical pharmacy specialist in infectious diseases, St. Mary