{"id":108903,"date":"2020-06-19T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/clinicians-identify-pink-eye-as-possible-primary-symptom-of-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-06-19T19:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:43:33","slug":"clinicians-identify-pink-eye-as-possible-primary-symptom-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/clinicians-identify-pink-eye-as-possible-primary-symptom-of-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Clinicians identify pink eye as possible primary symptom of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clinicians-identify-pink-eye-as-possible-primary-symptom-of-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A case of pink eye is now reason to be tested for COVID-19, according to University of Alberta researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Coughing, fever and difficulty breathing are common symptoms of the illness, but a recent case study involving an Edmonton woman and published in the <i>Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology<\/i> has determined that conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis can also be primary symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>In March, a 29-year-old woman arrived at the Royal Alexandra Hospital\u2019s Eye Institute of Alberta with a severe case of conjunctivitis and minimal respiratory symptoms. After the patient had undergone several days of treatment with little improvement\u2014and after it had been determined that the woman had recently returned home from Asia\u2014a resident ordered a COVID-19 test. The test came back positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of pink eye is now reason to be tested for COVID-19, according to University of Alberta researchers. Coughing, fever and difficulty breathing are common symptoms of the illness, but a recent case study involving an Edmonton woman and published in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology has determined that conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis can also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}