'The symptoms we're seeing include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, a high temperature which are similar to gastroenteritis or the Norovirus.' Here's what to look out for.
Alongside the common respiratory viral infection which sees a rise in case numbers across Northern Ireland at this time of year, there's another bug that's going around too.
Leading Northern Ireland GP, Dr Alan Stout has outlined what symptoms you need to look out for and how they can be treated. "There are more cases of vomiting and diarrhoea in the practice over the past few weeks amongst both children and adults but there are no alerts or particular trends just yet or a formal diagnosis."
Dr Stout said the rise in cases is linked to people mixing with no barriers again and after the recent reopening of schools. "We've been protected from that over the past few years so our immune systems aren't quite used to it," he added.
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