Long COVID is actually a coronavirus infection that becomes chronic, the symptoms do not go away even after many months. Medicine knows more and more such cases. Here is one of them.
Long COVIDis a new phenomenon, but as the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus spreads around the world, the number of cases of the chronic form of COVID-19 is also increasing. Fortunately, it only applies to individual cases, but so far no one knows what causes the so-called. long COVID or how to help affected patients.
Long COVID - what is it? Common symptoms
Fortunately, the phenomenon of "long COVID" occurs very rarely, as most patients have mild or even asymptomatic infection. But there are also those who have symptoms of infection for a long time (many weeks or even months). Moreover, all of these people can have very different ailments, which shows how individual it is to undergo COVID-19.
Patients affected by "long COVID" most often complain about:
- paralyzing fatigue
- shortness of breath
- dry fatiguing cough
- muscle and joint pain
- hearing and vision problems
- headaches
- loss of smell and taste
- damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys and intestines
- depression
- anxiety
- confusion in the head (so-called mind fog)
- difficulty concentrating
Scientists and doctors still do not know what causes the persistence of disease symptoms after coronavirus infection, and even less how to help the sick. Perhaps the next months and new research will bring some conclusions.
Interestingly, long COVID can occur in both those who have developed a severe course of the disease and those who have been infected with the coronavirus mildly.
Long COVID - example
On the so-called long COVID suffers, among others 48-year-old Belfast resident, Margaret McAtamney. She contracted COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic,in March . Unfortunately, she suffers from COVID-19 to this day. He remembers that the first symptoms of the disease were a burning sensation in the chest, "as if someone was sitting on it". "I couldn't breathe at all and a few days later I called an ambulance" - reported the woman inDaily Mail.
Unfortunately, aftereight monthssignificant weakness or pain in the chest did not pass at all: - I have it from morning to evening, it is bearable, but sometimes it is really hard. I couldn't do without inhalers, confesses Margaret McAtamney. Due to the persistence of "long COVID", the woman had to resign from her teaching position.
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