Coronavirus affects many organs, including the eyes. The latest research shows that as much as 83 percent. patients experience ophthalmic symptoms within two weeks of the onset of other COVID-19 symptoms, such as fever, cough, muscle pain or headache. When it comes to eyesight, the most important and common - but not the only - symptom of COVID-19 is eye pain.
A study on the effects of coronavirus on the eye and ophthalmic symptoms during COVID-19 was conducted by scientists from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), and the results are published in "BMJ Open Ophthalmology".
People who had a confirmed coronavirus infection received a special infection about the symptoms they experienced and how they relate to the time before the infection.
The results of the survey showed thatpatients developed eye painmuch more often than before contracting COVID-19. 16 percent of them complained about him. patients, while among he althy people - only 5 percent. people.
As much as 18 percent people with COVID-19 suffered from photophobia, but surveys showed that the increase in the number of cases compared to the pre-disease state was small.
At the same time, the survey showed that 83 percent. patients began to experience ophthalmic symptoms within two weeks of the onset of other symptoms of COVID-19. In 80 percent people experiencing eye problems, these disorders lasted less than two weeks.
Among these symptoms, the most frequent one was fatigue, affecting 90 percent. of respondents, fever, from which 76% suffered sick and dry cough affecting 66 percent. of them.
SOURCE: PAP