For more than a year, one of the most serious health crises of the modern era has been experienced. So far it has already caused more than four million deaths and the number is increasing daily. In the same way, there are people who are infected and manage to overcome the disease but that does not mean that they are already safe. One of the biggest problems that is already a reality is the persistent Covid-19. It has even been mentioned that the affectations caused by the infection could remain for months and perhaps never disappear.
For this reason, investigations are carried out around the world on a permanent basis. The goal is to get a bigger picture of everything the infection involves. At this time, it has not yet been possible to determine why some patients do not develop symptoms and others do. In addition to that there are more questions that remain to be answered.
Illness that does not go away right away
Now, when speaking specifically of persistent Covid-19, its clearest definition is that it is the infection when it remains in the patient for a long period. When the sequelae remain for more than 12 weeks after leaving the hospital this name is used.
Based on previous studies, it has been observed that there are four main sequelae that occur more frequently in patients. In fact, some develop two, three, and even all of the aforementioned complaints.
- Loss of smell
- Loss of taste
- Dyspnoea.
- Fatigue.
Most common sequelae in patients
On the other hand, the English magazine Nature has just published the results of the most comprehensive research of its kind ever done. As part of a killing analysis, it was found that persistent Covid-19 is associated with 48 different sequelae that occur more frequently.
Our study on Covid đŸ¦ Persistent or Long-haul has finally been published in @SciReports
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The work mentions that 80 percent of patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus developed one or more long-term symptoms. While the complete list is as follows:
- Fatigue.
- Headache.
- Attention disorder.
- Hair loss.
- Dyspnea (shortness of breath or shortness of breath).
- Ageusia (loss of sense of taste).
- Anosmia (loss of the sense of smell).
- Polypnea (increased respiratory rate and depth).
- Joint pain
- Cough.
- Sweating
- Nausea or vomiting
- Chest pain, discomfort.
- Memory loss.
- Hearing loss or tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in one or both ears).
- Anxiety.
- Depression.
- Digestive disorders
- Weightloss.
- Skin signs.
- Increased heart rate at rest.
- Palpitations
- Pain.
- Intermittent fever
- Sleep disorders
- Reduced lung capacity
- Sleep apnea (breathing repeatedly stops and starts while sleeping).
- Shaking chills.
- Impairment on mental health.
- Psychiatric illnesses.
- Red eyes.
- Pulmonary fibrosis.
- Pallor.
- Diabetes mellitus.
- Phlegm
- Swelling in the extremities.
- Dizziness.
- Apoplexy.
- Throat pain.
- Humor changes.
- Dysphoria (feeling uncomfortable, unhappy, or feeling ill).
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- New hypertension.
- Myocarditis (inflammation of the myocardium, of the heart).
- Renal insufficiency.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat).
- Paranoia.