The current health emergency is at a time of grave concern and its end still looks far away. Although a “plateau” has been achieved worldwide with respect to new infections, it does not mean that the worst has ended. One of the biggest fears is that a regrowth may occur at the end of the year as it happened last season. In addition, there are still several unanswered questions such as the fact that some people develop persistent Covid-19 and others do not.
In this sense, every day thousands of people are infected around the world. But while in some cases they show moderate pictures of the disease, others develop serious phases that put their integrity at risk and even require hospitalization.
Children are in danger too
Once you leave the hospital, you may think that the infection is over, but this is not always the case. The next aspect to face is related to the discomfort and sequelae that some people develop. When they are maintained for more than 12 weeks, the term persistent Covid-19 is used.
However, in recent months there has been an exponential increase in infections within children and adolescents. While at the beginning of the pandemic they were thought to be immune, it has now been proven that this is not the case. In fact, since face-to-face classes have been resumed, outbreaks within schools have increased.
But just as it is now known that children can also become infected, they are also at risk of suffering a serious stage of the disease and even dying. Based on a study published in The British Medical Journal one in seven minors develops persistent Covid-19.
Most frequent problems
But that is not all because the research also focused on identifying the most frequent discomforts that children and adolescents develop when they suffer from this stage of the disease and it was found that there are two main sequelae.
For its part, it was identified that 15 weeks after infection, the most common sequel is fatigue. The biggest drawback is that it does not allow a correct quality of life in affected minors. While another important aspect is that its total duration is unknown. For the same reason, it has been suspected that this sequel could last forever.
While within the adult population the picture is not very different. Just a couple of months ago, a study was published in The Lancet in which they were obtained a total of 203 sequelae that can be maintained for up to seven months after leaving the hospital. While from the extensive list, the ones that are repeated most frequently are the following:
- Fatigue.
- Tiredness.
- Mental confusion.
- Visual hallucinations
- Tremors
- Skin itch.
- Changes in the menstrual cycle.
- Sexual dysfunction
- Heart palpitations
- Bladder control problems.
- Herpes.
- Memory loss.
- Blurry vision.
- Diarrhea.
- Tinnitus