What happens to your lungs on coronavirus
This is exactly the way the infectious disease can devastate your lungs and put your life in danger.
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate the world, the number of deaths of death has quickly styled. Now, most of us are educated on prevention measures (which include social distancing, appropriate hand hygiene and the regular disinfection of surfaces) and can identify in depth symptoms (fever, dry cough, shortness of breath, sense of sense of smell).
However, there is still a lot of confusion about what is happening exactly inside our body once the highly infectious and potentially fatal virus enters and how it can completely ravage the lungs at the point of death.
Eating this, not that health has spoken toNaftali Kaminski, MD, Boehringer-Ingelheim has endowed professor of internal medicine, head ofPulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine who explains exactly what happens to your lungs on coronavirus via a useful diagram illustrated byDr. Arnaud Marlier, Ph.D.Research scientist associated with neurosurgery, Yale Medicine School.
These are your lungs
That's what a healthy respiratory system looks like.
That's what happens when you breathe in the air
And so you breathe in the air with a healthy respiratory system with the help of cells, whose main objective is to exchange oxygen molecules and carbon dioxide towards and from the blood.
The virus enters the body
Then Covid-19 comes. "Most COVID-19 infections occur through the nose and mouth, many of the infected people have light symptoms or no symptoms, but the virus is in the respiratory tract and spreads by them," explains the DR Kaminski.
A light disease can occur
Depending on the research, 80% of COVID-19 cases are light. Some people are asymptomatic, while others could experience avariety of symptoms-The have a dry cough, fever, shortness of breath, fatigue, sense of sense of smell or taste, gastrointestinal problems, or even pink eyes.
Severe infection can occur
Unfortunately, 15% of CIVID-19 patients experience severe infection. "The severe presentation is often characterized by inflammation of the lung, the inflammatory cells infiltrating the accumulation of lung and fluid, which causes breathlessness", declares Dr. Kaminski. In these cases, recovery is delayed because the body continues to combat severe infection and oxygen difficulties.
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARD) can occur
About five percent of COVID-19 cases are essential to a serious risk of death. "In the most severe presentation, the patient develops an acute respiratory distress syndrome (Ards), in which the airspaces (cells) are full of fluids and inflammatory cells, and the native lining is dying," explains Dr. Kaminski. As you can see, there is very little oxygen available for breathing. "This situation requires mechanical ventilation."
How to treat the virus
The main problem with COVID-19, other than the fact that we currently have no vaccination against this one is that killing the virus is difficult, "because we do not have a specific medicine, only candidates Dr. Kaminski explains. As a result, approaches to the fight against the prevention of "easier in isolation and protection", as well as the protection of the lung ("helping pulmonary cells to recover") and inhibit inflammation, which is " Used frequently, and perhaps effective but complicated because some inflammation is necessary to fight against infection, "he explains.
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