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As a doctor, I know the coronavirus,COVID-19 [Feminine, proved to be a disguise master. While some people can have it and do not know any idea that they are infected, others are found in the intensive care unit, unable to breathe and on a fan because the virus targets the lungs. So, what should we look at? What are the signs that our lung function deteriorates?

Here are some points of relevance - however, if you are concerned about your clinical state, I urge you to seek professional help earlier than later because all respiratory infections can worsen with scary speed. You have to get help quickly before things happen too far. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.

If you are unlucky enough to become infected by Covid-19, the episode can last two weeks in light cases, three to six weeks in severe or critical cases. The severity of CIVID-19 infection has been divided into 5 groups:

1. Asymptomatic
2. Light disease
3. Moderate disease
4. Serious illness
5. Critical-Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (Ards)

To experienceWuhanWhen the origin of the virus showed 81% of CIVID-19 patients had a light disease, 14% of these infected persons developed severe pneumonia and about 5% need critical care.

When we consider that if the lungs fail, we are particularly interested in people who pass mild and moderate, serious or critical illness. A moderate light disease can be managed at home. People with serious or critical illnesses need hospitalization.

Here are 5 symptoms / clinical signs to search, which will help decide whether your infection passes moderate gravity to criticism, and if so, needs urgent help.

Up to82%Patients infected with COVID-19 have a cough. This is usually dry and irritating. The experts describe the cough in the early stages of the disease as cough episodes that can last up to one hour and with 3 or multiple cough fights in 24 hours.

The cough is due to inflammation in your respiratory tract. A cough is a reflex designed to protect your body from invasion with foreign particles such as bacteria and viruses. If your lungs are inflamed, a cough also expels mucus and cell debris.

In a way, a cough is a good thing! However, too much cough is exhausting, it further interrupts the supply of oxygen to your lungs and perhaps, although rare causes serious problems such as fractured ribs, or even small hemorrhages in the brain.

If your cough is getting worse, this can be a warning sign that infection progresses to cause more serious and full wife pneumonia.

Shortness of breath has been reported by 31% of Wuhan's initial experience. It is very scary not to breathe. The degree of breathlessness is probably the most important clinical indicator of the severity of your condition.

• Respiratory rate - Normally adultsto breathein and on 12-18 times per minute.

More than 20 respirations per minute represent the breathing called Tachypne faster.

• The inability to breathe interferes with normal daily activities - as the COVID-19 infection progresses, you can feel more out of breath. If it starts to interfere with daily activities, for example, you can not finish a sentence without breathless, or it's hard to eat or drink, it's a bad sign. In addition, you can also find it's more difficult and harder to walk, manage stairs or do your daily activities.
• Suffer from breathing - If you look at someone with serious breathing difficulties, you'll notice them using theirneck musclesDraw the chest and suck the air in the lungs and sometimes inflaming the nostrils. People suffering from severe breathing difficulties often complain that their breast, belly or back, because of the mechanical strain of breathing.

If you have these clinical signs, you need to get urgent medical assistance because they are Covid-19 signs has gone from a moderate to a serious infection.

Fatigue has been one of the most common symptoms reported from the first VVID-19 experience in China and has been reported in about 70% of patients. It is normal to feel tired when you are sick. However, if fatigue becomes total fatigue, so that you can not handle a shower, do not want to get up or dress up, lose your appetite or start not wanting to drink, these are signs of exhaustion.

This extreme fatigue is due to a high viral load in your body. Your body generates a huge immune response. This then causes a fever, perspiration, coughing and can lead to dehydration. Fatigue is also due to the physical effort to try to breathe.

As fatigue worsens, you can become insufficient, unable to watch TV or focus or communicate effectively.

Other medical complications can also occur, including possible secondary bacterial infection. In the most critical cases, there may be an overwhelming infection with sepsis and septic shock.

If your fatigue progresses and becomes extreme, it is a sign that the coronavirus infection becomes more and more serious, and your pneumonia worsens. You must search for urgent help.

If your lips, your fingers and your toes are blue, it's called Cyanosis - it's a serious pulmonary function and you need to get urgent medical help.

When you breathe, your lungs deliver oxygen to the heart and the rest of the body. The lungs are also excreted of carbon dioxide, in the air you breathe.

When you have severe pneumonia, for example with COVID-19 infection, your body may lack oxygen and can not get rid of carbon dioxide.

The well oxygenated blood is a cherry red color, giving your skin a beautiful reddish / pink hue. However, the deoxygenated blood has a darker red color and when light reflects the skin, it now appears a dark navy blue. This bluish tint is a view of the lips and on the fingertips and toes, and in the nail beds.

This is not considered a major symptom of Covid-19, however, the pneumonia of any cause can cause chest pain.

• If pneumonia affects the lung of lung tissue - the pleura - it can cause a pleurious. Pleitic chest pain is a typical pain in the chest when you breathe. It is sometimes felt also in the abdomen, neck or shoulder. Pneumonia can also cause liquids to accumulate in the chest - it's called an effusion.
• The cough and the content of the intercostal muscles (between the ribs) can cause pain. Severe cough can cause a fractured coast or pneumothorax - a collapse of the lung.
• Patients report the tightening of the chest with COVID-19-which may be due to bronchospasm, particularly in people known as asthmatic or having a trend towards respiratory infection.

COVID-19 pneumonia presents an additional threat to people who already have underlying medical conditions:

• Cardiovascular disease - a serious COVID-19 infection increases the tension on your heart because it beats stronger and faster because of the infection to help oxygenation, and upset by dehydration and the growing resistance to try to pump blood in sick lung tissue. This increases the probability of angina and / or a heart attack.
• Diabetes - Diabetic control is always disturbed in severe acute infection and becomes difficult to manage.
• Chronic Respiratory Disease - Underlying Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Track Disease, often smoking, means that the respiratory tract are already damaged and bites of mucus and debris.
• Hypertension - High blood pressure is correlated with cardiovascular disease and turns on the heart.

Complications may arise from Covid-19 exacerbated by one of these conditions. For example, a heart attack, secondary bacterial pneumonia or lung emboles (blood clot). All these elements can cause chest pain - although they can also be silent.

If you get a chest degradation, it would suggest that your COVID-19 becomes more and more serious and you need urgent medical attention.

If you think you have a COVID-19 infection, the board is to stay at home. However, it is a serious viral infection that causes pneumonia. If you feel that your condition deteriorates, you must ask for help.

It can be difficult to judge how much your lungs are good or hard to deal with a Covid-19 infection. Do not worry about wasting person's time! The lung function can deteriorate quickly and it is always better to act earlier than later. If you can identify yourself with one of the five symptoms listed here, it's time to call your doctor.And to cross this pandemic without catching coronavirus, do not miss this essential list:Most coovidants did this before getting sick.

Dr. Deborah Lee is a medical writerDr. Fox Online Pharmacy.