Most people with severe coronaviruses can not get rid of these 2 symptoms
These two symptoms persist in some patients for weeks after leaving the hospital.
Leave the hospital after recovering from Covid-19 is certainly cause for the celebration. But a new study suggests that more than half ofPatients continue to suffer multiple symptoms Trauma caused by coronavirus sars-Cov2 for weeks after their discharge. The Italian study, published in theAMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL(Jama), verified with the recovery of COVID patients on average five weeks after their hospital discharge. What the researchers found was that most of them wereWork always with two particular symptoms:Extreme fatigue and laborious breathing.
The study followed 143 patients aged 19 to 84, who averaged two weeks in a Rome hospital; One fifth of them needed ventilation support. Five weeks after being returned home, more than half of the patients (53%)Reported fatigue and nearly half (43%) still livedshortness of breath.
The two most common symptoms of patients were joint pain (27%) and thoracic pain (nearly 22%), according to the study. Only 13% were totally free ofSymptoms of COVID, while 87% reported at least one persistent symptom.
But researchers are not necessarily surprised by the long recovery period. After the 2003 SARS epidemic, a study published inJAMA internal medicine found that some survivors surveyedFour years after always experienced recovery of chronic fatigue.
"The hard reality is that many patients continue to experimentPersistent symptoms for weeks and months After being diagnosed and "recover" from COVID-19, "Robert Glutter, MD, Emergency Medicine Doctor at New York Lenox Hill Hospital, saidIn good health. "While this little [Italian study] revealed that fatigue and shortness of breath were the two most common symptoms, many people also have many other persistent symptoms, including low-grade fevers, andNeurological symptoms such as numbness and tingling. "
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Some researchers believe that theHealth problems in progress may be due to chronic inflammation like theBody immune system continues to attack viral infection.
Gladter pointed out that people recovering from COVID-19 can also deal with problems ofDepression and anxiety month after the diagnosis, "make the disease not only physically but emotionally," he said. And to learn more about another COVID-19 silent symptom, checkThe "key symptom" of coronaviruses that you probably do not know.
