Damascus-Sana
As the Corona virus continues to spread widely around the world, studies and scientific research continue to discover its mysteries, especially with a complaint by a number of Corona recoverers constantly feeling a number of symptoms even after recovery, which prompted researchers to more studies under the broad heading “Why do Corona symptoms persist in some Patients for more than a month ”.
As an explanation, the chest disease specialist Dr. Abd al-Rahman Dhakak said in a statement to the SANA delegate that through clinical observations on patients returning to hospitals and clinics, side effects were observed by infection with the Coronavirus after recovery in a good number of them represented by the constant feeling of shortness of breath as a result of the pulmonary infiltrates that cause With the virus and it appears in three types: “in the form of frosted glass and are usually light”, “macular” and “fibrotic”.
Dr. Dhakak pointed out that although the CT scan of the person who recovered from Corona shows that the lung function is normal, the feeling of shortness of breath remains in him, indicating that this is mainly due to psychological reasons or because the person is mainly an asthmatic patient or has hypersensitivity to the airways and such Cases can be continued treatment at the doctor.
According to Dr. Dhakak, a large number of recovered people suffer from what is known as "chronic fatigue syndrome" that lasts for several months, which is a feeling of general fatigue, inability to sleep, muscle pain and even lack of focus, indicating that this is very similar to the interceptor syndrome that occurs as a result of encephalitis or Bone marrow.
Among the symptoms that continue even after recovery from Corona, according to Dr. Dakkak, is the feeling of depression and cough, and it may be an annoying cough because it is dry and persistent, known as “post-viral cough,” and it is not useful with him to take antitussives and expectorants. Therefore, we recommend taking topical bronchodilators, as we noticed an improvement in Most of the patients.
On the loss of the sense of smell and taste even after recovery from the virus, Dr. Dhakak explained that the loss of these two senses is a symptom of clinical symptoms that we find in 50 percent of people with corona, and sometimes it is the main symptom without any other symptoms, which is an indication that the infection with corona is of a mild degree indicating that the period The temporal loss of the two senses varies from person to person and can be restored by inhaling strong scents to stimulate the mucous membranes responsible for the sense of smell.
According to a number of research studies, a number of Corona patients can develop pulmonary fibrosis "a change in the lung tissue" as a result of severe lung infiltration, and in this field Dr. Dakkak confirms that severe infection with the virus can lead to lung fibrosis and this is diagnosed by conducting lung function tests and a challenge of capacity Lung that reaches more than 80% in healthy people, while it is less than that in the presence of pulmonary fibrosis.
Dr. Dakkak shows that pulmonary fibrosis can also be diagnosed by performing a bronchoscopy and taking a biopsy of the lung tissue to determine the type of diseases present in these lung infiltrates and the type of fibrosis to find out the extent of its response to treatment, indicating that the treatment currently used for such cases is a type of cortisone or anti-fibrosis and through Clinical observations locally, the percentage of Corona patients who report with pulmonary fibrosis ranges between 30 and 40 percent.
In response to the saying "children are a silent carrier of the Corona virus", Dr. Dhakak said that in general, few HIV infections were recorded in the world among children, but it was observed that children under the age of ten with the virus had a high amount of virus without symptoms or with mild symptoms. Compared with other age groups, indicating that this can be explained based on the Italian study, which concluded that "children have high cellular immunity, that is, they have great antibodies to viruses, so it is possible that their existing immunity will recognize all viruses and eliminate them."
Regarding the most common symptoms that appear in children in the event of infection, Dr. Dhakak indicated that it is heat and coughing, and respiratory slips may appear.
Rama Rashidi
