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This Friday, August 5, 2022, a study published by the scientific journal The Lancet affirms that one in eight people who contracted the Covid-19 virus retained symptoms over the long term. A theory that revives the debate on the long Covid.
For 3 years, the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged us into health chaos. Between asymptomatic people and those who retain sequelae, no one is in the same boat. A Dutch study revealed by the scientific journal The Lancet this Friday, August 5, 2022 would give new information on the symptoms of Covid in the long term. Not less one in eight people, or 12.7% of the population infected with Sars-CoV-2 would show symptoms three to five months after contracting the virus. What are the health risks? We know more!
Post-Covid symptoms that persist
Whatever the variant, many are those who have been victims of the Covid. While a lucky few have survived virus-related symptoms, others have signed up for a long-term flu condition. This is proven by this new study published by The Lancet this Friday, August 5, 2022. Among these persistent symptoms, patients with long Covid would suffer “abdominal pain, breathing difficulties and painmuscle pain, ageusia or anosmia (loss of taste or smell, editor’s note), tingling, discomfort in the throat, hot or cold flushes, heaviness in the arms or legs as well as a general tiredness“. Symptoms that support the risks of long Covid on the health of vulnerable people in particular.
Understanding #longCOVID—a challenge to which the whole health community must rise.
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— The Lancet (@TheLancet) August 31, 2021
Long Covid: health consequences?
Coronavirus infection can have serious health consequences for some patients. No one is immune to contracting a long Covid with persistent symptoms, whether in patients who have suffered from a severe form or those who have contracted a moderate form. “Those who come to consult for the long Covid are active, young, without particular risk factors. Women aged 40 to 60, men aged 30 to 50“, explains Dr Nicolas Barizien, head of the functional rehabilitation department at the Foch hospital in charge of the program. Rehab Covid 2020.
If some scientists blamed these symptoms psychosomatic disorders, new studies prove the opposite. More worrying, the long Covid would be responsible for mental disorders, especially in children and adolescents. Brain and nervous system, heart and blood vessels, lungs, kidneys, digestive system, eyes… These long-lasting symptoms can have consequences and affect many organs.