Covid-19 has left its mark on many aspects of society. There are people who have managed to pass it without problems for their Healthwhile there are others that when they do physical exerciseor not, they feel some kind of sequel on a physical level and mental and they have a hard time adjusting to their new normal. Is it your case? Well, we are going to tell you what the specific effects of playing sports with persistent Covid are.
Two years after the arrival of the coronavirusscience professionals are still looking for answers to many health questions, as is the case here.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has detailed during the month of March that after a decrease in Covid cases, there was a new increase.
Specifically, we are talking about the week from March 7 to 13, 2022, which registered an increase in the number of new positive weekly by 8% compared to the previous week.
What is persistent Covid?
Normally, and at this point with the standard inclusion of various types of vaccinesall of them effective against coronavirusthose who suffer from Covid usually have symptom mild or a disease moderate.
The World Health Organization (WHO) details that 10-15% of people evolve to a serious illness; while 5% take a more critical tone.
The normal thing is to get out of the virus, but there are many cases in which the persistent covidthat is, when after having passed the virusthere are still side effects.
Experts agree in pointing out that there is no treatments recognized for these specific sequelae by Covid, but that the exercise can break the vicious cycle of inflammation.
At Pennington Biomedical Research Centerin the United States, prolonged Covid has been determined to cause depression and increases the levels of Blood glucose.
So people are at higher risk of developing the diabetic cetoacidosisa life-threatening condition common in those with Diabetes type 1.
Is it useful to do physical exercise to alleviate the effects of persistent Covid?
Now, it is time to analyze if the inflammation that we were talking about before can be lowered by means of a methodology from training disciplined and effective.
The health workers point out that the physical activity is elementary for Healthy lifeand what is sought is to break the chain reaction of the inflammation.
In some way, by breaking this situation we also break with the possibility that the glucose is too high, and avoid the risk of being able to suffer type 2 diabetes.
It is not necessary to perform a type of physical exercise specifically, but we must be able to move for a certain time to send that healthy message to our body.
Little by little, and depending on how our organismwe can recover the physical tone that we had before suffering the Covid. Always cautious.