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The Long-Term Health Impacts Of Being Infected With The Coronavirus

by NYUCC | Sat Dec 26 2020 | Blog

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Covid-19 has altered our lifestyles drastically. However, with its ever-increasing fear among people, a fact has been introduced which states that Covid-19 symptoms can persist even for months. The coronavirus can damage the heart, brain, and lungs that results in the risk of long-term health problems.

An Overview 

It has been observed that most of the people who had coronavirus disease have recovered completely within a short time that is within a few weeks. But there are some people who had serious symptoms of the disease continuing to experience the symptoms even after their initial recovery. Those people who are experiencing the symptoms even after their recovery are usually termed as long haulers and in medical terms, it is known as a post-covid-19 syndrome or long covid-19. 

The expert doctors have noticed that people having serious medical conditions and those who are older in age are more prone to experience the post-covid-19 syndrome. However, at very rare times even young people who have been seriously weak for weeks to months after the infection can catch the post-covid-19 symptom very easily. 

Know The Symptoms

When we talk about the symptoms of the Covid-19 syndrome then it includes fatigue, shortness of breath, joint pain, chest pain, and cough. But the long term signs, as well as symptoms of the disease, include muscle pain or headache, loss of smell, memory concentration for sleep problems, rash hair loss, and fast or pounding heartbeat. 

Major Organ Damage

Even though covid-19 is a disease that affects the lungs first but it also needs to be considered that there are still other organs that may get damaged. However, organ damage may increase the risk of long-term health problems. So let’s have a look at the organs that make it affected by covid-19.

Lungs 

The type of pneumonia that is connected with covid-19 causes long-standing damage to the small air sacs in the lungs and this results in scarring of tissue leading to long-term breathing problems.

Brain 

It is the major organ in our body that needs to be taken care of primarily because it is such an organ that controls our body actions. Covid-19 can cause strokes and Guillain Barre syndrome that causes temporary paralysis. Additionally, covid-19 may increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease as well. 

Heart

The imaging tests taken after a few months of a patient’s recovery from covid-19 have displayed that the disease can have lasting damage to the heart muscles even in those people who have experienced very mild covid-19 symptoms. However, all this can increase the risk of heart failure along with bringing other heart complications. 

Not least but the Covid-19 disease also interferes with the problems related to mood and fatigue. Research has shown that people having severe symptoms of covid-19 often get treated in intensive care units along with some mechanical assistance such as ventilators. All this can make a person develop a post-traumatic stress syndrome letter along with depression and anxiety. 

If you are searching for the best covid-19 testing in queens New York then NYUCC would be the top covid-19 testing center you could approach. However, you can find the best covid-19 testing in Floral Park as well.

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