Those who had had coronavirus began to massively complain of a strange complication: the body stopped perceiving cigarettes and alcohol. Many people note that after drinking a small glass, they now suffer from a severe hangover for several days. Jokes about the fact that the pandemic has finally solved one of Russia’s troubles, of course, have the right to life, but doctors consider this symptom very alarming, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets.
“Now I don’t take alcohol at all. No. The alcoholic drink was the indicator by which I understood for sure that I had “the same”. It was crap. Then one day she stopped smelling. And immediately a crazy thought came to my mind: “I wonder how it is to drink strong, when there is no taste or smell?” And immediately, as I thought, the body almost jumped straight away from the bottle. I was already taken aback. Well, I think I’ll get better – and then! I got better. But the body does not want to, it turns away itself. No, I was not addicted, did not suffer from alcoholism. But I drank. And then suddenly “don’t” – that’s all. And how to celebrate the New Year now? ” – asks “Pavel” anxiously in the group “Atypical postcovid” on Facebook. And he is not alone. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who have received a new syndrome of complete alcohol aversion after an illness. Some of the patients report that alcohol aversion lasted three months, some that more than six months. “This is a new method of treating alcoholism, it must be patented!” – the patients joke sadly. Those who, against the background of such rejection, nevertheless decide to drink, face very strange consequences. “We had a holiday, I drank an incomplete glass, and then immediately vomited. It was bad for four days, was haunted by a terrible hangover, with panic attacks, I didn’t even know before that this happens, ”the user“ Anna ”shares in the group“ Atypical post-covid ”. Many, along with alcohol, “turned away” from coffee, and others – from chocolate, the newspaper notes. The patients themselves make different assumptions about why they have such reactions. Someone thinks that the virus has deprived the necessary enzymes for the breakdown of alcohol, and someone else – that the receptors in the brain that respond to the production of dopamine have suffered.
The well-known doctor, chairman of the board of the Moscow City Scientific Society of Physicians, Professor Pavel Vorobyov, who today is actively engaged in post-covid disease, notes that this is not the most serious consequence of the new coronavirus infection. “But during an illness, the brain is damaged, this leads to the fact that a person’s reactions change, including the attitude to pleasure. Many describe a decrease in libido, sexual function. I can’t say about dopamine receptors, it requires checks, but the fact that such symptoms are present in people is a fact. But we also have enough other problems with the postcovid, for example, with serious mental disorders in a number of patients, ”Vorobiev notes.
As the famous expert in toxicology and pharmacology, pathologist Alexander Ediger jokes, COVID-19 fulfilled the age-old dream of progressive mankind, especially doctors, to change addictive behavior or craving for alcohol, coffee and tea (drinks containing caffeine). “But jokes aside, there are three target organs that reflect the most pronounced and lasting consequences of the COVID-19 disease: the central nervous system, liver and pancreas. And if the perception of alcohol, coffee, tea, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves has changed, this is a rather serious damage to the nervous system, and in the case of alcohol – also extremely complex lesions of the liver and pancreas. Especially if after drinking alcohol for several days the state of not digesting and disintegrating alcohol, and sometimes intolerance of its smell, remains for several days, ”the specialist says.
“This is a very bad sign, indicating that the most powerful enzyme systems of the liver and pancreas have stopped working, which means that the patient will have to be monitored for a long time. We observe how the disease takes away individual organs: someone is affected by the central nervous system, someone has immunodeficiency, someone has thromboembolism. And we still have a long time to unravel the consequences of COVID-19, ”the doctor concludes.
Very soon volumes of scientific papers will be written about covid, but the mysteries of the new virus will not diminish from this.
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