SLEMAN, iNews.id – Lung specialist at Academic Hospital (RSA) UGM, Siswanto said, survivors Covid-19 can experience prolonged complaints after being infected with Covid-19 or what is often referred to as long Covid. This condition mainly occurs in patients with moderate, severe, critical and comorbid conditions.
“Besides that, there are also coincidental risks, for example when exposed to Covid along with being exposed to tuberculosis or other complications. Patients in the mild category may also occur,” said Siswanto in a written statement received by iNews.id Wednesday (27/10/2021).
For this reason, Covid-19 survivors need to monitor symptoms or complaints that occur up to 12 weeks from the onset or appearance of the first symptoms. Patients who receive treatment at the hospital are also advised to do a control one to two weeks after being discharged from the hospital. Furthermore, control was carried out again at the sixth or eighth week from onset.
“For those who go to the hospital, we usually calculate how many weeks they are currently in the position after the onset and when it is best to come back for control,” he said.
After 12 weeks, the patient can be confirmed to have recovered completely or not seen from the presence or absence of radiological symptoms or abnormalities or laboratory results.
For patients who are self-isolating at home, if after four weeks they still experience symptoms, both the same symptoms that appear for the first time or new symptoms, immediately consult a doctor.
Because many find patients who are self-isolating due to limited hospital care capacity, but after examination they are found to have moderate or severe degrees of severity.
“Don’t hesitate for the public to check if before they were exposed to Covid they didn’t have symptoms like this, but after Covid experienced symptoms, whatever it is, you should consult,” he explained.
Editor: Ainun Najib
