Survivors of acute Covid-19 may experience ongoing clinical symptoms.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Often survivors of Covid-19 infection have not fully recovered. Due to sequelae or long Covid-19 often affects the physical and mental conditions of survivors.
Chairman of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Association (Perdosri) Tirza Z Tamin explained, survivors of acute Covid-19 infection can experience ongoing clinical symptoms that can last several weeks, months, or even longer.
“After the Covid-19 infection occurs, then there are long Covid-19 which affects physical and mental conditions,” he said during the BNPB virtual conference, Thursday (31/3/2022).
In fact, his side noted the consequences long Covid-19 is shortness of breath, or other symptoms such as cognitive impairment. In addition, he mentioned, long Covid-19 can affect the respiratory system, heart failure, endocrine system, psychiatric system, to the ecological system.
“Quality of life can also decrease due to fatigue, sleep disturbances, and mental health,” said Tirza.
Regarding people who are infected with Covid-19 without symptoms and then recover, they can experience long What kind of Covid-19, Tirza said, depends on the body’s immunity. He explained, someone who is infected with Covid-19, then his immune system will decrease.
He continued, symptom post Covid-19 can cause fatigue or problems such as decreased respiration, chest pain, cough, fever, runny nose, liver and kidney disorders. The problem is added when the survivor has comorbidities, both diabetes mellitus, hypertension, then of course this will worsen the condition in the future.
“So, we have to know what the problem is, for example is it in the brain or the lungs that are affected? It depends on the functional diagnosis where the patient is.” post Covid-19,” he said.
Therefore, Tirza continued, many actions must be taken to prevent problems due to Covid-19. These include providing Covid-19 vaccinations including booster vaccines (booster). Then people who have been vaccinated if later infected with Covid-19 will reduce the process of symptoms. Then those who have comorbidities reduce the impact of having comorbidities.
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