Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, a total of 13,374,116 people in Spain have been infected by Covid-19, according to the latest data offered by the Ministry of Health. Of them, 113,279 people died and although most have managed to overcome the disease, many still feel the consequences.
This is what is known as persistent or prolonged Covid, which according to the World Health Organization (WHO) defines it as “the condition that occurs in individuals with a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, generally three months after onset, with symptoms lasting at least two months and it cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. ”In addition, according to their data, 17 million people in the 53 member states of the European region suffer from persistent Covid.
And the Spanish Society of General and Family Physicians (SEMG), explains that it is a disease derived from the coronavirus that about a 15% of adult patients who have had the diseaseand between 5% and 10% of children.
What are the symptoms of persistent Covid?
From the Mayo Clinic they report the main symptoms of persistent Covid:
- Fatigue
- Symptoms that get worse after doing this physical or mental exertion
- Fever
- Difficult breathing
- Shortness of breath and cough
- Difficulty think or concentrate
- Headache
- Problems to sleep
- dizziness when you get up
- Feeling of bites
- Loss of smell or taste
- depression or anxiety
- Ache joint or muscle
- Chest pain
- heartbeat rapid or palpitations
- Diarrhea
- Stomach ache
- clots
- problems of the blood vessels (vascular)
- pulmonary embolism
- Rash
- Changes in the menstrual cycle
Why is persistent Covid generated?
The Mayo Clinic relates the risk of suffering from persistent Covid disease be related to organ damage. That is, “people who have had severe Covid could have damage to the heart, kidneys, skin and brain. There might as well be inflammation and immune system problems.
And while it’s unknown how long these effects might last, “they could lead to the development of new conditions, such as diabetes or diseases of the nervous system or heart“. In addition, they point out that” the people who had severe symptoms of COVID-19 they usually require treatment intensive care unit of a hospital. This can lead to extreme weakness and PTSD, which is a triggered a mental illness from a terrifying event “.
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How long do persistent symptoms of Covid last?
The World Health Organization has produced a model study carried out by the center of the Washington University School of Medicine and presented today in Tel Aviv which states that persistent covid has “a duration of symptoms for at least three months in 2020 and 2021“.
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