/View.info/ Cases of diabetic coma are becoming more frequent
Hospitals remain full, young people go directly to intensive care
Adopted children are decreasing
Doctors in our country warn of an increase in severe cases of COVID as a result of diabetes that appeared after the infection. Usually, this vicious cycle is seen in people who were predisposed to developing diabetes even before the coronavirus.
“It is about latent diabetes, the symptoms of which people did not show before the infection, but then they suddenly worsen. We catch a lot that have very high blood sugar readings, and that
leads to more severe
disabilities
and deterioration of the condition”, the director of “Pirogov” Prof. Asen Baltov explained to “24 chasa”.
In the worst case scenario, the disease can also lead to a diabetic coma, such cases have already been registered in our country in patients with COVID.
High blood sugar levels are not always definitively linked to diabetes. In some people, this may be due to stress as a result of the body’s fight against the infection or some of the drugs used to treat it. In these patients, high blood sugar levels return to normal after treatment for the coronavirus is completed. In other cases, however, this can lead precisely to the unlocking of diabetes and from a momentary condition it becomes permanent.
A study of 47,000 patients in the UK who were admitted to hospital for coronavirus and followed for 7 months after discharge found that 5% developed both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Scientists are also considering the possibility that the coronavirus could lead to
new type of diabetes
damaging
directly
pancreas
Another novelty of the coronavirus, which is impressing doctors at the moment, is that in people arriving at the hospital, a more serious cough is manifested, which is deep, irritating and persistent and leads to mechanical complications of the small blood vessels – the alveoli, he said also Prof. Baltov.
Despite the slight drop in new cases in recent days, the epidemic situation in the country remains serious. Most of the hospitals are still full. The trend of young people needing treatment continues – from 20 to 50 years old. On Tuesday, a 22-year-old girl was admitted to “Pirogov”. There are 435 patients. Two of them are intubated and another 20 are on oxygen therapy but not intubated. It was not uncommon for a patient to be intubated immediately after being admitted to the hospital.
“One of the reasons for this is the untimely seeking of medical help. Every day people come in very serious condition. That’s why I call on those suffering from shortness of breath to immediately seek a doctor,” virologist Prof. Radka Argirova told Nova TV.
10,355 were the total hospitalized on Wednesday, of which 755 in intensive care units. The number of registered new infections again exceeded 4000. We do not have a decline, but moments
A positive trend is beginning to be reported in children reaching the hospital because of the coronavirus. With 7 accepted last week in “Pirogov” there are now 2, said Prof. Asen Baltov. However, the number of outpatients remains high, i.e. they are sick, but their condition allows treatment at home.
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