They may suffer the phenomenon of "long-term Covid"

Will the lives of those recovering from "Corona" return to what it was?

Post-Covid syndrome also appears in people who have contracted the disease and whose treatment did not require a hospital stay.

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One of the physiotherapists says that it started with a patient who is treating them with a feeling of dizziness and ataxia, and after three quarters of the year, the doctors treating this patient, in the German city of Ingolstadt, felt overjoyed, because it became possible for their patient to speak again, and enter To the clinic on his feet.

The man obtained assurances from his attending physician, chief neurologist, Thomas Veverkorn, that he would one day be able to return to his passion for playing tennis, but not to the same level.

The patient (51 years), who did not want to be named, suffers from "Guillain-Barré syndrome", which is a disorder that causes the body's immune system to attack the nerves, which experts currently believe may be due to infection with the Corona virus in cases Rare.

This rare immune disease causes inflammation, and sometimes damage, in the covering layer of nerve fibers. Consequently, nerves cannot transmit nerve signals to the brain, which leads to muscle weakness, and a feeling of numbness in the extremities, and it may even amount to paralysis.

Although he was fully conscious most of the time, the man was unable to move for five weeks.

"This causes a big impact on a person's life, as he is unable to return to his daily life," he explains.

Even if we exclude such acute cases, many of those infected with the "Covid-19" disease resulting from infection with the emerging corona virus, feel the effects of their disease after a long period of being officially considered recovered.

A study of 143 patients in Italy revealed that 87% of those infected continued to suffer at least one symptom, or many symptoms of "Covid-19", despite the passage of 60 days after the first symptoms of infection appeared on them.

These symptoms included a feeling of fatigue, in 53% of the patients, and difficulty breathing in 43% of them, in addition to suffering from muscle and chest pain, coughing, and a loss of smell.

Other studies have reached similar results.

This phenomenon has been described as "long-term Covid" or "post-Covid syndrome", and it also appears in people who have contracted the disease and whose treatment did not require their stay in the hospital.

Some complain about feeling dizzy, while others struggle to focus, it may be related to a student who is no longer able to finish writing her study thesis, or an engineer who now forgot his personal identification code, or a diver whose lungs were severely damaged, to the point that he still feels like Under water pressure.

There are now groups concerned with providing self-help for such a new group of victims of the Corona epidemic.

Through these groups, those affected are mainly encouraged to talk about their experiences, support each other and exchange information, says Karl Baumann, who founded such a group in Regensburg, in southeast Germany.

"There is a huge wave approaching our health care system," says the 52-year-old businessman, who no longer knows when he will be able to return to work fully, or whether this will happen in the first place.

Baumann contracted the disease last March.

His condition necessitated that he be placed on devices to save his life, and he suffered a stroke while in a coma, and miraculously survived.

His illness affected his lungs, heart, one of his kidneys, and his liver, and he still has not fully recovered yet.

However, the effects of his illness are not only physical.

"One has to get through the trauma," says Bauman.

Although his wife has a mild case of "Covid-19", she also suffers from fatigue and lack of focus.

According to an American research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it is possible for the emerging corona virus to affect its carrier in three stages.

Weeks after the onset of an acute infection, people can develop severe infections, most likely due to the overactive immune response that affects organs that were not affected by the first stage of the disease, such as the heart or kidneys.

Moreover, "cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and psychological manifestations may follow," according to the report prepared by Amish Talwar, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Concerns have already been raised that Covid-19 disease could increase the risk of developing dementia or Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson's disease) later in a recovered person's life.

Many sufferers feel the effects of their illness long after they have been officially considered recovered.

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