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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The corona virus, also known as Covid-19, leaves long-term sequelae for patients who have recovered. This symptom, known as Long Covid-19, can be characterized by various symptoms ranging from fatigue to depression.
“We used to know about post-covid syndrome, which is an old term, along with its development by the WHO called Long covid. Conditions, symptoms, it seems that patients recover from covid-19 based on the results of negative swabs,” said the Head of the Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine of the Friendship Hospital of FKUI, Dr. Agus. Dwi Susanto SpP (K) in Jakarta, Thursday (03/12/2020).
“Symptoms can appear for weeks, months, persist. Long-term symptoms of Covid-19 vary, symptoms of chronic fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitations, joint pain, muscle pain and post-Covid-19 depression,” he added.
Long Covid, he continued, is not a virus that remains in a person’s body after being exposed to Covid-19. Long Covid occurs as a result of a painful process that then causes anatomical abnormalities.
“For example, prolonged covid is often found, the lungs have stiffness in the lung tissue, persists for 2-3 months. Causes oxygen not to enter. Heavy breathing, some patients, some report a 20-30% decrease in lung function, as a result, the patient has difficulty breathing. ” he said again.
According to him, anyone can experience a prolonged covid. However, there are several groups that are at high risk of suffering from this, for example, patients who already have comorbidities, the elderly or with chronic potential, for example, people who smoke.
“Some are young, even if there is no comorbid long covid,” he added.
He explained that the symptoms of prolonged covid in the lungs depend on the symptoms suffered by the Covid. If Covid-19 is mild, prolonged covid does not usually occur. However, for moderate Covid-19 symptoms, critical weight and prolonged covid will generally occur.
Still, he said that in Indonesia, more investigations related to this long-running covid should be conducted. Because until now, in Indonesia there has been no investigation related to this long covid. He also explained that prolonged covid appeared in patients with moderate, severe to critical symptoms and so far there have been no reports for patients with OTG.
So what about vaccines, can they prevent prolonged covid?
“Vaccines prevent someone from getting infected, in which the concept is that someone has immunity. Of course, if they are not infected, there will be no covid for a long time. But if that person gets infected, they can still be for a long time. It seems. long covid ”, he concluded.
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