Happy hypoxia, the sneaky new way Covid-19 fools patients. What is it and how does it manifest?



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“Happy hypoxia” is an increasingly common symptom among Covid-19 patients, characterized by a state of euphoria in patients, despite having a very low oxygen saturation, even up to 65%.

The phrase associates two apparently contradictory words in English, “happy” and “hypoxia” (hypoxia, shortness of breath).

Due to this well-being, the patient does not even realize the severity of his condition. Dr. Beatrice Mahler noted, on Digi24, that she encounters these types of patients every day who are at risk of reaching intensive care due to their deteriorating health.

“We have patients every day who come up with this phenomenon of silent hypoxia, which is an extremely cunning form of respiratory failure in coronavirus patients and they do not perceive.

The body’s alarm system, when the oxygen concentration falls, does not send signals to the brain or about the seriousness of the body situation.

Participate in this state and decrease the level of carbon dioxide, which can create a state of euphoria.

Certainly, there are multiple effects that Covid-19 can have on the body to mask some of the serious symptoms.

We also notice an extremely strange adaptation of high or very low glycemic values.

There are patients who tolerate blood glucose very well at 30, which I did not see before. With a blood glucose level of 50, the patient slipped into a coma. Or they are patients with respiratory failure, but with blood glucose levels of almost 1,000, conscious and present.

There are paradoxes of this exhausted disease, “explained Mahler.

Publisher: Georgiana Marina

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