Coronavirus: Any Sequela to Recovered COVID-19 Patient?
The deaths of Coronavirus in the world is a big number, and the death rate is about 6.9%. The good is the recovered number is much more, and the recovered rate is more than 25%. Since there were many recovered cases which were tested Positive again in few days later after recovered. People may have questions if there is any sequela of Coronavirus to those recovered cases? Here just collect some opinions from medical experts.
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Mild Coronaviurs Patient
Generally for those mild patient, there is no sequela left in their body after recovered, which means they still have a good and healthy body as before. It is good to every one.
Critically Patient
Statistics of recovered critically coronavirus patient, the common possible sequela is Pulmonary Fibrosis in a specific time. Since the lung has a strong self-healing function, for some recovered patient, the Pulmonary Fibrosis could be self-healed and disappear in a short term.
But for some extremely critically patient, it might need much long time to heal the Pulmonary fibers. Because those patient were injured by coronaviurs for a long time, and stayed to be treated by doctor for long as well, the pulmonary fibrosis is more serious than the others.
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Some other experts found that some recovered persons had short of breath when they moved at a faster pace, failing to exercise as usual, or even unable to return to their previous work. It is estimated that “the lung function is not less than half, but 20% to 30%".
Coronavirus could cause fibrosis of the lungs, which requires medical treatment to help the self-healing process. It was said that the healed pulmonary fibrosis would leave some scar in the lung which may hinder breathing.
In a word, Coronavirus is a quite new virus to every one, including all experts, and how it will impact the body in a long term after recovered is waiting further observation, study and research.
A suggestions for those recovered patient is to do more exercise, such as swimming and running which could enhance the lung functions.