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Max Healthcare, one of the leading hospital chains, conducted a study and found that Covid-19 had been contracted by patients in almost 40% of the cases. The symptoms lasted for several months after acute Covid-19 illness.
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Though the second and more deadly wave of the pandemic is receding across the country, doctors are dealing with rising number of long Covid patients with symptoms like persistent body ache, low grade fever, lung fibrosis, pulmonary embolism and brain fogging in the outpatient departments (OPD) of hospitals.
Many have mental health issues including anxiety, depression, confusion and loss of memory, new onset of diabetes and hypertension, several doctors told ET.
Green fungus now a major threat after Covid recovery
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While mucormycosis affects sinuses, aspergillosis affects the lungs of a patient. It is not as severe a disease as mucormycosis, which requires debulking surgeries (surgical removal of affected tissue including in eye).
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After mucormycosis or black fungus, another fungal infection, aspergillosis or green fungus is emerging as a post-Covid complication in patients across the country.
Hospitals across states are increasingly reporting aspergillosis in patients who have recently recovered from long Covid-19 infection and have low immunity and comorbidities like diabetes.
“Patients who have recovered from long Covid are reporting back with breathlessness and high-grade fever, which is not going even with regular antibiotic treatment,” said Vivek Nangia, principal director (pulmonology) at Max Hospital Saket. “It is usually occurring in patients with diabetes and low immunity.”
The perils of Long Covid
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Coronavirus News: Cases of post-covid complications on rise in Delhi, many require oxygen support
As compared to fatigue, which was the most common post-COVID marker last year, most patients are now requiring Oxygen support in the wake of having recovered from COVID-19 during the second wave of COVID-19.
Publish Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2021 11:11 AM IST
New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The dip in COVID-19 cases has not resulted in a low patient load in the OPDs across many hospitals in Delhi. The hospitals in the national capital are witnessing a rise in the number of patients with serious post-Covid complications.
According to a media report, doctors are now seeing 25-30 patients with post-COVID complications in the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) with the symptoms far serious and worse than the first wave last year. As compared to fatigue, which was the most common post-COVID marker last year, most patients are now requiring Oxygen support in the wake of having recovered from COVID-19 du
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