With coronavirus, a variety of combinations of symptoms and organ damage can occur. The immunologist-allergist Vladimir Bolibok told about this on Saturday, December 19, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
According to the doctor, some patients have a fever and a stomach ache, others tolerate the disease without a fever, but they can suffocate.
“And there are cases when there is no temperature or shortness of breath, but a person experiences dizziness due to blood clots. For some, coronary heart disease is aggravated by blood clots in the heart. Fatty liver hepatosis, fatty degeneration of the pancreas may develop. When COVID begins, all diseases are aggravated, ”he said.
The specialist also warns that coronavirus infection can have a negative impact on reproductive function in men and women. As the immunologist clarified, it is not yet known how the infection will affect the offspring. The coronavirus, Bolibok notes, is primarily an inflammation of the blood vessels: infectious vasculitis.
He distinguishes two stages of the disease: in the form of ARVI and viremia, when the infection enters the lymph and blood. Symptoms appear depending on where the donkey pathogen is. On the fifth to eighth day, the production of antibodies begins, which begin to attack the virus in the choroid, provoking an inflammatory process.
The lungs are most often affected, since there is a large capillary network, the doctor explained. However, inflammation can go anywhere, including in the tissues of the brain, pancreas, intestines, and kidneys.
Bolibok strongly advises not to start the process and contact specialists in a timely manner.
On December 2, the British Heart Foundation noted that among the symptoms of protracted COVID-19, doctors named shortness of breath, anxiety and depression, heart palpitations, pain in the chest, muscles and joints, as well as an inability to think clearly or concentrate.
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