- Coronavirus has affected a lot of people irrespective of age and created unimaginable damage.
- It affects people causing various kinds of serious damages such as respiratory illness, blood clots, multi-system organ failure, overreaction of children’s immune systems, covid toes etc.
- Earlier, coronavirus was only related to respiratory illness and now the symptoms have changed as a result, the doctors have been baffled.
A recently published article in CNN written by Maggie Fox deals with the variety of health issues the coronavirus creates within a patient. It ranges from respiratory illness to blood clot. As a result, the the doctors are baffled and unable to quickly treat a patient set him right. The following sections would deal with the various kinds of adverse health impact the coronavirus has made on people.
Coronavirus can cause bloodclot
It’s an extremely dangerous development that can kill between 20% and 50% of patients, Wengerter said. “It just doesn’t usually happen in a 38-year-old,” he told CNN.
Doctors treating coronavirus patients are seeing a range of odd and frightening syndromes, including blood clots of all sizes throughout the body, kidney failure, heart inflammation and immune complications.
“One thing that is both curious and evolving and frustrating is that this disease is manifesting itself in so many different ways,” said Dr. Scott Brakenridge, an assistant professor on the acute care surgery team at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Multi-system organ failure
While the new coronavirus is designated as a respiratory virus, it’s clear that it is affecting some people throughout their bodies. The most obvious symptoms of infection are classic respiratory symptoms: fever, pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
But the virus also seems to attack some organs directly. One of the most troubling is its assault on the lining of the blood vessels, which in turn causes unnatural blood clotting.
“It seems like Covid, the virus, is creating a local inflammatory response that’s leading to some of these thrombotic events,” Wengerter said. “This is happening because of the direct action of the virus on the arteries themselves.”
Other teams of doctors have reported unusual strokes in younger patients, as well as pulmonary embolisms, the medical name for blood clots in the lungs.
Pathologists are finding tiny blood clots in the smallest vessels, as well, said Dr. Oren Friedman, who has been taking care of Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
“There’s no debate — the virus seems to affect thrombosis and seems to directly affect your blood vessels,” Friedman told CNN. And that means it affects the whole body.
Children’s immune systems to overreact
One of the
most frightening syndromes that might be linked with Covid-19 is
“pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome.” New York City reports 52 cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, and the New York State Department of Health says it is investigating 100 cases.
It is characterized by persistent fever, inflammation, poor function in one or more organs, and other symptoms that resemble shock, a panel of pediatricians known as the International
PICU-COVID-19 Collaboration says.
“In some cases, children present with shock and some have features of Kawasaki disease, whereas others may present with signs of cytokine storm. In some geographic areas, there has been an uptick in Kawasaki disease cases in children who don’t have shock,” Boston Children’s Hospital rheumatologist Dr. Mary Beth Son said. Kawasaki disease involves inflammation in the walls of medium-sized arteries and can damage the heart.
It may be caused by an immune system response known as a cytokine storm, doctors say.
“Your immune system is overreacting to the virus, and because these are inflammatory diseases, this overreaction can cause a Kawasaki-like disease,” Dr. Glenn Budnick, a pediatrician in Pomona, New Jersey, said on CNN Newsroom Saturday.
Covid toes
One last symptom that is puzzling — but less troubling — is known as “Covid toes.” Patients are reporting red or purple swelling of their toes.
It’s possible the tiny blood clots associated with Covid-19 are causing it, doctors said.
“One pattern of COVID toes that people are reporting is red lesions typically on the soles. It’s possible that this is a skin reaction or caused by a small clog or micro clots in the blood vessels found in the toes,” Cleveland Clinic pulmonologist Dr. Humberto Choi said
on the clinic’s website. It’s not usually associated with any serious symptoms, Choi said.
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Source: CNN
