Healed does not mean healthy. Another wave will come after covid

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– Patients after contracting the coronavirus will absolutely need comprehensive rehabilitation. Previous waves of the pandemic have already shown that complications can be both early and distant. And this is what we are most afraid of as doctors – says the doctor in an interview with Medonet. med. Agnieszka Arendarczyk, specialist in family medicine.

1. Often times, people believe that, since they have had COVID-19 asymptomatically, they are perfectly safe. Nothing could be more wrong
2. The doctor reminds that the complications concern various areas: lungs, nervous system, heart, inflammation, reduced immunity, more frequent incidence of other viral and bacterial diseases
3. – The body must be rehabilitated as a whole. It must come to normal and regain its internal balance – emphasizes Arendarczyk
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Hospitals for convalescents

Many doctors emphasize that while COVID-19 patients are called healers, they are actually neither healthy nor cured. Just like Mrs. Beata from Wrocław. She has had COVID-19 twice: for the first time in March last year. She found out about the positive test result for the second time only five months later.

– I went through both bouts of the disease quite hard. Fortunately, not enough to go to the hospital and under a respirator. The coronavirus has left a lot of havoc in my body. My doctor said my lungs looked like I had had tuberculosis. Besides, I’m weak. Each, even the smallest effort, costs me enormous fatigue and shortness of breath. Now I am under the care of a pulmonologist and my therapy is based on taking steroids. I also have a recommendation to get plenty of rest, confesses the woman.

Postovid rehabilitation courses can be of help to people like Ms Beata. They were launched by many institutions throughout Poland, and one of the first to enter the “Pilot Program in the field of rehabilitation after COVID-19 disease” was the Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Głuchołazy, which started its activity in the Opolskie Voivodeship in September 2020. Until today, he mainly deals with patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection, also after intensive oxygen therapy with the use of a ventilator.

– The interest of convalescents in our facility is enormous and I believe that there should be many more such as Głuchołaska in Poland. We receive patients not only from the first wave of the pandemic, but also those affected by the Delta variant – explains Mariusz Grochowski, director of the facility in Głuchołaska.

Necessary rehabilitation after COVID-19

So far, about 2 have struggled with the effects of the coronavirus in the Głuchołazy hospital. patients after undergoing COVID-19. The number of people willing to take advantage of the services reimbursed by the National Health Fund is not diminishing. On the contrary: reserve lists are created, similarly to other institutions of this type.

– Patients after contracting the coronavirus will absolutely need comprehensive rehabilitation. Previous waves of the pandemic have already shown that complications can be both early and distant. And this is what we fear the most as doctors. Complications concern various areas: lungs, nervous system, heart, inflammation, reduced immunity, and more frequent incidence of other viral and bacterial diseases. That is why recovery is extremely important – emphasizes the drug. med. Agnieszka Arendarczyk, family medicine specialist and founder of the Revita Medicine Center. He also adds that the condition of the nervous system, especially the brain, deteriorates in coronavirus survivors.

Regain inner balance after COVID-19

– Hence the covid fog, memory disorders, loss of concentration and energy. Unfortunately, the so-called outbreak symptoms. They manifest themselves in forgetting words, “losing” thoughts, difficulties in learning new things. Successive waves of cases have shown that this applies to many people who also complain about hair loss – noted the doctor.

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He also emphasizes that rehabilitation after COVID-19 should be comprehensive, not focused on individual organs.

– We rehabilitate the body as a whole. He needs to come to normal and regain his inner balance. The fact that the patients were attacked in different places proves that individual systems were weaker and more susceptible in them. Although COVID-19 attacks the weakest places, regeneration should be comprehensive – explains a family medicine specialist.

According to Dr. Arendarczyk, the essence of postovid rehabilitation is blood thinning.

– For a simple reason: a person’s blood tends to thicken after suffering the coronavirus. And this is what distinguishes it from other viral diseases: so far there have been not so many clots, tissue fibrosis, a tendency to excess free radicals or attacking the body with inflammation and degenerative changes. However, we do not really know all the consequences of COVID-19 infection. And the virus keeps mutating – emphasizes Arendarczyk.

Persistent covid cough does not go by for weeks

– The end of 2021 was indeed characterized by much more visible complications from the outbreak of the coronavirus. The ailments of these patients are very troublesome and manifest themselves as chest pains, short breaths, and rapid fatigue. And a persistent cough that does not go away even after a few months – emphasizes Marek Arendarczyk, promoter of the idea of ​​convalescence in a normobaric chamber and the owner of Revit Normobaria operating near Wrocław.

Normobaria is a chamber in which the patient stays in an environment under a pressure of 1,5 atmospheres, breathes oxygen with a concentration twice as high as in the Earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide higher by 70 times and hydrogen about 20 thousand. times greater than in the atmospheric air. Such parameters of gases make the normobaric chamber a tool of gas therapy, which is one of the stimulants in the recovery of health.

Symptoms also require rehabilitation

— Often times, people believe that, since they have had COVID-19 asymptomatically, they are perfectly safe. Nothing could be more wrong. That is why we attach great importance to laboratory diagnostics, on the basis of which we can find out which organ has suffered the greatest damage. And the tool to fight the consequences of COVID-19 is not only a normobaric chamber, but also hydrogen inhalations and drip drips, which help to improve regenerative processes – explains Arendarczyk. He adds that a lot of emphasis is placed on the promotion of vaccinations.

– And rightly so. Unfortunately, we forget about people who have contracted COVID-19. Pocovid rehabilitation should be more socially aware, because if neglected it may result in many serious complications in the future. And the whole society will pay for it – he emphasizes at the end.

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