Post-covid-19 in the Omicron variant is not scary

Mar 16, 2022 08:02 GMT+7

Just type the keyword post-Covid-19 examination package on google, within 8 seconds you have received 12 million information about post-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 examination packages. Post-Covid-19 examination packages even amount to tens of millions of dong.

Associate Professor Hoang Bui Hai – Head of ICU, Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Deputy Director of Covid-19 Hoang Mai Hospital, Hanoi said that post-Covid-19 in the Omicron variant is not a cause for concern.

According to Associate Professor Hai, when infected with Covid-19 will be divided into two phases. Acute stage 1: Symptoms of Covid-19, from the time of illness until 4 weeks later.

Second, post-Covid status: Includes a range of symptoms (physical and mental) that develop during or after Covid-19, continue for ≥ 2 months (i.e. three months from onset), and not explained by another diagnosis.

However, currently there is too much information related to the post-Covid-19 situation, Associate Professor Hai said that information about mild Covid-19 infection without symptoms still has the risk of becoming post-Covid-19 with severe lung damage. brick – this is an old story.

At the time of the epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City, when the vaccine was not administered, the Alpha and Delta strains were very severe, overloading the health system. At that time, the patient had symptoms or had no symptoms, people couldn’t go to the hospital, the patient endured, oxygenated at home until he was hospitalized, he had lung damage. However, this has already passed.

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Even in the world’s medical literature, recording cases of silent hypoxia is an “old story”. Currently vaccinated, the strain of Omicron virus is only located in the throat, it cannot go down to the organs below to cause damage.

Assoc. Compared to this case, mild, asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 have no cause for concern and panic as in the community today.

Assoc. Right on March 15, a young family of 4 infected with Covid-19 with mild symptoms, after 4 days of negative symptoms, came to the doctor and insisted on taking a chest X-ray because of concerns about Post-Covid-19 because of the information about the consequences. Covid-19 “terrible”.

Post-Covid-19 examination packages such as “mushrooms grow after the rain”, Associate Professor Hai said that this is not advisable because a lot of information is too old. Packages of up to tens of millions of dong or even 15-20 million dong to search for deep complications are not necessary because there are no symptoms to look for and can’t be found.

With Covid-19 patients, Dr. Hai said that like people with colds before, after 1-3 months, they still have symptoms such as chills, fatigue and it all goes away when the body fully recovers.

Right at the Covid-19 Resuscitation Hospital, Dr. Hai said that there was an 80-year-old patient who did not receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and the patient had high blood pressure. When the patient was admitted to the hospital, he was intubated in a city hospital and had a certain prognosis of death, with 2 white lungs. The patient was transferred to Hoang Mai Hospital for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in a fragile hope.

The patient was mechanically ventilated, receiving intravenous antiretroviral drugs, corticosteroids, anticoagulants, antibiotics to treat superinfection, and other active resuscitation measures. The patient had tried to remove the tube 2 times without success, the doctor had to try for the 3rd time to succeed.

After 2 weeks at the hospital for Covid-19 patients when it was negative, the patient was transferred to Hanoi Medical University Hospital and continued to be treated for 2 weeks at Hanoi Medical University Hospital and was discharged in a good condition. no need to breathe oxygen.

After 1 month after being discharged from the hospital, on March 15, the patient re-examined, ie 2 months from the time of infection was still not enough time by definition to be considered post-Covid-19, the patient’s lungs had brightened a lot. The patient is recovering gradually.

Therefore, for young, healthy people who have had enough vaccines, have Covid-19 without symptoms, there is no need to worry after Covid-19 and try to take a lung film to see if the lungs are “beautiful” or not. Not to mention, the risk of “eating X-ray” side effects when taking CT scans for children is not small.

Khanh Chi