Especially in hospitals in the south of the Czech Republic, where the numbers of new patients are still high, health professionals point out that many beds and devices serve those who have long since ceased to be positive.
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“At the end of the week, seven out of twenty-three patients were hospitalized at the anesthesiology and resuscitation clinic. These are usually the most difficult cases involving artificial lung ventilation, “described Vladimír Šrámek, head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation at the University Hospital at St. Anny in Brno.
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According to him, these are most often patients with serious lung infections, pneumothorax: “Then it is, for example, kidney failure, exceptionally strokes. The duration of treatment in these people varies after covid. It could be a few days, but maybe more than a month. “
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They have another three months of problems
But after release, few people are really fit. “A long, demanding convalescence awaits them. We monitor them at three, six and twelve-month intervals. So far, we cannot give a clear answer, but physical and mental problems persist in almost all patients after three months. For example, fatigue, sleep disorders, shortness of breath, poor physical condition, propensity for depression, “says the head.
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However, he adds, he also has a very positive case where the patient began to rehabilitate, lost weight and reported that he felt better than before the covid. Nevertheless, most of those who recover after discharge from hospital have to seek the care of general practitioners who do not only treat severe cases of post-cancer syndrome. Among them are people who just happened to find out they have covid-19.
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“I come into contact with postcovide syndrome today and every day. And I’m not just talking about patients who went through a serious course of the disease and whose condition required intensive treatment in the hospital. Some of them had an absolutely easy course, yet they come to me with severe postcovide syndrome, “points out General Practitioner Rodion Schwarz, holistic medicine therapist and trainer of doctors and students of the 3rd Medical Faculty of Charles University.
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Infusions only helped
“These are non-specific symptoms outside the scope of the disease. Out of nowhere, people suffer from severe unexplained fatigue, indigestion, and lingering coughs that do not work, including antibiotics. The patient runs five kilometers one day and has a problem walking a few hundred meters to the doctor the next day. There are no explanations for such jumps, “the doctor describes the practice.
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For months, Schwarz has been trying to find a way to help people who suffer from these difficulties after having covid-19. “Manifestations called postcovide syndrome often cannot be explained by medicine. Multiple levels of treatment need to be chosen. I solve it by taking blood, measuring oxygen saturation. For example, a patient has a subjective feeling that his blood is not oxygenating, but he has enough oxygen. This has a psychogenic explanation. But this is not always the case. What has worked for us in the end is infusion therapy, “the general practitioner told Práva.
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“After covid, the digestive tract often does not take tablets well. When a patient eats a thousand milligrams of vitamin C, the body takes barely a hundred and excretes the rest. But if high doses of vitamins and minerals go straight into a vein, for example with a postcovide decoction of herbs, then it works. And as perhaps the only one so far always occupies, “explains Schwarz.
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How it happens that this disease has consequences that doctors often do not know how to deal with, the practitioner explains by the nature of covid-19 itself. “In the end, the course of the covid is difficult to predict. Among the patients I have among a 25-year-old boy who ended up in the ICU and an 84-year-old senior who is severely polymorbid, we randomly tested him, found him to be strongly positive, and the only manifestation he noticed was slightly fever and loss of appetite. He didn’t eat his usual six dumplings for lunch that day, “Schwarz concluded.
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