Your Lungs on COVID-19
When your lungs aren’t capable of delivering oxygen to your body, the heart suffers. It can become weak, which is a concern for anyone getting the virus. While COVID-19 isn’t a respiratory disorder, it is affecting the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, endocrine system, and the blood.
No Long-Term Survivors at This Time
It’s not possible to say at the time what the long-term effects of the virus is. This is because the first patients in China have only been recovered for a short amount of time. Less than three months. Doctors were too busy treating the sick to monitor progress of nearly 400,000 people worldwide. Doctors do have a concern that organs may have been knocked off kilter for those infected. It may cause a problem with recovery. This can leave patients with health problems in the future.
Viruses That Rear Their Ugly Head
Another question by healthcare professionals is will this lie dormant in the body and come back years later in different forms? Viruses have a tendency to do this. If we look at chicken pox or the herpes virus, it can sit in the body for many years and morph as shingles. The virus that causes hepatitis B can cause liver cancer later on in your life.
Doctor’s believe that because COVID-19 can cause long lasting damage to your lungs. The Coronavirus can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). It’s been found that one-third of patients who had SARS will experience lung impairment for up to three years. After about 15 years, the lungs went back to normal. It’s hard to say exactly how you’ll be affected after the fact when contracting COVID-19. If you had health problems prior to being infected, it’s probably going to take longer to get past it. There’s also the possibility that your body experiences a lot of inflammation. This can cause damage in the body such as clots. Later on, this can cause heart attacks. Right now, there’s just too many unknowns and the true long term side effects are not known.