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People who recover after being infected with the novel coronavirus can still be left with substantially weakened lung capacity, with some left gasping for air when walking quickly, doctors in Hong Kong have found.
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority made the findings after studying the first wave of patients who were discharged from the hospital and had fully recovered from COVID-19.
Out of 12 people in the group, two to three saw changes in their lung capacity.
"They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly," Owen Tsang Tak-yin, the medical director of the authority's Infectious Disease Centre, told a press conference Thursday, according to the South China Morning Post.
"Some patients might have around a drop of 20 to 30% in lung function" after full recovery, he said.
Tsang added, however, that patients can do cardiovascular exercises, like swimming, the improve their lung capacity over time.
While it's too early to establish long-term effects of the disease, scans of nine patients' lungs also "found patterns similar to frosted glass in all of them, suggesting there was organ damage," Tsang said, according to the Post.
Current coronavirus patients' CT scans show "ground glass," a phenomenon in which fluid builds up in lungs and presents itself as white patches, as Business Insider's Aria Bendix has reported. The scans below, taken from one coronavirus patient at different points in time, show that the person's "ground glass" became more pronounced as their illness progressed.
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: SonOfTheLawOfOne
not to be overly critical of chinese environmental standards
is this a direct and exclusive fall out from N19COVID
or the effects of recovery from N19COVID in the diabolical airquality of chinese cities
looking at recover rates world wide - i opine there are enough none chinese " recovereds " - that any exclusive N19COVID damage SHOULD be noticed
sorry chinese survivors - it sucks to have your polution
originally posted by: SonOfTheLawOfOne
Something to be aware of. A doctor friend passed this along and had some questions about it that I couldn't answer, maybe someone here can.
People who recover after being infected with the novel coronavirus can still be left with substantially weakened lung capacity, with some left gasping for air when walking quickly, doctors in Hong Kong have found.
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority made the findings after studying the first wave of patients who were discharged from the hospital and had fully recovered from COVID-19.
Out of 12 people in the group, two to three saw changes in their lung capacity. ...
~Namaste
Almost every year I get hit with a pretty bad upper respiratory infection bad cold or mild flu). It starts to clear up after a couple of weeks, but my lung capacity is somewhat reduced for a while. It may take all of a month for me to get back to normal. I think that may be related to a couple of events in the past that affected my respiratory tract, namely exposure to airborne molds.
Just positing that maybe even the changes they are talking about are not forever, but just taking longer to clear up in some than in others.
Defective lung function following influenza virus