Lung problems after COVID-19: Kosovo patients also confessed

Sanije Abdullah, 68-year-old, in the month of October last year had proved positive with COVID -19 disease, which has ended without symptoms. Sanije's health problems were presented to her after curing from the coronary, exactly two weeks after another test had shown that she had already passed the virus.

In a conversation about Radio Free Europe She relates that she began to feel tired, coughed, and difficulty breathing.

After the end of the coronary, health problems began. I did my tests, and I realized that I was deeply affected by my lungs. For eight months, I have received various medications and vitamins without letup. I'm still tired. Now I'm treated at home because my son is a doctor and he cares for me”, shows Sanije Abdullah.

Presenting cases of health problems after COVID -19, Musa Hoxha, Kosovo University Clinical Centre (X0>) task manager Pulmology.

He says there are increased requirements for treatment by patients who have been hospitalised by COVID-19, especially the most severe cases of massive mutual pneumonia.

“In Pulmology Clinic no longer has patients COVID-19 positive, but only post patients - CO VID and patients with respiratory pathology. Of course, a percentage of patients who have been hospitalised with major problems are having health problems after they leave the hospital. There are patients who need hospitalization and oxygen, but the number isn't large”, Musa says.

Even Rukije Mehmeti, counterpart at KKUKUK, at the same time as health workers in the private sector, says that some citizens continue to have symptoms after recovery from COVID-19 and return for further treatment of problems, especially those of in the lungs.

Many patients are released from the hospital in good condition. However, at times, when a week later they come with problems in the lungs, which are due to COVID-19, which is past”, Mehmet points out.

In most cases, those with lung problems after defeating COVID-19 are patients who have had diseases and smokers before.

So this is very relative. It's all individual, and it depends on the organisation of what it is like and how it will react to”, Mehmeti says.

It recommends that patients continue treatment for a period even after they have passed the choreography and special care cost them immunity strengthening.

Like many other respiratory diseases, COVID-19 can cause long - term damage to the lungs.

Panagiz Galiatsatos, lung disease expert at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, has mentioned complications such as pneumonia and acute disorders on respiratory routes.

Sepsa (blood infection) is another complication that comes from COVID-19, which can then affect long - term damage to lungs and other organs.

Even in cases of severe coronary infection, a patient's lungs can heal but not overnight.

“Destruction from lung damage takes time”, Galiatsatos said.

“First occurs the original lung wound, followed by gibberish. After a time, the wound begins to heal, but it can take three months or a year or more for a lung to function to be restored to the condition before the coronary”.

The lung strain has its symptoms. It is similar with a broken leg, which must first be placed in a plaster and then removed. Nobody expects to start running after the leg heals. When the leg grows stronger and the muscles grow again, patients may feel uncomfortable healing. That's what happens to lungs”, he said among other things Galiatsatos.

When the pandemic is completed, there will be a group of patients with new health needs, survivors. Doctors, respiratory therapists, and other health care providers will have to help these patients restore lung function as much as possible”, Galiatsatos said.