By- Dr. Nitin Kumar Saklani
Although majority of COVID-19 patients absolutely better within span of few weeks, but some people continuous to experience some symptoms in Post COVID phase also, this is producing deleterious impact in the daily routine activity of Peoples. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can experience four or more weeks after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Even people who did not have COVID-19 symptoms in the days or weeks after they were infected can have post-COVID conditions. These conditions can present as different types and combinations of health problems for different lengths of time.
These post-COVID conditions may also be known as long COVID, long-haul COVID, post-acute COVID-19, long-term effects of COVID, or chronic COVID. Several research agencies working on COVID 19 and its deleterious consequences on human health, who gets them, and why.
Types of Post-COVID Conditions
Some people experience a range of new or ongoing symptoms that can last weeks or months after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Unlike some of the other types of post-COVID conditions that tend only to occur in people who have had severe illness, these symptoms can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the illness was mild, or if they had no initial symptoms. People commonly report experiencing different combinations of the following symptoms:
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Tiredness or fatigue
- Symptoms that get worse after physical or mental activities (also known as post-exertional malaise)
- Difficulty thinking or concentrating (sometimes referred to as “brain fog”)
- Cough
- Chest or stomach pain
- Headache
- Fast-beating or pounding heart (also known as heart palpitations)
- Joint or muscle pain
- Pins-and-needles feeling
- Diarrhea
- Sleep problems
- Fever
- Dizziness on standing (lightheadedness)
- Rash
- Mood changes
- Change in smell or taste
- Changes in menstrual period cycles
- Burning in palms and soles.
Few patients suffering from Severe COVID 19 condition treated in ICU (Intensive care unit) develops PICS (Post- intensive care syndrome) in which new or worsening impairment in any PICS (Post- intensive care syndrome) in which new or worsening impairment in any physical, cognitive, or mental domain after critical illness or intensive care. PICS impairments often last more than a year and have a severe impact on patients ‘Quality of life’ this will produce impact on the life of family of members which is called as PICS-F. As many as 40% of patients with PICS are unable to return to their optimal level of function, resulting in job loss and financial difficulties that will further complicate their mental and physical health.
Homoeopathy is a form of medical therapeutics discovered by Dr Samuel Hahnemann. It is not synonymous with “natural medicine”. The principle is of “likes being able to treat likes”. Medicines capable of curing symptoms are able to produce those same symptoms in a healthy person. The aim of the homoeopathic remedy is to stimulate the body’s immune system to fight the illness Homoeopathic remedies may be drawn from herbs, metals or poisons but are safe because given in very dilute amounts. Homoeopaths treat the whole person rather than the disease itself and a detailed history of the patient’s likes, dislikes and habits are taken before a remedy is prescribed. How homoeopathic remedies work is not fully understood but in practice they appear to be effective, as some double-blind studies have shown. Not all illnesses are suitable for homoeopathic remedies alone. Majority of syndrome develop after COVID 19 can easily and effectively managed by the use of Homoeopathic medicine.
Homoeopathic medicines that can help in managing Long COVID and Post COVID complication are: GELSEMIUM, PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM, ARSENICUM ALBUM, CHELIDONIUM MAJUS, ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM, BAPTISIA, HYDROCYANIC ACID- LAUROCERASUS, NAJA TRIPUDIANS, CROTALUS HORRIDUS, CARBO VEGETABILIS, and ARNICA MONTANA etc.
All of them are prescribed on the basis of symptom similarity to the condition of patient suffering from long or post COVID syndrome. You can easily avail expert opinion in this concern for proper advice and management of such condition through “Swiftly, Safely and Sweetly” mode of treatment – Homoeopathy.
For expert opinion kindly contact:
Dr. Nitin Kumar Saklani
Officer In- charge
BHMS (Delhi University), MD (Hom) (WBHUS)
Regional Research Institute for Homoeopathy, Shimla
# 8744021902, 8240350526
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Email: ccrhnitinsaklani@gmail.com, nhmcnitinsaklani@gmail.com
