AusGeoff wrote on Mar 25
th, 2024 at 4:04pm:
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Long COVID may be nothing unique in the future—but its effects today are still very real."
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Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, MPh, PhD, 23 March 2024.Long COVID is one of the most controversial topics remaining about the pandemic.
Depending on who you ask, it is either a real and current threat to the health of the
globe, or a relatively minor issue that we should pay little attention to in the future.
It is hard to weigh in on the topic without passionate advocates taking issue with
the things that you say, which is true of quite a lot of the conversations we have had
over the course of the pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/23/long-covid-effects-studyThe problem, however, is that a lot of people were infected in 2020 and
2021, before we had vaccines and treatments to reduce the severity
of the disease.
There is no question that a large group of people are
still suffering serious problems from their initial COVID infection, many
of them years after first getting sick.
And herein lies the problem with long COVID discussions. There are two
separate conversations going on at the same time. We can talk about the
future, which seems a bit brighter—long COVID rates are down drastically,
and people who got infected with COVID are now about as likely to experience
serious, long-lasting issues as people who got influenza in 2019. But we
also have to acknowledge the large number of people seriously injured by
COVID in the early stages of the pandemic who may never recover their health.
yes there IS a question.
human beings can suffer from all sorts of problems based on their fears, stresses, anxieties,
reading about long covid will trigger symptoms in susceptable people.
such talk then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy .
for your consideration geoffrey
Somatoform illness is further classified as follows:
Hypochondriasis: This is a condition in which the person believes a minor physical symptom to be a grave disease. For example, concluding the temporary flatulence problem into colon cancer.
Conversion disorder: When a person who does not have any medical illness experiences neurological symptoms such as seizures, which affect movement and senses, it is conversion disorder.
Somatization disorder: Here, an individual feels frequent headaches and has diarrhea, which does not relate to a serious medical condition.
Body dysmorphic disorder: A person gets stressed about their body's appearance, such as wrinkles and obesity. Here the person gets severely affected by anorexia.
Pain disorder: Here, a person senses severe pain over any part of the body, which might last for six months to one year, without any physical cause—for example, migraines, tension headaches, back pain, etc.
Risk factors of psychosomatic disorder
Psychological factors can alter a medical condition to a certain extent.
For example:
Diabetes: Type-2 diabetic patients are more susceptible to stress-related hypertension. The same stress factors of hypertension exacerbate the diabetic condition.
Cancer: Many causative factors are responsible for the development of cancer in people. Studies have suggested that psychological stress can affect a tumor’s ability to grow and spread, thereby worsening the state of cancer.
Some medical conditions arise due to mental tension, such as:
Hypertension: Some psychology triggering factors like negative emotional state, frequent adverse stress, and social factors such as economic status and life events have an indirect relation with the levels of blood pressure.
Heart disease-associated arteriosclerosis: Studies have concluded that the development of coronary heart disease is correlated with several risk factors in which depression, anxiety, and stress are also major causes.
Respiratory problems: Apart from various etiological influences, emotional stress is a major triggering factor associated with bronchial asthma induction.
Gastrointestinal problems: Peptic ulcer formation is related to stressful life events of an individual
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