Post COVID-19 sequelae: the ordeal of a young Spanish woman who suffers from a persistent and unusual cough

A 16-year-old girl in Spain contracted COVID-19 in October 2020 and she hasn’t stopped coughing for seven months, at all times.

It is Verena garcia, a young woman from the region of San Javier, Murcia, who was diagnosed with coronavirus last October 27 and since that day one of the symptoms that manifested in the acute phase of the disease is still present. He claims he suffers from a spasmodic cough every two to three seconds for 24 hours a day and it has many more sequelae, such as dizziness and even inflammation of the joints. “There is no clear diagnosis of what I have“, He lamented to the Spanish media.

This painting also caused hearing loss and partial loss of sight, in addition to frequent headaches and increased anxiety, fueled by the number of days and months it takes without knowing exactly or precisely what is happening to it. “All the doctors send me home without offering any studies or explorations“García told the newspaper The truth, a local newspaper from Murcia.

“My life has completely changed. I can’t go to the movies, go out with my friends, eat. I have to spend the day at home. I can’t go to class, I just log in online», Explained the young woman. And he laments in front of the cameras: “I can’t do all that I would like“.

Verena’s life has literally turned into hell since contracting coronavirus, her family believe, as parents took their two children with COVID-19 to the Sagrado Corazón Institute in San Javier. Since, the “fucking cough”, a frequent sequel in a significant percentage of patients cured by COVID-19, has taken their life Be ready, while a medical team studies whether the problem is neurological.

“COVID-19 has left a strange following on my daughter: he coughs every and a half seconds, sometimes he suffers such severe attacks that he loses consciousness, ”said Nacho, the miner’s father.. “I can’t lead a normal life“.

According to the infectologist and epidemiologist Hugo pizzi (MN 54.101), many people who suffered from the disease believed that it was all over and, nevertheless, “some of them had re-infections and 30% of sequelae“.

According to a study carried out by independent researchers with experts from different countries, COVID-19 can leave up to 55 sequelae and at least five lingering symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, disturbances in attention, hair loss and dyspnea.

“We found that up to 80% of patients had at least one symptom for up to 10 months after having COVID-19“Said the doctor Talia Wegman-Ostrosky, co-author of the study.

In research, based on more than 18,000 publications of medical analyzes, the prevalence of 55 long-term effects in 47,910 patients.

According to the study, fatigue is the most common symptom after a person has recovered from the novel coronavirus, as it was present in 58% of cases.

Followed by the headache with 44%, disturbance in attention with 27%, hair loss with 25% and dyspnea (suffocation or shortness of breath) with 24%.

While it appears to be too early to determine how the full recovery of these patients will be, Wegman-Ostrosky said it poses a big challenge for health systems.

“Although most are heart, respiratory and lung problems, there are also psychiatric conditions such as depression, anxiety and that is why it is important to think about the prevention and management of these sequelae.“, Did he declare.

He also said that some of the patients who were hooked up to ventilators report difficulty swallowing or speaking loudly, a usually temporary consequence of injury or inflammation caused by the breathing tube that passes through the vocal cords.

For the moment, the persistent cough from which the young Spaniard suffers is still being studied by the specialists who follow the case.

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