They detect first case of restless anal syndrome linked to COVID

After a year and a half of the coronavirus pandemic, the symptoms and pathologies associated with COVID are still appearing today. The last of them was published in the specialist magazine BMC Infectious Diseases on September 23 and received a lot of attention: restless anus syndrome. An illness that could be linked to the coronavirus.

The specialists of Tokyo University Medical Hospital reported that a 77-year-old man suffered from insomnia and anxiety while infected with the virus and, several weeks after his discharge, he began to feel a deep and restless anal discomfort.

The patient reported feeling a strong urge to move while at rest. When he moved, the symptom improved but reappeared when he rested. The man described a strange anal sensation. A colonoscopy revealed that she had internal hemorrhoids.

The Japanese grandfather passed the Covid-19 in a gentle way, without showing any significant symptoms, although he experienced insomnia and anxiety while he was infected. However, several weeks after being released, the man began to experience severe pain in the anal area.

After seeing the doctor and performing a colonoscopy, they found out that the patient had internal hemorrhoids and ended up concluding that he was suffering from restless anus syndrome.

Restless anal syndrome is a variant of RLS, which has also been linked to a small number of COVID-19 cases. RLS is a disorder in which a person has the urge to move their legs to stop certain sensations such as itching, burning, or tingling.

This is the first case report linking restless anal syndrome and coronavirus disease.

what is it

But what is this strange syndrome? It is a common disease that affects the nervous system and can also occur in the arms, legs, face, and chest. This disease causes an overwhelming urge to move the legs with an unpleasant sensation of crawling or crawling.

Although it may seem unusual, this syndrome is reported to be affected by 1 in 10 people in some situations, and it can be caused by another medical condition.

The 77-year-old man’s symptoms were relieved by daily treatment with clonazepam, a medicine used to treat seizure disorders and panic disorders. But in some cases, treatment can also include increasing exercise.

Regarding the relationship of agitated anus syndrome to Covid-19, scientists explained that the long-term neuropsychiatric effects of the coronavirus are not yet fully understood and that it is not yet clear how the coronavirus causes these effects.

Therefore, experts called for long-term monitoring of these effects to gain a more complete understanding of the mechanisms behind them, adding that variants of the syndrome linked to Covid-19 could be more than diagnosed.

Long-term symptoms

A group of researchers from the Houston Methodist Neuroregeneration Center (United States) conducted a study that demonstrated more than 50 effects caused by COVID-19 once the disease is conquered, i.e. long-term persistent symptoms of coronavirus.

As the study noted, at least 80% of adults who have overcome the disease have a symptom that can last from a few weeks to several months and they range from mild to debilitating. The study sample was 47,910 patients, and they were followed for 14 to 110 days.

Thus, the most frequent symptoms in the patients studied were fatigue (58%), headaches (44%), disturbances in attention (27%), hair loss (25%), respiratory (24%), loss of taste. (23%) and loss of smell (21%).

In addition, symptoms related to lung diseases such as cough, chest discomfort, decreased lung diffusion capacity, sleep apnea and pulmonary fibrosis have been reported; and symptoms related to cardiovascular diseases such as arrhythmias and myocarditis have also appeared. Researchers also found cases of dementia, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder in patients.