Even milder covid can result in a long covid complication: AIIMS doctor
NEW DELHI : The doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have seen over 30 cases of long covid complication indicating an auto-immune illness in patients post covid recovery.
Doctors say that patients after getting recovered from covid showed symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, fever, dryness of eyes and mouth. (Prof.) Dr Uma Kumar, head of rheumatology department at AIIMS said: “We have seen at least 30 patients post covid having auto-immune complications.
where covid is precipitating. So, these patients are who had covid some time back and when they recovered from covid, they started to show symptoms like arthritis, lupus, fever, fatigue, dryness of eyes and mouth, body swelling and rashes suggestive of auto-immune disease." However, it is very difficult for the doctors to identify at what rate such cases have increased post covid. “It is very difficult to suggest as of now how much cases have increased, because we have seen most of the referral cases and some of the patients directly came to us with symptoms.
We need to do a community level survey to understand how much the surge of auto-immune cases post covid is," she said during a press conference on post-covid systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases, its prevention and management.
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