Today morning I found two patients in my chamber whose symptoms were consistent with Long-COVID. Long-COVID is a condition when a patient suffers from COVID19 and the related symptoms for an unusually longer period than expected.
The first patient visited me on the 6th of August and his PCR test came back positive. His condition wasn’t a severe one. After two weeks, he felt better and resumed his work. However, he again started having symptoms consistent with COVID19; fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, headache and fever. Today, I didn’t repeat the PCR test but just checked his complete blood analysis which was normal. I gave him some symptomatic management and advised him to avoid heavy work.
The Second patient had all the features of COVID19 around the 20th of July but he didn’t do the PCR test. He assumed that he had the virus. He remained in home isolation for 2 weeks. In the next two weeks, he was comparatively fine and did some work. But for the last couple of days, he started having a high fever, body pain, lack of appetite and loss of smell. He didn’t want to repeat the PCR test this time also, rather he did two blood tests. The CRP test, which we do to see the severity of the disease, was quite high. The CBC also showed the features of infections.
The second patient’s Long-COVID status was worse than the first one.
It is time to Hunt Luke, the list builder. Today, Luke had two hiding places:
- Bluebarrow, occupied with BootScootinTraffic, and
- Westacre, occupied with CupOfTraffic.
I found him 5 times, hence I completed the hunt.
I found Luke 3 times in the Bluebarrow and 2 times in the Westacre.
