Category: long COVID

Clinicians Discuss Major Treatments for Long COVID–The Effective and the Questionable

Long COVID has posed a challenge for doctors to treat. Critical care specialist Dr. Paul Marik has labeled long COVID a syndrome rather than a disease due to its complicated symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, malaise, shortness of breath, tachycardia, and gastrointestinal problems, to name just a few. The symptom clusters of long COVID have…


Long COVID: 4 Contributors and the Possible Root Cause

It has been more than two years since long COVID manifested, and scientists are still far from settled on its cause. However, based on common clinical manifestations and emerging research, clinicians have identified several contributors to long COVID symptoms. Spike Protein Appears to Be the Leading Contributor Spike protein can exist in the immune cells…


3 Common Long COVID Symptoms, Low-Cost Remedies Recommended by Doctors

Nearly three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, experts are trying to understand the lingering symptoms of what is commonly called long COVID, who is most at risk, and how the symptoms can best be treated. A cross-sectional study of over 16, 000 individuals found 15 percent of U.S. adults with a prior positive COVID-19 infection reported…


What Is Long COVID Really Like?

Life has been on a steady downward slope for Hannah Camp Johnson, an intelligent, once-healthy 26-year-old woman from Alabama. In August 2020, she contracted COVID-19. She experienced severe symptoms, including coughing, fever, and crippling fatigue; her oxygen levels fell, and she needed to take breathing medicine. She lost her ability to walk due to muscle…


New CDC Report Attributes 3,500 Deaths in America to Long COVID

Long-term effects from COVID-19 infection, referred to as “long COVID,” are responsible for over 3,500 deaths in the first two and half years of the pandemic, according to a new government report. The report (pdf), released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is based on death certificate data for deaths that…


Biden Admin Moves to Make Expired COVID Rules for Health Care Workers Permanent

In its latest effort to make permanent pandemic-era mandates for health care workers, the federal agency regulating workplace safety has submitted a final draft of rules to the White House budget office for review. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which sees exposure to COVID-19 as a matter of workplace safety, in June 2021…


Edible Fungi Boost Immunity, 2 Herbal Recipes to Improve Long COVID

There are many edible fungi. In addition to common mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms and king oyster mushrooms, single-celled yeasts used for bread or winemaking, as well as Poria and Antrodia camphorata, which can be found in traditional Chinese medicine and health care products, are all edible fungi. These edible and medicinal mushrooms have been…


With the Easing of COVID-19 Rules in China, People Are Rushing to Purchase Antipyretic Drugs

Just a few days ago, Chinese people were being told by their government how serious it was to be infected with COVID-19 and how bad long-COVID symptoms can be. Then, the Chinese government suddenly relaxed the anti-pandemic policies after intermittent lockdowns had occurred around the country for nearly three years. With no more COVID-19 testing stations…


Will the Term ‘Long Flu’ Join ‘Long Covid’?

Some laypeople, patients, and public health observers have begun using the term “long flu” as a way to describe long-term or chronic symptoms arising after the flu, mirroring the use of the term “long COVID” to describe the lingering effects of that virus. Uncertainty surrounded COVID-19 in its earliest days, stemming from the fact that…


3 Tips to Regain and Improve Long Term Sense of Smell

Loss of smell is a unique symptom after COVID-19 infection and one of the most commonly reported symptoms in the early stages of infection. Unlike other viral infections, post-infection loss of smell, or anosmia, occurs suddenly and without blockage of the nasal mucosa. A new study in the British Medical Journal states that 5 percent…