2023-04-18 22:17:21
For many Quebecers, COVID is a thing of the past. Sonia Trudel, she cannot turn the page. This very active mother was infected in January 2021.
She was never hospitalized, but when she thought she was getting out of it, many symptoms returned.
“I had a big relapse that knocked me out, bedridden for months and months. The palpitations woke me up at night, I had the gastrointestinal symptoms, the headaches, lots of brain fog,” she says.
In Canada, it is estimated that approximately 15% of people who have contracted COVID retain sequelae following 12 weeks. Sometimes the symptoms will disappear following months, but this is not always the case. It was to help thousands of Quebecers like Sonia Trudel that the doctor’s team, made up of regarding fifteen people, began work two years ago at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute. 300 patients participated and three main factors of long COVID were identified.
“So the hypotheses that we are currently actively examining are the persistence of viral particles, immune dysregulation. There are also microclots, small clots in the small blood vessels which lead to a lack of oxygen and this can affect organs”, explains doctor Emilia Liana Falcone.
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