Long Covid syndrome & its treatment
The covid pandemic still rages through the world. Almost 200 million people have been infected so far, with more than 4 million of them losing their lives over the last 18 months.
Many people, who survive covid, continue to suffer from some of the problems caused by covid, as covid affects all organs including the lungs, heart, brain, thyroid, sinuses, kidney, liver, the adrenal glands, the muscles and the joints. The symptoms point to which organs are affected.
Some of the symptoms include fatigue, often extreme fatigue, weakness, brain fog - difficulty in concentrating, remembering and thinking, difficulty in breathing, back pain, pain in the throat, chest or abdomen, muscle pain, joint pain, sleep disturbances, a fast heart rate & palpitations, loss of smell or/and taste, headaches, a hacking cough, gastric issues including gas, bloating, acidity, diarrhoea or constipation, malabsorption of food and nutrients, mental symptoms like anxiety and depression.
Anyone with persistence of any of these symptoms for more than 6 weeks after the onset of symptoms of covid, should seek help for the Long Covid Syndrome. These symptoms if tackled early, resolve within 2-3 months, while if not tackled early, may persist for many months or years, in spite of treatment. The treatment of this aspect of the post covid complications does not receive enough attention from doctors worldwide as they are involved in the crises care. I offer a personalised integrated approach to help you recover from this.
Many patients continue to have low grade fever for several weeks after they test negative for covid using the RTPCR test. This is because the virus has cleared from the nose and throat, but still continues to be active, in the body's cells, until the body's immune system has fully cleared it from all their cells. If this process is incomplete, these symptoms may progress and persist for years.
"The Long Covid Syndrome", (which denotes persistence of these symptoms), currently affects an estimated 30 million people world wide, affecting their quality of life and their ability to return to work and their normal life. Effective treatment for this condition is not easily available. This Syndrome is more common in people with auto immune conditions, pre existing post viral syndromes, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetics, obesity, and older people. Patients with severe covid infections who have been hospitalised or those showing a CT score greater than 6/25, are at greater risk, of developing long covid syndrome.
The long covid syndrome is already causing a lot of disability with an estimated 1.1 million people in the UK still suffering from Long Covid. The delta strain is also causing early pulmonary fibrosis which may lead to more than 5 million people worldwide developing a disability which prevents them from working again.
Pulmonary Fibrosis
People in the whom the oxygen saturation has dipped below 90%, who have auto immune diseases or who have been hospitalised or those showing a CT score greater than 6/25 are at greater risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis. The symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis usually manifest 3-6 months after the onset of the covid, and is characterised by difficulty in breathing. This is usually treated with oxygen, continued lifelong, which seriously impairs their quality of life and is difficult to treat with conventional medicine. Enrolling for the yoga classes I teach for patients with covid, early after your recovery from covid, can help to restore oxygenation and circulation, which can help prevent pulmonary fibrosis.
Advice for those of you recovering from Covid.
1. Take enough rest. At least for 12 hours in each 24 hour period.
2. Adjust your activities to a level where your body can deal with it. If you are tired, stop and rest.
Do not over exert. Exercise should be started slowly and increased very gradually.
Do not let yourself get near exhaustion, as it can take a couple of days (sometimes even weeks) to recover from that.
3. Stay off alcohol till you feel good and symptom free.
4. Don't get stressed by the neurological symptoms caused by the covid, as it takes time to recover.
5. Control Your Blood Sugar.
6. Eat a light diet with more carbohydrates and fruit & less protein and fat.
7. Take supplements of Vitamins, B, C, D, zinc, chromium and selenium as advised by me or your physician.
8. Breathing exercises to help expand the lungs, improves circulation, oxygenation and healing. Gyan Yoga is the best for it, as it teaches you to assess which areas of your lungs are not receiving enough circulation and air. It helps you to choose specific asanas to help the healing of each area of each lung individually.
9. Acupuncture, biofeedback & pulsed electromagnetic frequency treatment can help speed up your recovery.
10. Steam Inhalations help liquefy and bring out the phlegm.
I offer an online treatment program, to help you recover from Long covid.
This consists of an initial 45 minute consultation to assess your needs, a review of your documents, & CT scans.
Followed by advice on your diet, nutritional supplements & how to adjust your lifestyle to deal with your symptoms. (Price Rs 10,000). ( US$ 120) ( € 120)
3 X 1 hour Gyan Yoga classes a week for the first 6 weeks Followed by 2 classes a week for the next 4 weeks. (Price Rs 2300/ class).
This helps improve your breathing and the healing of your lungs. It improves your blood circulation, and helps heal your brain, liver, kidneys and intestines which are often also affected by covid. It can help prevent and reverse early pulmonary fibrosis.
Most people feel improvement with the first class itself, which increases with each subsequent class. As these asanas are very gentle and done under my supervision according to the condition and health of the person they are safe and effective. I choose the asanas in each class according to what will benefit each person depending on which areas of the lung and body are involved.
A weekly 15 minute zoom call to review your progress. (Price Rs 3000/call)
45 minute group discussions once a week for you to discuss any questions you may have and for you to interact with others who have similar problems. (Price Rs 750/Discussion)
You can choose individual services to create your own program using the services & prices mentioned above.
My 75 day, Long Covid, online treatment program Which includes all of these
You can save money with a Special Price for the 75 day program: Rs 75,000 ( US$ 1200) ( € 1000) payable in advance on joining the program.
Many people, who survive covid, continue to suffer from some of the problems caused by covid, as covid affects all organs including the lungs, heart, brain, thyroid, sinuses, kidney, liver, the adrenal glands, the muscles and the joints. The symptoms point to which organs are affected.
Some of the symptoms include fatigue, often extreme fatigue, weakness, brain fog - difficulty in concentrating, remembering and thinking, difficulty in breathing, back pain, pain in the throat, chest or abdomen, muscle pain, joint pain, sleep disturbances, a fast heart rate & palpitations, loss of smell or/and taste, headaches, a hacking cough, gastric issues including gas, bloating, acidity, diarrhoea or constipation, malabsorption of food and nutrients, mental symptoms like anxiety and depression.
Anyone with persistence of any of these symptoms for more than 6 weeks after the onset of symptoms of covid, should seek help for the Long Covid Syndrome. These symptoms if tackled early, resolve within 2-3 months, while if not tackled early, may persist for many months or years, in spite of treatment. The treatment of this aspect of the post covid complications does not receive enough attention from doctors worldwide as they are involved in the crises care. I offer a personalised integrated approach to help you recover from this.
Many patients continue to have low grade fever for several weeks after they test negative for covid using the RTPCR test. This is because the virus has cleared from the nose and throat, but still continues to be active, in the body's cells, until the body's immune system has fully cleared it from all their cells. If this process is incomplete, these symptoms may progress and persist for years.
"The Long Covid Syndrome", (which denotes persistence of these symptoms), currently affects an estimated 30 million people world wide, affecting their quality of life and their ability to return to work and their normal life. Effective treatment for this condition is not easily available. This Syndrome is more common in people with auto immune conditions, pre existing post viral syndromes, chronic fatigue syndrome, diabetics, obesity, and older people. Patients with severe covid infections who have been hospitalised or those showing a CT score greater than 6/25, are at greater risk, of developing long covid syndrome.
The long covid syndrome is already causing a lot of disability with an estimated 1.1 million people in the UK still suffering from Long Covid. The delta strain is also causing early pulmonary fibrosis which may lead to more than 5 million people worldwide developing a disability which prevents them from working again.
Pulmonary Fibrosis
People in the whom the oxygen saturation has dipped below 90%, who have auto immune diseases or who have been hospitalised or those showing a CT score greater than 6/25 are at greater risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis. The symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis usually manifest 3-6 months after the onset of the covid, and is characterised by difficulty in breathing. This is usually treated with oxygen, continued lifelong, which seriously impairs their quality of life and is difficult to treat with conventional medicine. Enrolling for the yoga classes I teach for patients with covid, early after your recovery from covid, can help to restore oxygenation and circulation, which can help prevent pulmonary fibrosis.
Advice for those of you recovering from Covid.
1. Take enough rest. At least for 12 hours in each 24 hour period.
2. Adjust your activities to a level where your body can deal with it. If you are tired, stop and rest.
Do not over exert. Exercise should be started slowly and increased very gradually.
Do not let yourself get near exhaustion, as it can take a couple of days (sometimes even weeks) to recover from that.
3. Stay off alcohol till you feel good and symptom free.
4. Don't get stressed by the neurological symptoms caused by the covid, as it takes time to recover.
5. Control Your Blood Sugar.
6. Eat a light diet with more carbohydrates and fruit & less protein and fat.
7. Take supplements of Vitamins, B, C, D, zinc, chromium and selenium as advised by me or your physician.
8. Breathing exercises to help expand the lungs, improves circulation, oxygenation and healing. Gyan Yoga is the best for it, as it teaches you to assess which areas of your lungs are not receiving enough circulation and air. It helps you to choose specific asanas to help the healing of each area of each lung individually.
9. Acupuncture, biofeedback & pulsed electromagnetic frequency treatment can help speed up your recovery.
10. Steam Inhalations help liquefy and bring out the phlegm.
I offer an online treatment program, to help you recover from Long covid.
This consists of an initial 45 minute consultation to assess your needs, a review of your documents, & CT scans.
Followed by advice on your diet, nutritional supplements & how to adjust your lifestyle to deal with your symptoms. (Price Rs 10,000). ( US$ 120) ( € 120)
3 X 1 hour Gyan Yoga classes a week for the first 6 weeks Followed by 2 classes a week for the next 4 weeks. (Price Rs 2300/ class).
This helps improve your breathing and the healing of your lungs. It improves your blood circulation, and helps heal your brain, liver, kidneys and intestines which are often also affected by covid. It can help prevent and reverse early pulmonary fibrosis.
Most people feel improvement with the first class itself, which increases with each subsequent class. As these asanas are very gentle and done under my supervision according to the condition and health of the person they are safe and effective. I choose the asanas in each class according to what will benefit each person depending on which areas of the lung and body are involved.
A weekly 15 minute zoom call to review your progress. (Price Rs 3000/call)
45 minute group discussions once a week for you to discuss any questions you may have and for you to interact with others who have similar problems. (Price Rs 750/Discussion)
You can choose individual services to create your own program using the services & prices mentioned above.
My 75 day, Long Covid, online treatment program Which includes all of these
You can save money with a Special Price for the 75 day program: Rs 75,000 ( US$ 1200) ( € 1000) payable in advance on joining the program.
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