If you are infected with the new coronavirus, your symptoms may be relatively mild and manageable at home. However, some people -- about 1 in 6 -- will have complications. What you should know:
With ARDS, the lungs are so severely damaged that fluid begins to leak into them. As a result, the body has trouble getting oxygen into the bloodstream. You may need mechanical help to breathe -- such as a ventilator -- until your lungs recover.Research shows that the most seriously ill patients run the greatest risk of liver damage. Scientists aren’t sure yet whether the virus harms the liver or if it happens for another reason.
COVID-19 also could cause cardiac problems that last long after people have recovered from the coronavirus infection. But since the illness is so new, that’s not clear yet.A secondary infection means that you get an infection unrelated to the first problem you had. In this case, it means someone with COVID-19 gets infected with something else.
A review of several studies done so far on hospitalized COVID-19 patients found that secondary infection is a possible -- but not common -- complication. Sometimes, a person fighting off, or recovering from, a virus gets infected by bacteria. Strep andThis doesn’t seem to be a common complication, but if it happens, it’s serious. If your kidneys stop working properly, doctors will start treatment to stop the damage.
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