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Post-Viral Epidemiology (LONG COVID) Part 2 with Wes Ely

2025/3/19
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Marcella: 我感染了二次新冠,想知道多次感染与长新冠风险的关系。 Dr. Wes Ely: 多次感染新冠会增加患长新冠的风险,这就像浓雾长时间笼罩城市一样,有些患者的长新冠症状会在两三个月后消失,但有些患者,特别是感染三次甚至四次新冠的患者,症状可能持续存在,免疫系统持续活跃。 Allie Ward: 目前长新冠的发病率难以准确追踪,因为检测方式发生了变化。早期新冠病毒株感染症状更严重,长新冠发病率也更高。虽然目前新冠病毒感染的症状总体较轻,但患长新冠的风险依然存在,长新冠并未消失。 Kyle Kitzmiller: 照顾患有长新冠的病人非常困难,因为人们对这种疾病缺乏了解,医生也缺乏有效的治疗方法。长新冠会严重影响患者的生活,导致无法工作,甚至卧床不起。许多医生对长新冠和ME/CFS的治疗缺乏了解,获得正确的诊断可能需要数年时间。医生应该尊重患者的能量限制,避免过度检查。保险公司通常只支付长新冠并发症的治疗费用,而不会支付长新冠本身的治疗费用。患者需要寻找愿意倾听他们诉求的医生。 Diana Cowern: 我患有严重的长新冠,症状包括MCAS、ME/CFS、POTS、SIBO和肠道感染等。 Dr. Wes Ely: 新冠后脑雾实际上是神经心理损伤,严重者可能符合轻度至中度痴呆的诊断标准。NIH资助的研究正在探索免疫调节药物治疗新冠后脑雾的可能性。一项名为“逆转长新冠”的研究正在测试一种免疫调节药物治疗长新冠脑雾和疲劳。新冠后脑雾的持续时间可能很长,甚至永久存在,但患者不应放弃希望。研究表明,长新冠患者脑部存在萎缩和功能缺陷,长新冠会导致神经胶质细胞损伤,进而损伤神经元,甚至导致脑组织丢失。神经胶质细胞损伤类似于植物缺乏土壤和水分,会影响神经元的正常功能。尽管脑组织会丢失,但大脑具有再生能力。一项研究发现,新冠康复两年后,患者仍存在认知障碍。这项研究的意义在于,它通过功能性核磁共振成像技术定位了受损的脑部区域。这项研究为未来治疗长新冠脑雾提供了希望。长新冠可导致中枢和周围神经系统疾病,任何感染或炎症加剧都会加重已有的神经系统疾病。一些医生认为生酮饮食有助于缓解长新冠症状,但需要专业人士指导。饮食与长新冠的进展存在关联,建议采用健康均衡的饮食,并在专业人士指导下进行低炎症饮食。一些患者通过严格控制饮食改善了症状,一些患者通过严格饮食,逐渐添加食物的方式改善了症状。对某些长新冠患者来说,抗组胺治疗可能有效,但并非对所有人都有效。长新冠的治疗需要个体化,并非所有疗法对所有患者都有效。一些长新冠患者尝试了非传统疗法并取得了效果,但需要谨慎对待。目前尚无广泛应用的长新冠治疗方案,未来几年,治疗方法仍将是个体化的。

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This chapter explores the current risk of developing long COVID, considering the evolution of COVID-19 strains and the changes in testing practices. It emphasizes that long COVID remains a significant risk, despite potentially lower symptom severity in recent strains.
  • Lower symptom complexes from COVID compared to earlier strains
  • Lower rate of long COVID, but still a risk
  • No reliable way to track long COVID incidence due to changes in testing

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Long Covid Part 2: Treatments. Studies. Histamines. Hormones. POTS. Clots. Hearts. Hope. Highly-respected Long Covid expert, Dr. Wes Ely, is back for all of your listener questions. We also check in with Physics Girl Diana Cowern on her years-long struggle with the disease. So start with Part 1, and then finish up with this episode addressing all your straggling questions, and great advice for patients and caregivers. 

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