Covid can give you symptoms that are heart-related, says Specialist Emergency Physician Dr. Brian Charles.
Persons positive for Covid-19 are presenting with heart-related symptoms.
Specialist Emergency Physician Dr. Brian Charles revealed that while it is well known that symptomatic Covid-19 patients often present with respiratory conditions, several persons first headed to their doctors with what appeared to be heart related problems before they were tested and found to be positive for the virus.
“Initially, we thought Covid would present with the respiratory type illness – sniffles, coughs, sore throat – but as we progressed we found persons were presenting with illnesses that were not respiratory related, and when we tested they were testing Covid positive. Covid can give you symptoms that are heart-related.
“So we are getting persons with irregularities in heart rhythm, we are getting people with heart attacks, we are getting people with strokes, we are getting people with blood clots in their lungs and blood clots in their peripheries; all of which are Covid-related,” he revealed.
Carried on the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation’s Facebook page, Charles was speaking on the Covid Communication Unit’s Covid Queries yesterday, the one year anniversary of the global pandemic.
He pointed out that while originally the virus is viewed as primarily a respiratory disease, it was now realised that it could present with a multitude of other symptoms.
“Strokes, heart-related illnesses, illnesses of the gut, illnesses of the kidneys and peripheral illnesses where persons have had to undergo amputations because of clots in their limbs, only because of Covid, so I say all of this to say that there is no one disease pattern for Covid, which makes it such a complex and interesting disease to manage and to treat,” he opined.