Long covid symptoms may include hair loss and ejaculation difficulties

Carissa Wong is a person.

According to the study, hair loss, reduced libido and ejaculation difficulties are not recognised as long covid symptoms.

According to the World Health Organization, long covid is a set of 33 symptoms that usually develop within 3 months of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, with the symptoms lasting at least 2 months with no alternative explanation.

Some studies suggest that up to 20% of people may be affected by long covid after they catch covid-19.

The effect of covid-19 on 115 symptoms was studied and it was found that 62 of them were associated with covid-19. There are some new symptoms that are really new. They weren't attributed to covid-19 in the long term.

When the alpha variant was dominant in the UK, 486,149 people who tested positive for covid-19 were not hospitalized. The records of 1.9 million people who had not tested positive for covid-19 were compared. The participants were matched for a variety of factors, including age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, smoking status, body mass index and any other health conditions.

The participants who tested positive for covid-19 were more likely to report any of the study's 62 symptoms at least 12 weeks post-infection.

Painful ejaculation, late ejaculation and fear of ejaculation are included in our definition.

It's not clear how covid-19 leads to hair loss, but it can be caused by other infections.

When your body is in a state of stress, it can result in new hair growth, which leads to your existing hair falling out. Telogen effluvium is a condition. One possible mechanism for covid-related hair loss is that it is not like a single patch of hair.

Problems with ejaculation and decreased libido are common in other chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, but how exactly sexual function may develop after a virus like covid-19 is not well understood.

Covid-19 may be a chronic illness due to the fact that people with other chronic illnesses often experience sexual problems. We haven't looked at other viral infections in the same way that we've looked at long COVID and I think that's because we know that viral infections are not just acute events.

People with long covid tend to have one of three different types of the condition. The majority of people in the study experienced a wide range of symptoms, including fatigue, rash and pain.

Depression, anxiety, insomnia and brain fog were some of the cognitive symptoms that more than one in 10 had. Some 5.8 per cent of the participants had breathing problems.

Understanding the different types of long covid symptoms can help clinicians plan better treatment for those with the condition.

Nature Medicine is published in the journal.