Long Covid, CO2 Retention

[divinh]

BBC reporter's long Covid. The thing that caught my eye was the caption that said her breathing made her retain too much CO2, which is an obvious concern for divers...

Long Covid: Will I ever get better?

 

[rsingler]

This is my BIG concern for the future for divers.
We have discovered that even asymptomatic COVID can have scary lung changes.
Asymptomatic COVID-19: What the Neuroradiologist Needs to Know about Pulmonary Manifestations
As a result, I am expecting (without any evidence this early) that the future will bring an increased incidence of AGE due to lung scarring and impaired gas exchange, resulting in alveolar rupture and gas embolus in a group that had only "mild COVID".

I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Pareto]

Hello together

I had Corona last year over Christmas / New Year and thankfully have fully recovered. A few weeks I felt weak during exertion and have kept the 3 months diving break that our medical diving organization prescribes.

Before diving I had a checkup and everything was ok

Here is an article from Wetnotes (German Tek Diving Magazine) about the late effects of Corona. I don't want to translate it here because of copyright problems, everyone can do it for himself



Wetnotes No36 Jun 2020

https://www.wetnotes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Tauchen-nach-Covid-19-Erkrankung_WETNOTES-36.pdf

Wetnotes No39, Apr 2021

https://www.wetnotes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Covid-19-und-Tauchen_Update_WETNOTES-39.pdf

Greetings from Switzerland
Pareto