- Young Covid-19 survivors are at an increased risk of chronic fatigue
- Myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is one of the serious post-Covid problems
- Mild Covid-19 respiratory symptoms could lead to CFS even after recovering from Covid-19
"At six months following their illness, all three still met the criteria for being diagnosed with ME/CFS," Rowe added.
The three patients evaluated in the recent study, published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, were a 19-year-old man and two women, ages 22 and 30, whose Covid-19 symptoms began between April and June 2020.
Symptoms of orthostatic intolerance -- a group of clinical conditions that includes fatigue, lightheadedness and difficulty concentrating, and are linked with greater than 90 percent of the people with ME/CFS -- were prominent in all three from the outset of their Covid-19 illness.
A six-month post-Covid symptom onset examination, including evaluations of movement, neurological function and continued orthostatic intolerance, was conducted on each of the patients to determine if ME/CFS could be diagnosed. All three easily met the criteria.
Further research is needed to define the biological mechanism by which ME/CFS arises from Covid-19, and then use that insight to develop treatment strategies that can return patients with post-Covid ME/CFS back to their previous quality of life, the team said.
Source-IANS