top of page

Long COVID

shine043

Updated: May 22, 2024

Currently, 5% of Australians experience COVID symptoms past three months of infection. Long COVID can affect many body systems and cause persistent, debilitating symptoms. It consists of symptoms that persist over 12 weeks without another diagnosis.


Those symptoms can include:

· Fatigue · Shortness of breath · Brain fog · Joint pain · Headache · Cough · Memory loss · Anxiety · Sleep issues · Altered taste and smell · Palpitations · Diarrhoea · Sore throat · Hair loss · Hearing loss · Fever/chills


If you have these symptoms persistently, you may have long COVID. As you can see, the list is quite extensive, so the symptoms could be easily mistaken for another illness. Therefore, it is important to get a diagnosis.


Those more at risk of long COVID are:

· Females

· Middle-aged

· Previous severe COVID-19 illness

· Multiple COVID-19 infections

· Individuals with chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes

· Those with a history of psychological stress.


Long COVID is linked to immune dysfunction where the immune system acts abnormally, and there is inflammation in multiple body systems.


Naturopathic treatment for long COVID involves mediating a disrupted gut, decreasing inflammation, boosting the immune system to fight the infection, boosting energy levels, clearing up viral cell damage in the body, and eating a healthy anti-inflammatory diet.


Treating chronic immune deficiency takes time, but natural medicines are very effective. Many herbal medicines and nutritional supplements can help with these symptoms and aid clearance and recovery of long COVID.

6 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All

Comments


bottom of page