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A study provided further evidence that erectile dysfunction is another possible long -term effect … [+]
What can happen after you have gone through Covid-19 remains a permanent care. There is certainly the risk of getting one of the common but often difficult to deal with long COVID symptoms such as fatigue, muscle pain, breathlessness, headache, difficulty and changes in taste mentioned on The website of the World Health Organization. But there is also erectile dysfunction. Ed may not always stand up during long Covid discussions, but A study recently published in Scientific reports Discovered that 19% of the 609 men surveyed stayed for up to two years after he was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19.
More than half of men with erectile dysfunction had it two years after COVID-19
This was part of the COVID-19 Recovery Study II to look at those who spent time as intramural patients with COVID-19 in one of the 20 hospitals in Japan between March and September 2021. If you remember it, it would be during the Alfa and Delta variant phases of the Pandemie. All those respondents were at least 20 years old, with the median age being 48 years old. Of the 116 men who reported at a certain moment after hospitalization, 86 did this a year later, 70 after two years and 40 in both time periods.
Ed did not necessarily come quickly in all cases. While 79 (68.1%) reported that ED was developed within 28 days after their COVID-19 infection, for six (4.3%), the ED arrived in the period two to five months after they were infected. The researchers did not find associations between COVID-19 Ernst, reinfection, vaccination frequency or antiviral treatment with the chance of ED.
Damage to blood vessels can lead to erectile dysfunction
This study was certainly not the first proof that Covid-19 could form a stiff problem for the penis. I wrote earlier about proof of this ED problem with COVID-19 Forbes Also in 2020 as in 2021. A thought is that the severe acute breathing syndrome Coronavirus 2 can cause the release of inflammatory cytokines, along with reduced oxygen levels in the blood that in turn can damage the inside of the blood vessels, known as the vascular endothelael. And erections result when blood flows through arteries to the corpora cavernosa, spongy tubes with tissue that are in the shaft of your penis. Hindering the blood flow in these tubes can set up a problem to get an erection.
Other long Covid symptoms can contribute to erectile dysfunction
The study increased another series of possible series of contributors to ED: other long Covid symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, anxiety and sleep disorders. In the study, those with ED had a higher speed of shortness of breath and fatigue than those without ED. Their scores on the hospital fear and depression scale D and the Euroqol 5-dimensions for pain/discomfort and fear/depression went up after COVID-19 compared to earlier. Moreover, those with Ed also had sleep disorders more often.
All these things can make it more difficult to become sexually enthusiastic. If you are tired, for example: “Ok, let’s do this” may not be the first you come up with. Or the second, third or twenty -eight. As I have written before, erections are not exactly like Netflix shows, on request. Instead, they often require that the man feels good about the situation and himself, which is more difficult to do when you feel anxious.
Of course there is the whole problem here with chicken-of-the egg here. Do such symptoms lead to ED? Or does the Ed caused anxiety and sleep disorders? Is it a bit of both? Or can they be different contributors for different people?
Support for erectile dysfunction must be part of post-known care
The good news is that Ed may not necessarily be permanent. The ED improved in 29 (25.0%) of men during that period by 15 within a month, one within two months, one within four months and twelve within a year. But 57 (49.1%) still had ED on the two -year -old Mark.
There are also treatments for Ed. These vary from counseling to lifestyle changes in medicines in devices to surgery. The presence of ED should not mean the absence of a happy sex life.
All this suggests that post-acute COVID-19 care must explain the possibility of erectile dysfunction. Men may not be willing to name Ed as a problem, because it still has unnecessary social stigma. That is why doctors may want to increase the possibility of talking to patients, especially for those who suffer from other long Covid symptoms.