A new study has unearthed three distinct groups of long Covid, all of which come with a unique set of symptoms. The most common long Covid group researchers spotted is one that causes a group of neurological symptoms such as fatigue, brain-fog, and headache. This type of disease is most common for people who were infected with Alpha and Delta variants of COVID-19.
The second type of long Covid causes respiratory issues such as chest pain, and severe shortness of breath – symptoms that indicate lung damage.This second group was the most prominent among people suffering from long Covid during the first pandemic wave.
And the third type of long Covid is linked to a cocktail of symptoms: heart palpitations, muscle ache and pain, and changes in skin and hair.
Long Covid has widely been considered one condition – characterised as a general set of Covid symptoms that appear 12 weeks after infection.
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“Try to gradually increase the amount of exercise you do. Try going for short walks or doing simple strength exercises and build up from there,” BHF adds.
However, it is worth noting that this advice is controversial at the moment.
Back in April, researchers at the University of Leeds explained that increasing your level of physical activity could make symptoms worse.
Like the KCL researchers in the study above, the Leeds researchers concluded that it is a “clinical priority” to develop “individualised” recovery programmes.