Adenovirus (highly contagious virus causing lymphadenopathy symptomatizing swelling of the glands within the neck, accompanied by a chilly, or pharyngitis, or bronchitis, sometimes also conjunctivitis, keratitis, or a mixture of the 2 (keratoconjunctivitis).
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LONDON — A U.K. study showed that symptoms of a chilly can linger well beyond the essential period of illness, suggesting that somewhat like “long Covid,” “long colds” may exist.
The study, published Friday in scientific journal The Lancet, showed that non-Covid infections could be related to a variety of illnesses greater than 4 weeks after the initial infection.
After studying 10,171 participants, scientists on the Queen Mary University of London concluded that there could also be long-lasting health impacts from other respiratory infections, akin to the common cold, which are unrecognized.
They were unable to say whether the symptoms of “long colds” would last so long as those of “long Covid.”
“Post-acute infection syndromes aren’t a recent phenomenon; indeed, many cases of chronic fatigue syndrome are reported to follow an infection-like episode. Nonetheless, these syndromes often go undiagnosed owing to the big selection of symptoms and lack of diagnostic tests,” an introduction to the research on The Lancet website said.
There have been similarities between the symptoms of those with “long Covid” and “long colds,” but typical post-Covid issues akin to taste and smell deficiencies and dizziness were less common in people affected by long colds.
“Long Covid” typically refers to a variety of mid- and long-term effects that may emerge following a Covid infection — including fatigue, breathlessness and cognitive dysfunction.
The term “long Covid” was coined in spring 2020 when individuals who had had Covid-19 didn’t fully get well for several weeks or months after they were first infected.
The World Health Organization defines it as “the continuation or development of recent symptoms three months after the initial infection … with these symptoms lasting for at the very least two months with no other explanation.”
