Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion
Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:
What we would be trying to do there is determine the constellation that characterises long Covid for this person whom we know has been infected with Covid and there is a relationship in time. However, sometimes Covid can cause other very specific symptoms. It can cause an asthmatic's asthma to be worse for a period, so it is simply an exacerbation. We want to distinguish that. It is manageable because it is an increase in the inhalers and tablets. I do not want to be speaking for my colleagues in respiratory medicine here, but those are things we will use to manage it. If somebody's asthma improves, we say we know what we have got here, maybe their asthma has been exacerbated and they do not have other symptoms of long Covid, but if they-----
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