Which diseases could increase the risk of Covid?

CNI Desk: 

What raises the risk of COVID reinfection?

COVID as a disease is directly linked to how good or bad your immunity is. While a bout of the infection, apart from timely vaccination garners you enough protection from the deadly disease, reinfection cases are still being recorded worldwide, even if fewer in number.

Some are even scarily, getting reinfected in less than 50 days time.

 

Reinfection is a possibility we must take into account.

It's important to be safe after COVID recovery

While every person, post COVID recovery must not be complacent, just like COVID infection chances, doctors also believe that having pre-existing conditions also makes a person more vulnerable to reinfection, or suffering from complications after initial recovery.

The biggest cause- frail immunity and impaired vital functioning. A study done by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has now found that people with comorbidities have a higher risk of COVID reinfection, be it milder or severe.

Therefore, people with these conditions and disease risks need to be the most careful if they want to avoid the risk of catching COVID-19 more than once:

Diabetes

 

Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes are one of the biggest comorbidities which can aggravate your risk for novel coronavirus. From increased skin infections, frail immunity and susceptibility to other diseases, diabetes patients have an unusually higher likelihood for COVID. Researchers have also observed that patients with diabetes, who suffer from a previous bout of COVID019 have faster waning immunity, leaving them more vulnerable to catching COVID again.

The ones who are the most at risk include the ones who suffer from asymptomatic, mild cases of COVID-19 or have had a COVID recovery that’s longer than six months.

Age-related problems

People over the age of 55 experience frail immunity, which makes them vulnerable to COVID-19. If studies are to believed, senior citizens, especially the ones who have tailing comorbidity are also at a higher risk for catching the disease more than once.

Underlying thyroid issues

Thyroid is yet another time disease which can impact your immune system functioning and increases COVID risk.

Drugs used to treat underactive thyroid or overactive thyroid can sometimes suppress the immune system functioning, make a person vulnerable to catching frequent illnesses. Dysfunctional hormones also mean that your body's ability to fight off infections and other pathogens may also be compromised. Hence, the ones with underlying hormonal problems and thyroid issues need to be extra careful about the risk of reinfection.

People suffering from obesity

High obesity levels underplay your body’s natural defence systems, increasing a person’s vulnerability to COVID-19. People suffering from obesity are also more likely to encounter severity and more lethal complications.

What obesity also does is increase the inflammation levels in the body, impair vital functioning which makes it much more difficult for the immune system to do its job well, especially after COVID-19 recovery.