Kolkata: Many survivors of Covid throughout the city have reported partial or total voice loss, which has made them panic.
The doctor said that this often happened after a covid-induced laryngeal infection, and assured that this was truly reversible.
Conditions – where many others suffer from hoarse voices, following covid-induced lung fibrosis – and some finally suffer from the loss of speech in full for weeks, indirectly caused by Covid, but because this disease makes them vulnerable to infection larynx, said experts.
“Even though the lung fibrosis triggered by Covid is not responsible for losing sound, some suffer from larynx infections, which affect their voices.
It makes them choke and cannot speak but it is impossible to cause long-term damage,” said Raja Dhar, director of pulmonology, CMRI Hospital, added, “Most have regained their votes within two weeks to three weeks.” BAPPI Singer Lahiri seems to lose his voice while after the Covid attack last April.
While Covid mostly affects a lower respiratory system, in some cases it has been played in the upper respiratory tract, showing Sauren Panja, intensivist, RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS).
“As a result, it has triggered laryngeningopharyaritis, or simultaneous inflammation of larynx and pharynx.
Larynx according to the sound box – the air released from it activated the last – and once it struggled to remove air due to inflammation, the sound was slow and low.
For some people, It’s quite acute, resulting in almost complete speech loss, “he explained.
This has happened between the first weeks and three Covid attacks and can last up to three months, experts said.
But it hasn’t caused the loss of sound in any case.
“It triggers panic between patients and their families.
It also makes patients affected depressed, with some even need counseling,” Panja said.
Another reason behind the loss of the sudden post-covid sound is a lung infection.
“The lung capacity decreases, so speak still working and slow.
Sometimes, these patients find it difficult to talk at all, and we advise them to rest when talking.
It improves over time when the infection heals,” Panja said.
This is called the “Covid-19” or a hoarse voice, which has been very common among patients all over the world, said the doctor.
Internal Medicine Consultant Arindam Biswas shows that Covid has also led to inflammation of the vocal cord muscles, causing sound changes or loss.
“Apart from laryngeningopharynitis, this also affects the sound, often makes it squeaky or hoarse.
Covid drugs, including steroids, enough to treat inflammation; after subside, the sound returned.
But it has given fear to many people,” he added.
However, Covid is not directly responsible, said Dhar.
“It only makes the lungs susceptible to infection, which leads to such conditions.
But the virus mostly affects a lower respiratory system, which is why the number of patients like that is not large.” Others, like Panja, however, argue that losses or voice changes can also occur because something called “chronic tired syndrome post infection.” “General fatigue and lack of energy can also affect sound, making it very low,” he said.