Some COVID-19 patients have reported
being experiencing too low oxygen levels
that lead to unconsciousness or sometimes
even death. Healthcare experts are confused
about this new mysterious symptom of
COVID-19.

Known as ‘Happy Hypoxia’, this phenomenon
has been raising numerous questions about how
exactly the virus causing COVID-19 has been
attacking the lungs and if there can be a way to
effectively treat the patients undergoing it.

The baffling mystery
A healthy individual is expected to have at least
95% of the oxygen saturation level. But doctors
are reporting cases with oxygen saturation levels
below 50%.

“It’s intriguing to see so many people coming in,
quite how hypoxic they are. We’re seeing oxygen
saturations that are very low and they’re
unaware of that. We wouldn’t usually see this
phenomenon in influenza or community-
acquired pneumonia.
It’s very much more
profound and an example of very abnormal
physiology going on before our eyes,” the
Guardian quoted Dr. Jonathan Bannard-Smith, a
consultant in critical care and anesthesia at
Manchester Royal Infirmary as saying.

While other lung conditions could lead to severe
hypoxia, these patients would normally look
extremely ill.
“With pneumonia or a pulmonary embolism,
they wouldn’t be sat up in bed talking to you.
We just don’t understand it. We don’t know if
it’s causing organ damage that we’re not able to
detect. We don’t understand if the body’s
compensating,” the Guardian quoted Dr. Mike
Charlesworth, an anesthetist at Wythenshawe
hospital in Manchester as saying.

The doctor personally experienced the issue
while he suffered COVID-19 in March. After
experiencing cough and fever, he spent 2 days
in bed during which he became hypoxic. He also
started sending very strange messages on his
phone and was feeling delirious. This might have
been due to the drop in his oxygen levels. “My
wife commented that my lips were very dusky.
But I was probably hypoxic and my brain"
probably wasn’t working very well,” he added.
The other patient, who was admitted at a
London hospital felt extremely cold and the
doctors found that her oxygen saturation level
had reduced to 30%. Her blood sample
appeared very dark in color and she was placed
on a ventilator. She died a week later.
When oxygen supplies fall, organs including the
brain, heart, and other vital organs could be
placed at severe risk. Patients tend to lose
consciousness when the oxygen saturation drops
below 75%.

https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/mysterious-coronavirus-effect-happy-hypoxia-baffles-doctors/

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