After destructing many lives, second wave of corona has now come on the verge to end. The rising recovery rates being around 90% gives us a bleak gleam of hope. However various research and report states that Covid recovered patients still continue to show COVID symptoms even after weeks they have tested negative. In fact, many patient also tested positive again after a few days of their recovery.

All this post-covid recovery complication has made it difficult for the patient to get back to their normalcy. The problem got added with the detection of different fungal disease like black fungus (Mucormycosis) and others, in covid recovered patients.

Doctors advice, taking care of yourself post-COVID recovery is as much important as it was before getting infected or during your COVID treatment. They say a COVID recovered patient must get their COVID vaccine after appropriate time and continue maintaining precautionary measures to keep up the health.

Even though a person has recovered from Covid-19, he or she still needs to be cautious for the next few days. In fact, experts say, testing negative and following covid protocols, is not enough, a covid revered patients must carry out some post-recovery tests to gather solid information regarding their health.

So, if you have recovered from COVID-19, here are listed few tests and scans that you might want to undergo to avoid severe health complications later.

COVID-19 IgM/IgG Test…

It is simply an antibody test that not only help discover antibodies in your blood to determine if you had a past infection with the SARS-Cov-2 virus but also look for helpful antibodies that would significantly prevent any future infections.

Determining the level and quality of antibodies present in your blood will help reveal how immune-protected you are and whether you are eligible for plasma donation.

It is recommended that if you want to carry out this antibody test, for the purpose to know whether you can donate blood plasma or not, then wait for about 1-2 weeks to develop antibodies, get the IgG test done within a month of recovery.

Complete Blood Count (CBC) Test…

Complete Blood Count test help us to know about the about the blood profile in your body. It helps us identify the number of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets count in our blood per milligram. Going through a CBC test post recovery gives a fair idea of how well your body responded to the Covid infection and the treatment. This also helps the treating doctor or the patient to provide appropriate guidance about the necessary measures that need to be taken post-recovery.

Cardiac Screenings…

Doctors and scientific experts believe that COVID-19 infection triggers a widespread inflammation throughout the body, causing mild to moderate damage of heart muscles, arrhythmias and finally lead to complications such as myocarditis. Chance of myocarditis is often in people already suffering from cardiac comorbidities. Thus, it is advised to patients post recovery, do go through proper cardiac screening, especially those who suffered from moderate to severe infection.

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