{"id":8534,"date":"2021-01-18T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:58:43","slug":"shock-devastating-covid-19-human-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/shock-devastating-covid-19-human-lung\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock of how devastating Covid-19 is to the human lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surgeon Brittany Bankhead-Kendall of Texas Technical University Health Science Center (USA) recently showed three X-rays: One for the healthy patient, one for the smoker, and one for of Covid-19 patient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Films of healthy people have plenty of black space, showing they can inhale the required amount of oxygen. A smoker has a lot of blurred vision, while Covid-19&#8217;s patient is almost completely blank.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8535\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8535\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-16109676344791406990122.jpg\" alt=\"Shock of how devastating Covid-19 is to the human lung\" width=\"620\" height=\"286\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-16109676344791406990122.jpg 620w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-16109676344791406990122-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-16109676344791406990122-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoker&#8217;s lung (left) and Covid-19 patient lung (right). Photo: Dr. Kendall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8536\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8536 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-1610967637608479560689.jpg\" alt=\"Shock of how devastating Covid-19 is to the human lung\" width=\"620\" height=\"627\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-1610967637608479560689.jpg 620w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-1610967637608479560689-150x152.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1-1610967637608479560689-300x303.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Healthy lung. Photo: Dr. Kendall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blurring of a lung scan is often an indication of fluid, bacteria, or injury and scarring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Dr. Kendall, the lungs of patients experiencing Covid-19 were worse than any other smoker she had ever known.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The female doctor added that the current medical world only focuses on the death rate caused by Covid-19 without paying attention to the long-term harm of this disease on survivors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SARS-CoV-2 virus often causes complications such as pneumonia &#8211; a condition in which the lungs are filled with fluid and inflamed, making it difficult for the lungs to absorb as much oxygen, leading to coughing and difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some studies also found Covid-19 patients with damage to the epithelial cells that run along the trachea from the nose to the lungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon Brittany Bankhead-Kendall of Texas Technical University Health Science Center (USA) recently showed three X-rays: One for the healthy patient, one for the smoker, and one for of Covid-19 patient. Films of healthy people have plenty of black space, showing they can inhale the required amount of oxygen. A smoker has a lot of blurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13321,13318],"tags":[1123,2438,2488],"class_list":{"0":"post-8534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness-tips","8":"category-green-life","9":"category-mind-posivity","10":"tag-covid-19","11":"tag-illume-e-magazine-online-cover","12":"tag-illume-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}