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What is restless anal syndrome?
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Although the global vaccination rate reached 40 in mid-October, COVID-19 clearly hasn't gone away for good just yet.
The most common symptoms of coronavirus are mostly well known, but it keeps surprising us with new repercussions, like restless anal syndrome, for example.
On September 23rd, the BMC Infectious Diseases Journal reported on the case of a 77-year-old Japanese man suffering from restless anal syndrome several weeks after being discharged from hospital.
He'd had no such problems prior to COVID infection, leading researchers to suggest that it could be responsible.
How did this unpleasant side effect come on?
The man had been hospitalized for about 20 days following breathing difficulties caused by the disease.
Then he was given the all clear to return home.
Gradually, he began to suffer from insomnia and pain situated around 10cm above the perineum, which is found between the genitals and anus.
That was causing him considerable discomfort on a daily basis.
A colonoscopy only detected internal haemorrhoids, but no other lesions.
An anxiolytic helped to manage the symptoms, but the pain is still persisting 10 months into treatment.
Exercise like walking and running seems to be the only activity that relieves the pain, while resting makes it worse.
But how on earth did we get from a seasonal virus to a restless anus?
The spread of coronavirus into the nervous system has been observed in many instances.
Neurological damage is very common and affects about 8% of hospitalized COVID patients.
Such damage may vary in severity, with the most serious effects including a stroke.
They account for more than a quarter of neurological manifestations associated with COVID-19.
However, researchers note we're still a long way from fully understanding all the neuropsychiatric consequences.
The reasons behind all of these symptoms are yet to be studied.
Sometimes they result from anxiety and post-traumatic stress linked to this unprecedented crisis.
Does it have anything to do with restless leg syndrome?
The article suggests that there is indeed a connection.
The patient was likely experiencing a rare form of restless leg syndrome.
It's a neurological condition consisting of severe discomfort in the lower limbs during sleep and resting.
It may therefore be a variant of this syndrome, since the four essential common characteristics are the desire to move, a worsening of the symptoms when resting, a feeling of relief when exercising and a general deterioration of the condition in the evening syndrome ever go.
To date, the Japanese patient remains the only known case of post-COVID-19 restless anal syndrome.
To understand its evolution and find a possible cure.
Other similar cases would need to be identified.
According to specialists, this discovery is just another piece of evidence that COVID-19 can have an effect at a neurological level.
For now, we have to be careful before jumping to any hasty conclusions.
In pandemic times, in-depth research requires patience.
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