Doctors assessed the danger of high atmospheric pressure for COVID patients

High atmospheric pressure can adversely affect the condition of people who are sick or have recently had COVID-19 . This point of view was expressed in an interview with RBC by Sergey Voznesensky, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the People's Friendship University of Russia, and Evgeny Timakov, head physician of the Medical Center "Leader Medicine".

“By and large,” Voznesensky remarked. - for a person with any disease - infectious, non-infectious - it is necessary to create the most protective regime possible: with comfortable temperature, humidity, pressure. If any of these factors differ greatly from the average values, “this will not affect the course of the disease in the best way,” the expert explained.

“I don’t know if detailed studies have been conducted on the effect of atmospheric pressure on the course of a coronavirus infection,” Voznesensky continued, noting that people who have had COVID-19 and who have lesions of the nervous system as part of the post-covid syndrome, due to high pressure may be various sympathetic or parasympathetic disorders, such as weakness, dizziness, slightly low or slightly high blood pressure with excessive sweating. “For this category of patients, changes in atmospheric pressure will be a sensitive factor,” the expert concluded.

Timakov agreed with him. He noted that "coronavirus infection has a very pronounced neurotropic component, a vascular component, [which] affects the cardiovascular and autonomic nervous systems." All these systems are interconnected and very sensitive to any external changes, including weather, the expert explained. So, for example, in the summer, in the heat, the infection is much more difficult to tolerate.