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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Covid-19 caused a 4 hour erection

 


(Forbes)  -  This is not one of the twelve Covid-19 symptoms listed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. But the American Journal of Emergency Medicine published a case report of a 62-year-old man with a Covid-19 coronavirus infection who had an erection that lasted for four hours.

If you have ever listened to a Viagra commercial, you’ll know that an erection lasting for more than four hours is not a good thing. It’s way beyond the “this is exciting” stage. After all, nothing is that exciting for more than four hours.

Instead, it is a condition called priapism, which the Mayo Clinic defines as a “prolonged erection of the penis,” as opposed to a prolonged erection of the armpit. As the American Urological Association describes, there are two general types of priapism: ischemic priapism, in which blood can’t leave the penis, and non-ischemic priapism, in which blood flow to the penis isn’t regulated very well.

Blood in the blood vessels of the penis is not like the horse and the barn. You want the blood to continue to leave the penis to maintain blood flow and thus oxygen delivery to the penis. Therefore, ischemic priapism is a medical emergency because your penis can’t stand being erect that long and tissue damage may result.

Doctors tried putting an ice pack on his penis but that didn’t topple the problem. When the problem got close to being four hours long, the doctors decided to erect a plan. Fortunately, it wasn’t too hard a problem to solve. 

They stuck a needle into the blood vessels of his penis. This wasn’t done for fun because needles in penis and fun go together like sewage and bed sheets. Rather, they wanted to sample the blood for testing.

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