Painful, prolonged erections appear to be the new and rare complication of COVID-19. An American COVID-19 victim from Ohio, experienced a long-lasting erection, medically called priapism, a disease that caused blood to clot in his penis, according doctors who looked into the complication.
The 69-year-old man was admitted to Dayton, Ohio’s Miami Valley Hospital with a severe case of the COVID-19. The anonymous man was experiencing some severe symptoms such us breathlessness, inflammation, and had fluid buildup in his lungs. Doctors put him in a relaxed state before placing him on a ventilator, but still his condition became progressively worse.
After ten days of treatment, doctors had to turn the man face down after they discovered his lungs was failing – an emergency technique used to help get air around his body. Then when the man was turned face up after twelve hours, medics noticed that his shaft was erect.
Medics immediately drained the man’s penis of blood using a needle after failing to fix the situation with an ice pack for three good hours. Doctors successfully fixed the bout of priapism as the man remained unconscious throughout the process.
However, his lungs did not recover, and the anonymous man eventually died from other complications of the virus.
Medical experts describe Priapism as “an erection that persists beyond or is unrelated to sexual stimulation and typically only involves the corpora cavernosa”. The potential for penile fibrosis and permanent impotence makes the condition a medical emergency. Unaffiliated doctors say that priapism is still an “interesting” manifestation of the disease.
1n 2020, there was a case of a 62-year-old French man who suffered a four-hour erection after the coronavirus triggered blood clots in his penis.
