Coronavirus: many patients reporting neurological symptoms

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As case numbers of COVID-19 continue to rise around the world, we are starting to see an increasing number of reports of neurological symptoms. Some studies report that over a third of patients show neurological symptoms.

In the vast majority of cases, COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that causes fever, aches, tiredness, sore throat, cough and, in more severe cases, shortness of breath and respiratory distress. Yet we now understand that COVID-19 can also infect cells outside of the respiratory tract and cause a wide range of symptoms from gastrointestinal disease (diarrhoea and nausea) to heart damage and blood clotting disorders. It appears that we have to add neurological symptoms to this list, too.

Several recent studies have identified the presence of neurological symptoms in COVID-19 cases. Some of these studies are case reports where symptoms are observed in individuals. Several reports have described COVID-19 patients suffering from Guillain–Barré syndrome. Guillain–Barré syndrome is a neurological disorder where the immune system responds to an infection and ends up mistakenly attacking nerve cells, resulting in muscle weakness and eventually paralysis.

Other cases studies have described severe COVID-19 encephalitis (brain inflammation and swelling) and stroke in healthy young people with otherwise mild COVID-19 symptoms.

https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-many-patients-reporting-neurological-111159993.html

[tanyev]

1. Oh, no. I had a boss who had Guillain-Barre in her early 60s.

She recovered, but it took a long time and a lot of physical therapy. It took them some time to figure out what she had, and things were looking pretty grim for awhile.

[Laffy Kat]

2. In 1995, my 26-year-old brother-in-law, died of GBS.

He was strong and healthy as a horse before he got sick. He got so sick so fast they had to ventilate him on his third day in the hospital and he died less than a month later.

[MFM008]

3. Strange

The 1918 flu had similar effects on its victims including a type of narcolepsy.
Perhaps a virus thing.....

[Initech]

5. And this thing is behaving almost exactly like the 1918 flu.

Scary to think what the fall has ahead of us. Hopefully this thing doesn't come back. But if it does...

[MFM008]

6. I agree 1000%

......

[Initech]

4. This is a beast unlike anything we have seen before.

God help us that we get that vaccine.