Neuro-COVID is a term that is used by some experts or authors or researchers to describe the neurological symptoms or features of a COVID19 patient. The most common symptoms are headache, loss of smell (anosmia), altered smell (parosmia), loss of taste, insomnia or lack of sleep etc. Some neurological conditions are also found rarely in cases of COVID19 patients such as stroke, encephalopathy or GBS.
Initially, coronavirus was considered a respiratory virus. However, later it was found to affect almost all the systems of our body. After the respiratory system, our nervous system is affected greatly by this virus.
These patients with the features of Neuro-COVID may experience some long-standing neurological or cognitive dysfunction months after recovering from their original illness. Brain fog or "the inability to think everything clearly like before" is one of the topmost overall symptoms found among the COVID19 survivors. It is one of the top three symptoms besides fatigue and breathlessness among the Long-COVID symptoms. This phenomenon of having a cognitive dysfunction or brain fog among the COVID survivors is often termed as a Long Neuro-COVID.
Here is a long post from "medical news today" on this topic which includes a podcast. A doctor from the UK has shared her story of Long neuro-COVID. Why she couldn't return to her job 18 months after contracting the virus from one of her patients! It is because of her cognitive impairment due to the virus. Go to this post for the details.
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