If you feel it in your head, you can have Long Covid, says Dr. Fauci
A current sign of a post-acute SARS-COV-2 infection sequela: brain fog.
If you meet a "brain fog", or difficulties to concentrate or concentrate, it may not be a hangover this time that it could be a sign that you have "Long Covid", saidDr. Anthony Fauci, the best infectious disease specialist in the Nation and Chief Councilor of President Biden.It is a strange symptom of even foreign syndrome: symptoms encountered by people who have been positive tested forCOVID-19 [Feminine, weeks or months after the virus cleared their body. This is something that the experts are trying to understand. Read more about this sustainable disease - and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci says "Brain Fog" is a time symptom of Long Covid or "PASC"
In December, the Congress booked $ 1.5 billion over four years for national health institutes to study "Long Covid", "said Fauci in a report of theWhite House Response Team Covid-19 Briefing Wednesday. It is now called PASC, for post-acute sequelae of SARS-COV-2 infection.
People with PASC can undergo a wide range of physical effects. "The symptoms of this this include fatigue, shortness of breath, sleep disorders, fevers, IM symptoms, anxiety and depression, and what some refer to brain fog, disability or Struggling to focus or focus, "said Fuci.
And this can be a little shifter of shape. "New symptoms sometimes appear well after the moment of infection, or they evolve over time and they can persist for months," said Fuci. "They can go with a slight embarrassing for actually quite incapacitating."
People can get the syndrome even if they had light cases of COVID who did not need hospitalization, "added Fuci. The brain fog is also a brand symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME / CFS), that Fauci said that PASC looks like. Say itCDC: "Most people with me / CFS have trouble thinking quickly, remembering things and paying attention to detail. Patients often say they have" brain fog "to describe this problem because they are Feel "stuck in a fog" and are not able to think clearly. "
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Many questions surround PASC / LONG COVID
"A bit alarming" is what Fuci called for a new study from the University of Washington, who found that 30% of people who had persistent symptoms for nine months after their initial illness. This study revealed that the five most common persistent symptoms were fatigue, smell loss or taste, headache, respiratory disorders and muscle or body pain.
Fuci said the NIH hopes to solve a number of mysteries on PASC. Among them: its underlying biological cause, why some people receive the syndrome and some do not do it, and if this increases the risk of permanent damage to the body, such as heart or brain disorders.
"It is very difficult to treat something when you do not know what the target of this treatment is", "said Fuci. "There are many important questions with this series of initiatives that we finally respond."
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