Here's how your brain Covid Invades
Coronavirus can cause lasting neurological symptoms. Scientists may have understood how.
One of the most mysterious and alarming consequences ofCOVID-19 [Feminine is theNeurological damage The virus can cause. Some of those infected with the coronavirus novel reported a wide variety of symptoms based on brain, headache and dizziness with delirium and depression. Doctors likeDr. Mary Fowkes, a neuropathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, "" significant "blood clots have been discovered in the brain.
The question of experts, naturally, how and why it happens. A new study has a possible answer. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
A road to the brain
Originally, scientists have theorined that the new coronavirus directly attacked the brain. Some studies have suggested that this may not be the case, that Covid-19 affects some neurons instead of the brain itself.
New search published Monday in the newspaperNeuroscientiste In principle poses a potential route of the virus to the brain: by the nose.
Analyzing the autopsides of the deceased by COVID-19, the researchers of Berlin found that the virus was evident in nerve terminations deeply in the nasal passages ", where the throat responds to the nasal cavity and where the receptors of odors and the perceptual cells converge ",New York Times said.
From there, the virus can invade the nervous system via a nasal tissue which is in close contact with the neurological network of the body, the scientists pose.
The virus can be"Capable of using the olfactory mucosa as an entrance port in the brain," said Dr. Frank Heppner, neuropathologist at Charity-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin and a co-author of the study.
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'Long Covid' can linger in your head without rent
Several studies have shown that coronavirus can have long-term neurological effects.A study published in AugustLancet Discovered that 55% of those diagnosed with coronaviruses reported neurological symptoms three months after their diagnosis, including confusion, brain fog, an inability to focus, personality changes, insomnia and loss of taste. or loss of taste.
In July, London University College researchers said the coronavirus could cause "an epidemic of brain damage", referring to a similar phenomenon after the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was also caused by a coronavirus.
As for yourself, do everything you can to prevent you from installing and spread-Covid-19 in the first place:Carry a face maskBe tested if you think you have coronavirus, avoid crowds (and bars and evenings of the house), practice social distance, do only run essential races, wash your hands regularly, disinfect frequently affected areas and to cross this healthiest pandemic, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.