Do you know COVID-19 may also affect the central nervous system?
Do you know COVID-19 may also affect the central nervous system? COVID-19 is belongs to large family of viral and infectious diseases with the symptoms of cough, shortness of breath, fever, joint pains. The symptoms of COVID-19 related to neurological include dizziness, headache, loss of weight and loss the control of muscle. Once the virus is entered into central nervous system, they tend to release the proteins called cytokines. This causes the swelling in the central nervous system and affects the blood-brain barrier. Corona virus can enter by the central nervous system through a porous bone in the nasal cavity. In this we may loss smell or taste as we usually experienced in COVID-19. If the patient knows that he was affected with COVID-19 they may get panic. It may cause large degree of psychological distress to that patient. Some studies state that few of the symptoms of the psychological distress are depressed mood and anxiety these are also the symptoms for central nervous ...