Hyderabad: City neurologist has found Covid-19 triggers cognition problems in restored patients.
These problems are considered even in people who have mild or moderate infections of the pandemic virus.
Although there was no official data about the percentage of Covid-19 patients in Hyderabad who suffered the problem of cognition relationships even after recovery, various research studies at the international level revealed that one of the four-to-restored cognitive patients reported several or other cognitive problems.
Brain-related damage ranges from difficulties in memory, telephone and verbal smoothness, calculation and confusion in many cases until severe brain damage in a few examples.
Senior Neurosurgeon Dr P Ranganadham from Sunshine Hospitals, Gachibowli tells the Toi that more evidence now appears that Covid-19 touches the brain and hard nervous system.
The faculty of cognition is influenced in mild and severe infections.
“Cognitive skills play an important role in thinking, reading, learning, maintaining information, paying attention to solving problems, making decisions and remembering tasks to be maintained,” said Dr.
Ranganadham added that he had found many cases of cognition problems in patients who had recovered from Covid- 19 In three waves that stretched for two years.
Dr.
Ranganadham said it was previously believed that only patients, who were hospitalized and were supported by oxygen or ventilation, had cognition problems.
But now the problem is felt in all age groups regardless of tenderness or infection.
Brain scan reports reveal the loss of significant gray material in the left hemisphere that headquarters for memory, emotions and reasoning, “he said.
Dr.
Shivaram Rao K, Consultant Neuro Doctor, Yashoda Hospital, Hyderabad, said that he had seen many people with Various neurological problems ranging from trivial complications to very severe such as memory loss, brain fog, lack of concentration, stroke, chronic fatigue and seizures.
Brain involvement in Covid-19 is a multi-branch.
According to Dr.
Deepika Sirineni, a senior consultant Doctor Neuro, Hospital Apollo, Hyderguda, nearly 30% of Covid-19 patients have the same neurological and psychiatric symptoms that include the loss of flavor and odor, headaches, seizures, and paralysis.
Pending neurological sequeles include the Guillain Barre Syndrome which causes neural weakness and decrease in concentration.
HYD: ‘Post Covid, 1 of 4 patients reported cognition problems’
