The same receptors that the virus uses to get into lung cells are on brain cells and muscle cells and the cells in your sinuses. "But the virus can attack and infect any cell. "The main symptoms you get from COVID-19 tend to be pulmonary, like cough or difficulty breathing," says Dr. They're more likely to develop any complication, including neurological. People with certain medical conditions usually have a rougher time with COVID-19. Like a tornado, COVID-19 can affect one person quite severely and another person not at all." But no matter how much you prepare, you're never really ready if it strikes you."
You can prepare for it as much as you possibly can. "I liken the neurological complications of COVID-19 to a tornado," says Dr. But it's rare to have a direct infection of the brain itself." Who is more likely to experience brain dysfunction? Or the inability to form clots, which causes a hemorrhage and provokes a seizure. "Permanent brain damage is more often a result of what the virus is doing in general to the body, like a blood clot that causes a stroke. "These are all overwhelmingly preventable by receiving an extremely safe vaccine." Some of them lead to severe neurological disease," says Thomas Scott Diesing, MD, Nebraska Medicine neurologist. "Or it can be permanent – from direct inflammation in the brain, to hemorrhaging and seizures." "There are frequently neurological complications of COVID-19 infections. "Brain dysfunction can be temporary, like delirium, which is very common in hospitalized COVID-19 patients," Dr.
"Depending on how it's defined, between 40% and 80% of symptomatic COVID-19 patients have a neurologic complication."īut brain dysfunction covers a wide range of issues. "Brain dysfunction after COVID-19 infection is quite common," says neurologist Thomas Scott Diesing, MD. What neurologists are seeing in clinics and hospitals, however, is cause for concern. And then you layer on the effects of a new – and constantly changing – transmissible virus. The brain is a complicated organ to understand in the best of times.
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