TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The “brain fog” of long COVID might be due to impaired lung function following a person’s infection, a new small-scale study says. Reduced gas exchange in the lungs – oxygen coming in, carbon dioxide going out -- appears to be associate...
"It may be possible that existing drugs may be used to treat the brain fog that affects a significant portion of people experiencing long-COVID having been infected with SARS-CoV-2," he said. Speaking to Xinhua on Thursday, Reynolds said there had been an "enormous amount of research" int...
Brain fog suffered by those with long COVID could be caused by leaky blood vessels, new research shows. Scientists hold that catching coronavirus caused disruption in the blood-brain barrier of some victims, which they suggested could cause the cognitive issues seen in those battling the c...
One of the most common symptoms of long COVID is the mental impairment known as brain fog. Brain fog sufferers have difficulty thinking and processing information. New research published in July in the journal Cell has found many similarities between long COVID brain fog and the “chemo brain...
According to Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, about 8 million people suffer from complications of long COVID, which can include a fast heart rate, brain fog and chronic shortness of breath that persist months after initial infection. ...
These accelerations in aging were also found in other organs like the heart and brain. As to why this happens in certain age groups or men or women, Dr. Al-Aly said more data is needed. He explained that we need to rethink how we view COVID-19: It’s not a respiratory illness...
Long COVID manifests in a wide variety of symptoms, including cough, fatigue, muscle weakness, cognitive impairment, shortness of breath, and chest pain. In fact, current literature indicates that long COVID has effects throughout every major organ system. Within t...
For most people withCOVID-19, they feel better within days or weeks, but some can have symptoms for longer than three months. Fatigue, brain fog, chest pain and shortness of breath are reported as symptoms by those who have long COVID - which is officially known as post-acute sequelae ...
(in whom respiratory symptoms almost always dominated), and more people referred by their general practitioners or other secondary care specialties who had not been hospitalized for their acute covid-19 infection, and in whom fatigue, brain fog and palpitations were often the most troubling symptoms...
Millions worldwide are estimated to suffer from long COVID, in which a range of symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue and brain fog last long after patients first contracted the virus. Yet much about the condition, including exactly how COVID causes such a wide range of symptoms, ...