The symptoms felt by patients infected with COVID-19, and sick, can also appear at different periods of time after healing, and below you can see what the doctors say about this very serious problem.
"Covid-19: From headache, to stroke and to paralysis. Greater risk of reinfection.
"As time goes on, the symptoms become more and more diverse.
We learn together with the disease and with the sick, so in recent months we have seen several patients who have very severe and severe psychiatric symptoms in relation to the prolonged post-Covid phase. Also, cognitive disorders, long-term memory problems, possibly related to a more serious initial infection, in which it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish the effects of brain suffering related to hypoxia, low oxygen, from the effects that appear in the relationship with the persistence of symptoms of the long-COVID type.
In the hospital, we mainly see patients in the acute phase. We usually meet with vascular accidents in the context of the COVID infection, this is another side of the infection, especially in the acute phase of the disease. They are found even in young patients who did not have important risk factors for vascular disease.
What is very interesting is that they are not (not the neurological symptoms) necessarily related to the severity of the acute event. It goes well through the initial phase, after which I give something minor, a few days, which does not require hospitalization, and later develops a symptomatology related to the nervous system which is very difficult to distinguish, there are many symptoms, it is very difficult to say when they will go away . Sometimes they can last for months, sometimes they can change the state of health of the person concerned, without any return to the previous situation.
Reinfection does not mean that it is as easy. Sometimes, many people say that 'I already had an infection with SARS-CoV-2, it wasn't a big deal' and they tend to be less careful because they have been through the disease once and think that either the immunity is for life , even if I take it again, it is not a serious disease. And that doesn't always happen. Sometimes, at the next reinfection, more serious effects appear, effects in the central nervous system that remain persistent, such as those related to taste and smell or persistent headache or chronic fatigue that is very frequent and very difficult to combat.
In the same way, the events related to the body's immune response can be unexpected at the next infection and we can have vascular events even though they were not present the first time. The risk of neurological diseases may be higher in the case of reinfected people. It's not a rule, but it doesn't mean the next infection will go as easily." Dr. Ioana Mîndruță, primary neurologist, Central Military Emergency University Hospital "Dr. Carol Davila" from Bucharest."
