Chennai: Ever since the spread of Covid-19 affected multitudes of people across the globe, there is increasing identification of post-Corona long term health conditions.
Some if them are fibrotic lung, new onset diabetes, stroke, new onset epilepsy, psychological illness, easy clotting/thrombosis etc.
Post Covid care clinics were introduced in order to identify and treat such complications.
This being the current scenario, neurological issues of Covid can be effectively managed, says experts at Kauvery Hospital, claiming that they had recently treated a unique post-Covid illnesses.
An 18-year-old girl was diagnosed with Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) commonly known as an inflammation in the brain or spine. She had an imbalance while walking with giddiness and sensory changes in the left side of her body.
“Although the symptoms are similar to that of Multiple Sclerosis, she was diagnosed with ADEM, which usually occurs in an individual post viral infections. The patient’s family had tested positive for Covid several weeks before her admission, but she was asymptomatic then. SARS COV2 IgG antibody test in the girl was positive for past Covid-19,” explains Dr Sivarajan Thandeswaran, senior consultant – stroke and neurovascular medicine.
While this was seen in a younger individual, another was of a 69-year-old man who suffered from an acute onset of difficulty in speaking, confusion with fever, cold and severe intellectual difficulties similar to dementia. Both were treated at the hospital.