Latest research indicates headaches, loss of sense, smell and taste, and seizures can be neurological symptoms of Covid-19. The review research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says that SARS-CoV-2 patients have been complaining of headache, stroke, and impairment of consciousness. The virus is believed to hit the central nervous system of the body.
Research by the British Rhinological Society suggests that Covid-19 can lead to a loss of smell and taste. The researchers cited an earlier research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and claimed that the neurological symptoms reported in 49 of the study's 58 patients, included confusion and brain damage or encephalopathy.
It is also believed that the virus impacts white blood cells in the body too. Based on studies of MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-1, scientists said the novel coronavirus may enter the nervous system by several routes, including via junction of infected neurons and via the olfactory nerves connecting the nose and the brain, involved in producing the sense of smell. The virus spreads in the body by impacting the inner walls of the blood vessels. These blood vessels also reach the brain by infecting immune cells called leukocytes.
The most common neurological complaints in Covid-19 are the loss of sense of smell and taste, headache, stroke, impairment of consciousness, seizure, and brain damage.
