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Which corona symptom is often overlooked: researchers issue a warning

2022-01-25T12:58:57.304Z


Which corona symptom is often overlooked: researchers issue a warning Created: 2022-01-25Updated: 2022-01-25 13:54 By: Juliane Gutmann The treatment of corona patients is a challenge for clinical staff worldwide. In the case of already frail older people with previous illnesses, Corona can manifest itself through atypical symptoms. © Alvaro Barrientos/dpa Cough, rash to confusion: Corona can b


Which corona symptom is often overlooked: researchers issue a warning

Created: 2022-01-25Updated: 2022-01-25 13:54

By: Juliane Gutmann

The treatment of corona patients is a challenge for clinical staff worldwide.

In the case of already frail older people with previous illnesses, Corona can manifest itself through atypical symptoms.

© Alvaro Barrientos/dpa

Cough, rash to confusion: Corona can bring a number of symptoms with it.

According to researchers, a sign is misinterpreted, especially in older people.

If corona viruses penetrate the body, it can react with various symptoms. These include harmless cold symptoms such as cough, runny nose and sore throat. In severe cases, however, serious nerve and intestinal damage, including pulmonary embolism, can also occur.

The risk of complications drops significantly after full vaccination, including booster immunization

, according to health authorities such as the Robert Koch Institute. According to researchers, anyone who has also had corona colds is even better protected against infection and a serious course of the disease*.

Where young people with a strong immune system usually only get mildly ill with corona, the risk of a severe course of the disease increases with age. “In the majority of infections, Covid-19 is mild.

The probability of severe and even fatal disease progression increases with age and with existing previous illnesses

," informs the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the leading biomedical research institution of the German federal government. Early medical treatment is important, because in the early stages of the disease, improvement can be achieved in some cases with antiviral therapy, for example.

But in older, already frail people,

corona symptoms

can easily be overlooked

, a British research team warns.

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Corona symptoms: Increased delirium in elderly and frail patients

"

This is the first study showing an increased incidence of delirium as a Covid-19 symptom in older frail adults compared to other older adults,

" said researchers led by Maria Beatrice Zazzara, Rose S. Penfold and Amy L. Roberts from the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London.

In their study, which was published in the journal

Age and Aging

, the research team examined how corona can manifest itself in older, weakened people.

A significantly increased rate of delirium, also known as delirium, was noticeable.

This is an acute disturbance of consciousness, which can be accompanied by disorientation, confusion and hallucinations, among other things.

The study analyzed data from 322 hospital patients aged 65 and over.

They were treated as inpatients between March 1, 2020 and May 5, 2020.

The data was compared with 535 over-65-year-old subjects from the British Covid Symptom Study.

These tested positive for Corona between March 24th and May 8th, 2020.

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“After age matching, delirium was identified in 40 (38 percent) of the frail and 13 (12 percent) of the non-frail patients with COVID-19.

Frailty (...) was found to be a significant predictor of delirium.

For other symptoms (fever (temperature above 37.5°C) and cough) there were no significant differences between frail and non-frail individuals,” the study said.

Frailty was therefore associated with a significantly increased risk of delirium in patients with corona infection

.

According to the researchers, this was often the only corona symptom in this group.

Against this background, the researchers recommend that doctors, clinic staff and relatives should pay particular attention to changes in the mental state of very weak people and delirium symptoms such as confusion, sleep disorders, psychomotor restlessness with a strong urge to move and bed escape as well as exaggerated cheerfulness and/or unfounded fear

as possible Corona symptoms * should be taken seriously

- even if they are not accompanied by typical Covid signs such as cough and fever.

(jg) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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