There have been several symptoms that according to experts denote the contagion with coronavirus: fever, dry cough and tiredness (the most common); aches and pains, sore throat, diarrhea, conjunctivitis, headache, loss of sense of smell and / or taste, rashes, and discoloration of the fingers or toes (the least common), and difficulty breathing or feeling short of breath, chest pain or pressure, and an inability to speak or move (the bass).
But the case of a healthy 44-year-old British woman, mother of four who worked for a peraja of retired doctors, raises many questions about it.
Rebecca Wrixon she had no breathing difficulties, no cough, no fever. He also did not lose his sense of taste or smell and did not belong to the risk category. But he got sick of covid-19 and he almost died. One day last April he woke up with a numb arm, then he felt a leg and couldn’t speak, and then his brain was very swollen. It was thought that he suffered from a stroke, but after the rigorous examinations that diagnosis was rejected and the doctors discovered that he had coronavirus.
She told CBS News that after the numbness of the arm it was difficult for him to operate the television remote control and he could not feel his leg either. He went to Southampton University Hospital, where after ruling out a cerebrovascular accident, she underwent a routine PCR test and she tested positive, to the surprise of those who attended her.
“I could not answer. I had no idea what was happening to me. It was then that we thought she was having a stroke. ”, said Rebecca Wrixon, who at the time could no longer move half of his body.
She was also unable to see clearly or communicate with the doctors and her husband. Neurologists did not understand what was happening to him and why this reaction of the organism was due. And she thought she was going to die.
A doctor recalled the case of a patient in the United States whose autoimmune response to a covid-19 infection had caused similar and also severe inflammation of the brain, and he began treating her with steroids and blood plasma, which worked.
After overcoming a serious condition, she was discharged two weeks after entering the hospital, and now she continues to have pain and numbness in her hand, and it is sometimes difficult to speak.
It is not known how long these effects will last in it, caused by the coronavirus and which unexpectedly referred to a diagnosis associated with neurological damage, but not to what was known about the covid-19.
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