Brain fog: how to identify and treat this coronavirus sequel

 

"Mental fog" due to COVID-19: these are cognitive symptoms, which may include memory loss, confusion, difficulty concentrating, dizziness and difficulty understanding everyday words.

An increasing number of COVID-19 survivors say it impairs their ability to work and live normally.

Specialists explain that these symptoms could be associated with a new sequel as a consequence of having contracted COVID-19, called “Mental Fog” or “Brain Fog”, in English. On the one hand, this sequel usually presents with some symptoms such as difficulties concentrating, understanding and finding words of everyday use, memory loss, disorientation and confusion. The crucial thing about the "mental fog" is that it affects all areas of development of the person, which becomes a limitation when studying, working and continuing to live "normally", after recovery from COVID-19.

Despite not having a clear and verifiable cause of this "mental fog" certain questions arise: What can be done to protect the brain against this? What recommendations are there to recover cognitive functionality?

In the first place, it is essential to evaluate the picture in a comprehensive way together with a professional to be able to identify these difficulties. It is important to be able to bring to light those weakest points, since with the appropriate support it is possible to rehabilitate, compensate, restore or optimize them.

Along these lines, Sebastian Spiguel (MN 68.673), INECO neuropsychologist and psychotherapist, explains: “These failures can impact both personally and in family relationships, with friends, in the work context, in social circles and in our relationship. with the rest. Regarding this, it is important to be aware of analyzing and measuring them through a complete cognitive evaluation, which will allow these difficulties to be objectively detected and thereby reduce anxieties, reduce doubts about the impact on daily life that they bring with them and facilitate the work of adapting to that situation ”.

Once the condition is defined, and if it is considered pertinent, an interdisciplinary process of rehabilitation can begin, including activities that can help reduce the impact of cognitive symptoms.