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Some COVID-19 patients develop severe mental problems. Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.
A form of inflammatory cell death called panoptosis triggers the storm of cytokines, or inflammatory proteins, that causes critical illness in COVID-19, researchers say. "During inflammatory cell death, cells spew out their contents instead of neatly packaging them away" as happens during routine cell death, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital told Reuters. "Neighboring cells see the cytokines released and the other unexpected debris as a sign of danger, and they can respond by secreting more cytokines, allowing the cytokine storm to build." Her team identified ...
29 Dec 2020, 10:34 Updated: 29 Dec 2020, 10:40 CORONAVIRUS patients are developing "severe psychotic symptoms", despite having never experienced mental health issues, doctors have warned. Patients who have survived the virus are now battling with hallucinations and delusional thinking just weeks after overcoming the deadly bug. 2 Coronavirus patients are now being faced with debilitating mental health issues Credit: Getty Images - Getty One doctor in New York said one of his patients kept seeing her young children being brutally murdered. Other patients said they lived in fear that their chil...
»'A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids': A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms 8-MIN READ 'A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids': A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms From left: Drs. Jonathan Komisar, Brian Kincaid and Colin Smith of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., Nov. 27, 2020. They treated a psychotic patient who had never experienced mental health problems before contracting the coronavirus. (Jeremy M. Lange/The New York Times) A small number of COVID patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing ...
Report details cases of severe psychosis in Covid patients in the UK and the US Psychotic symptoms are being seen in people with no prior psychiatric history One UK woman saw hospital staff as devils and 'washed her phone in the sink' Another US woman began carrying a knife and 'put hand sanitiser in her food' Australian experts have estimated psychosis affects up to 4% of Covid patients