Head of Department of Neurology, Health Sciences University Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Prof. Dr. In Ömer Karadaş's study published in international journals, headaches were detected at a rate of 30 percent in patients with coronavirus. Karadaş said,
"The coronavirus headache is a real headache and seems to be bilateral to a very large extent, around 90 percent."
Prof. Dr. Ömer Karadaş's study on the neurological findings of coronavirus was published in international journals and received an award.
Karadaş said that in the data they obtained within the scope of the study, they saw that there were many neurological findings such as headache in the coronavirus, epilepsy, cerebrovascular diseases, pain, smell and taste disorders.
Karadaş said, "In our study, we saw that headache was detected at a high rate of up to 30 percent, and we even know that the rate of patients, headache is the only finding, is too high.
CORONAVIRUS HEADACHE IS A TRUE PAIN
Prof. Dr. Karadaş said that coronavirus headache is different from normal headache. If we do not know the characteristics of the headache for Covid-19, if we confuse it with other headaches, this patient will still circulate in the community and cause the virus to spread.
The headache is a real headache and it is different. The compressive, some accompanying findings also make us differentiate.
What are These
Diarrhea, weight loss in the person, odor, It may be accompanied by taste perversion.
It can be confronted with resistant headaches that do not go away with medications.
Therefore, when we see such findings and data, we definitely need to consider the coronavirus, "he said.
Stating that coronavirus headache also has features similar to migraine, "Light sensitivity, sound and smell sensitivity can be situations that can be confused with migraine.
The fact that symptoms such as taking symptoms accompany even less pain will make us think that this is a headache associated with the coronavirus "used the expression.
HEADACHES CONTINUING FOR MONTHS
Prof. Dr. Reminding that his publication on coronavirus-induced headache was published in international journals,
"We also evaluated headaches, we made this an international publication. In fact, we saw different types of what we call coronavirus headache itself.
Some are very resistant, very painful; some of them are very resistant. We have seen that there is more lung involvement in very severe pain.
After 1 year, we now examine the patients with our experience. At the outpatient clinic, we see headaches after 3, 5, 6 months despite the coronavirus infection. In one group, we see headaches that started with coronavirus and continued for a very long time.
A group is also experiencing headaches with the coronavirus; but it does not continue.
We will give healthier rates and numbers of these in the upcoming period. Most of them can be treated and easily overcome, of course, these treatments are personalized, "he said.