{"id":12494,"date":"2021-05-25T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T12:59:55","slug":"covid-19-cause-of-insomnia-and-disturbed-cognitive-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/covid-19-cause-of-insomnia-and-disturbed-cognitive-function\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19\u2014Cause of Insomnia &#038; Disturbed Cognitive Function?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A specialist clinic in the UAE revealed that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some COVID-19 patients could <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/uae\/health\/brain-fog-and-insomnia-common-in-covid-long-haulers-1.1224537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">face long-term side effects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such as brain fog and insomnia.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Around <\/span><b>33% of COVID-19 patients don\u2019t simply recover<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when the virus has left their system. Instead, they are what this clinic refers to as \u201clong-haulers.\u201d Meaning, they continue to have symptoms long after the two-week period had elapsed, when they are no longer contagious.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the regular symptoms of COVID-19, which include a dry cough, fever, sore throat, headaches, breathing issues, and fatigue, a third of all patients suffer from long-term problems. For instance, cognitive fatigue (or \u201cbrain fog\u201d) and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">insomnia symptoms<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are <\/span><b>the two most prominent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> among COVID-19 long-haulers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For months after being diagnosed with the virus that caused a global pandemic, patients struggle with <\/span><b>poor sleep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>exhaustion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><b> and mental fatigue<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; severely affecting the daily lives of these people. Hence, they most commonly struggle with decision-making, alertness, and productivity during this period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, treating insomnia can be exceptionally difficult. While some resort to using some of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/best-natural-sleep-aid\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best natural sleep aids<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help ease them into sleep, others may have to rely on prescription drugs (sleeping pills), which may have their own<\/span><b> side effects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And these side effects will certainly not help with the brain fog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if treating insomnia wasn\u2019t difficult enough, <\/span><b>dealing with brain fog is nigh impossible<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There are some prescription medications on the market that can help make a person more alert. However, these don\u2019t always work for people and they bring their own problems (side effects) to the table yet again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialist clinic in the UAE revealed that some COVID-19 patients could face long-term side effects such as brain fog and insomnia. Around 33% of COVID-19 patients don\u2019t simply recover when the virus has left their system. Instead, they are what this clinic refers to as \u201clong-haulers.\u201d Meaning, they continue to have symptoms long after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}