Study Finds New COVID-19 Symptoms That Young Adults May Experience

Each time health experts describe COVID-19 as a "sophisticated pathogen," they are mainly remarking on the illness's ability to disregard analysis conducted before.

Even though alarming, previous studies indicated, "The SARS epidemic of the early oughts," not to mention, the MERS outbreaks that took place a decade after, shared fundamental features and appearances.

These are characteristics proven to be very vital to diagnosis. Being a change or alteration, COVID-19 specifically, staffing the present pandemic, has established the so-called "ill-defined symptomatology" among many people.

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Young People No Longer Safe

Initially, young people are perceived to be safe from severe appearances of COVID-19. But now, according to health reports, they are more commonly experiencing unusual "prodromes" of the infectious disease such as neuropathies.

Neuropathies would include loss of smell and taste and shaking. Notably, youths today less frequently experience the characteristics known to be instructive of the said virus-like fever, for one.

Early this week, health news sites reported, scientists and medical professionals currently studying COVID-19 are still attempting to identify what's making some people very ill while others are experiencing a quite less severe infection.

In new research recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, scientists studied a sample of "8,400 men and women" aged 18 and 25 years old employing data that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected.

Other Newly Discovered Symptoms

From the said group representing a cross-section of young adults in the United States, the researchers found, "33 percent of men and 30 percent of females" were considered at risk of experiencing severe COVID-19. 

Additionally, study authors also included risk factors identified by the CDC as added threats for more severe cases. These, the health agency specified, include heart conditions, asthma, immune conditions like lupus for one, diabetes, other liver conditions, smoking, which includes the use of e-cigarette and obesity within the past 30 days.

Cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes, in particular, the CDC said, have all been unfavorably linked to the role of immune and respiratory systems.

Throughout this global health crisis, the risk to young individuals has, at times, been sufficiently emphasized. Even though most deaths, due to the pandemic, have happened in older people, youngsters, according to these new findings, are "in no way protected from the experience of severe COVID-19 cases."

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Migraines and Headaches Linked to COVID-19 Symptoms 

The previous series of data published after the pandemic penetrated the US found that just one-third of people with COVID-19 are developing "neurological symptoms." According to most recent studies, the "latest indicator disproportionately found in young individuals is migraines."

Headaches and migraines, as identified by the CDC, may be typical. Still, a group of patients below 40 years of age has been presenting "throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation" on their head to exclude other dangerous and severe symptoms.

Accompanying migraines and headaches as new symptoms in young adults for COVID-19 include sensitivity to brightness or light, nausea, and over fatigue. 

According to the Nashville Health Systems, fever has proven to be a typical symptom among older individuals via a media release.

The said health agency added, "Phones kept on ringing off the hook" with younger patients of COVID-19 and weakening migraines, something they, as health experts have not found yet a medication that's effective.

Lastly, it remains unknown if migraines and headaches are accompanying transmission of COVID-19 express distinctive pathologies. Nevertheless, the cause is a possible infection.

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