An Iowa woman around age 40s began to leak brain fluid from her own nose after getting a COVID-19 swab test according to a new case report. Some time shortly after her first COVID-19 test, the woman's own nose started to drip profusely and her head even started to hurt as she started to become nauseous and began vomiting.
When both her neck and head started to become stiff and she finally tasted metal, the woman saw a doctor where the scans indicated that there was now a hole at the very base of her skull! Certain cerebrospinal fluid, a type of protective clear liquid that actually surrounds both the brain and spinal cord, started to drip from her own nose. This is the first case that doctors have actually reported an alarming and also potentially damaging leak that was triggered by the known coronavirus swab testing.
A case report stated that there was already a problem
A certain case report that was published on Thursday, it stated that the University of Iowa doctors certainly noted that the woman's swab test alone was not 100% responsible for the leak. It was stated that the woman already had an undiagnosed skull defect, and also when the small opening was then prodded by the swab itself, it actually became wide enough for the certain brain fluid to start to seep out.
About 104 million Americans have already been tested for the known coronavirus ever since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention otherwise known as the CDC started to ship out the very first batch of "flawed" (according to an article from Daily Mail) coronavirus tests previously on February.
During that time, there were over seven million people that have actually tested positive for the known coronavirus. A certain estimate shows below 5% of these people actually received a false positive and also others have actually just received a false negative as well.
Even the officials advised AGAINST getting tested
When kits started to get scarce and the whole city shortly became overrun with coronavirus cases, New York officials then advised against actually getting tested for the COVID-19 virus unless the person clearly had the symptoms as well as a fairly definitive exposure. These were both to preserve certain kits and also for the fear that people might actually get infected with the coronavirus on the very site that they get tested on.
Despite the previous reports, there were no reports of a case like this, until this moment. The woman chose to remain anonymous and was previously scheduled to have a surgery in order to repair her hernia back in July of this year. By then, certain non-emergency and also elective surgeries had already resumed all across the US, but this meant that the hospital still required everyone to get a COVID-19 test before the operations could start, in order to be able to protect the doctors, nurses, and also the whole health care system itself from the outbreaks of the dreaded coronavirus.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
