Category: COVID-19

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COVID-19 : Elders May Have Different Symptoms

Older adults with COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, have several “atypical” symptoms, complicating efforts to ensure they get timely and appropriate treatment, according to physicians.

COVID-19 is typically signaled by three symptoms: a fever, an insistent cough and shortness of breath. But older adults — the age group most at risk of severe complications or death from this condition ― may have none of these characteristics.

Instead, seniors may seem “off” — not acting like themselves ― early on after being infected by the coronavirus. They may sleep more than usual or stop eating. They may seem unusually apathetic or confused, losing orientation to their surroundings. They may become dizzy and fall. Sometimes, seniors stop speaking or simply collapse.

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COVID-19 : Guidance on ‘Vulnerable Subgroup’ With Diabetes

An international panel of diabetes experts has published practical recommendations for managing diabetes in patients with COVID-19 both in and out of the hospital setting.

The aim, they say, is to emphasize “the multiple challenges” healthcare professionals “from practitioners to intensive care staff might face in the management of…this vulnerable subgroup…of patients with diabetes…at risk of, or with, COVID-19.”

The recommendations were published online April 23 as a “personal view” in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology by a 19-member panel led by Stefan R. Bornstein, MD, of the Helmholtz Center Munich and Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

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