Due to Covid-19 smear test … brain fluid comes out of a woman

In the joke, health workers often describe “nasal cleansers” as tools to “scrape the brain”, or some might say sarcastically that they act as a “modification” of the brain, because workers in this field insert the tool deep into the nose.

It seems that this joke or prank came true when an Iowa woman in her forties with a skull defect began to leak brain fluid from her nose after performing a crown test with a nasal swab.

Shortly after going to a Covid-19 testing center, brain fluid began to drip profusely from the woman’s nose, her head began to hurt, and she became so nauseous that she was vomiting.

And she began to feel a stiffness in her head and neck, and began to savor the taste of metal in her mouth, prompting her to see the doctors, as the X-rays revealed a hole in the base of her skull.

Cerebrospinal fluid, a clear protective fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, was dripping from his nose, according to the British Daily Mail.

This is the first time that doctors have reported a concerning and potentially dangerous leak, due to intranasal coronavirus test scans.

But in the case report, released Thursday, doctors at the University of Iowa indicated that the swab alone did not cause the leak, that the woman had an undiagnosed skull defect, and when the swab pressed into the small hole , it was made wide enough for the fluid to flow out of the brain.

Notably, despite testing nearly 104 million Americans for the Corona virus, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shipped the first batch of Corona virus tests last February, this is the first. time such an infection occurs.

Most of the errors above boiled down to whether the virus was negative or positive, but no one had reported a health problem as a result of the test itself, at least until now.

Scans performed on the woman in 2017 showed that a congenital defect was already present and that the brain fluid leak occurred after the swab caused the pre-existing problem to regenerate.

It’s worth noting that testing for Covid-19 is currently performed using samples taken in one of three ways: through a nasopharyngeal swab, a lower (nostril) swab, or saliva that is collected in a test tube.

With the woman, he used the nasopharyngeal swab method, which doctors work on the distant upper parts of the nose, where the nasal passage connects to the throat and where there are layers of muscles and connective tissues, and then the hard bones of the skull. .