Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest?

We report the case of potential Dysphania ambrosioides (Silverweed) intoxication in the context of SARS-COV-2 infection in a patient admitted for delirium with Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 13/15. This herb was used as an antipyretic to treat COVID-19 persistent fever. The clinical presentation of our...

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Autores principales: Hazim, Asmaa, Bakkali, Fadil, Lhassani, Sara, El Aidaoui, Karim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659986
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17775
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description We report the case of potential Dysphania ambrosioides (Silverweed) intoxication in the context of SARS-COV-2 infection in a patient admitted for delirium with Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 13/15. This herb was used as an antipyretic to treat COVID-19 persistent fever. The clinical presentation of our patient raised several questions related to the viral or herbal intoxication origin of the confusion syndrome. To our knowledge, this is the first description of toxic encephalopathy after D. ambrosioides ingestionin an adult patient. 
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spelling pubmed-84944872021-10-14 Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest? Hazim, Asmaa Bakkali, Fadil Lhassani, Sara El Aidaoui, Karim Cureus Neurology We report the case of potential Dysphania ambrosioides (Silverweed) intoxication in the context of SARS-COV-2 infection in a patient admitted for delirium with Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 13/15. This herb was used as an antipyretic to treat COVID-19 persistent fever. The clinical presentation of our patient raised several questions related to the viral or herbal intoxication origin of the confusion syndrome. To our knowledge, this is the first description of toxic encephalopathy after D. ambrosioides ingestionin an adult patient.  Cureus 2021-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8494487/ /pubmed/34659986 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17775 Text en Copyright © 2021, Hazim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest?
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title_fullStr Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest?
title_full_unstemmed Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest?
title_short Confusion Syndrome During COVID-19: The “Herb” That Hides the Forest?
title_sort confusion syndrome during covid-19: the “herb” that hides the forest?
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494487/
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