Brain Degeneration: 19-Year-Old Woman Diagnosed with Dementia After Recovering from COVID-19

Dementia tends to be younger. There is even a 19-year-old girl in the United States who suffers from dementia. She began to suffer from memory loss years ago, and gradually forgot about her family and friends. At first, her mother thought it was just a sequela of the new crown, which was caused by brain fog. In the end, she went to the doctor and it was confirmed that it was brain degeneration.

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According to comprehensive foreign media reports, Gianna Cabo, a 19-year-old woman from McKinney, Texas, was infected with new coronary pneumonia in June 2020. Since then, her memory has begun to decline, and her academic performance has changed from a gifted student to a “bottom”; in life, she Gradually forgetting childhood memories, and began to alienate family and friends, and then began to forget how to do some simple household chores, such as not knowing how to use a can opener.

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Mother Rebecca once thought that her daughter’s condition was caused by the sequelae of the new crown and mental stress, which made her suffer from brain fog symptoms and become forgetful, so she began to take antidepressants since June 2021, and then began to receive psychological counseling, but her condition continued. deterioration.

By November 2022, Gianna went to see a doctor, but at the age of 19, she was confirmed to be suffering from dementia. The mother was shocked and unbelievable by this, but the reality is that her daughter’s memory is almost completely lost, and even her family is forgotten.

“No matter what you ask her, she just says nonchalantly ‘I don’t remember.’ When I asked her recently what was the happiest moment in her life, she just responded with a confused look of ‘I don’t remember.'”

Because the two mothers and daughters had a serious car accident in 2019, Gianna suffered a concussion and injured her cervical spine at that time, and she also experienced psychological problems after that, which may be related to this illness. Although the condition has not improved, the mother stated that she would not give up her daughter and would continue to try to find new treatments. She also hopes to use her daughter’s situation to raise public awareness of dementia and remind the public that it does not only occur after the age of 65.

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Written by: Zheng Tingyin