Infections can affect your IQ!

LONDON: In addition to harming your physical heath, severe infections of any type can affect your mental capacity as measured on an intelligence quotient (IQ) scale, a new research has found.
The researchers found that infections in the brain affected the cognitive ability the most, but many other types of infections severe enough to require hospitalisation can also impair a patient’s cognitive ability.
“Our research shows a correlation between hospitalisation due to infection and impaired cognition corresponding to an IQ score of 1.76 lower than the average,” said senior researcher Michael Eriksen Benros from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anyone can suffer from an infection, for example in their stomach, urinary tract or skin and the results of this study suggests that a patient’s distress does not necessarily end once the infection has been treated.