Long COVID in children isn’t common—but can be debilitating for those it affects. Here's what you need to know.
, his only symptoms were constant burping and about three days of diarrhea. In fact, his family, who lived in B.C. at the time, would have thought nothing of his brief illness if it weren’t for his sister’s high fever and cough, his mom’s horrible wet cough and the fact that the World Health Organization had just called COVID-19 a global pandemic.
day in May, when he suddenly collapsed while mowing the lawn. “His legs were too weak and we had to carry him into the house,” recalls his mother, who now lives in Alberta. That night he experienced chest pain and strange heat sensations throughout his chest and torso, which he described as his insides “sparking up” with the heat. His mom says that over the next week he started vomiting, got severe headaches and dizziness and his toes turned purple and sore.
Some long-haul kids continue to have symptoms from the time they first get infected. Other kids seem to get better but within several weeks a wide range of physical or neurological symptoms set in. According to information reported by members of Long Covid Kids Canada, the symptoms among Canadian children run the gamut from fatigue, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, reflux, nausea and vomiting, joint and muscle pain, brain fog or dizziness, rashes, mood changes and chest pain.
Although it’s unknown whether those with persisting symptoms will eventually get better, both Buonsenso and Nguyen are cautiously optimistic. Buonsenso believes that large public interest in COVID will lead to more research and a better understanding of long COVID, including treatments. He also says that preliminary evidence suggests that inflammation or viral persistence could be causing lingering symptoms in most children.
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