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Rare But Harrowing : The Truth About Long Covid In Children
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Nice, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has recommended more research to produce guidance on how children and young people are affected and how they can be treated. However, there is no case definition of long Covid in children and young people in the way there is in adults.
In the absence of that definition and guidance, parents say they are being dismissed or regarded with suspicion by medical professionals over their childâs unexplained symptoms.
One of the problems, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, is that services for rehabilitating children seriously affected by, for example, chronic fatigue symptoms are âcompletely inadequateâ in many parts of the country.
‘It’s terrifying’: parents’ struggle to get help for children with long Covid Amelia Hill
On Christmas Day, Gail Jackson’s 16-year-old daughter said she was in so much pain she thought she would die. Liliana had been briefly admitted to hospital with Covid in September. Her symptoms never went away and, as time went on, new ones had emerged.
“For months she had a relentless, agonising headache, nausea, tinnitus, fatigue and insomnia, but the worst thing was the agonising nerve pain,” said Jackson. “I couldn’t even touch her without her screaming in pain.”
On Christmas morning, Jackson drove to hospital with her daughter vomiting from pain in the passenger seat. When they got to the hospital, however, the A&E doctor said there was no such thing as long Covid in children. “He said she just needed to go home and get on with her life,” Jackson said. “It was jaw-dropping.”
From savouring the soothing benefits of nature to the feel good factor of lending a helping hand to others, it’s been the simple things that have got many through the misery of lockdown. Now as concerns grow over impact of living through a pandemic, it appears they could be the very remedies prescribed by GPs to support our mental health. Rather than sending patients to the pharmacy for a bottle of pills to help tackle post-Covid mental health stresses and social issues such as isolation and bereavement, GPs are being urged to consider offering nature and ‘social prescribing’ as part of patients’ care.
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