Children get long COVID, too, and it can show up in unexpected ways

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Children get long COVID, too, and it can show up in unexpected ways
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Almost 13 million children in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Studies suggest that between two and 10 per cent of those children will develop long COVID, but the number may be larger.

suggest that between 2% and 10% of those children will develop long COVID, but the number may be larger. Many parents may not know their child has long COVID, or the child's pediatrician hasn't recognized it as such."I personally believe that this is a very much an undiagnosed issue," said, who helps lead a long COVID pediatric clinic at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

His pulmonary function test and EKG came back normal. "The Covid clinic said this is very common in kids with long COVID. Sometimes, all the tests come back normal," Kim Ford said., who runs the pediatric long COVID clinic at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, agreed that it happens a lot.

Another group has stomach problems. A lot of these kids also have a change in their sense of taste and smell. "We've been trying to bump him up to six, but it hasn't worked so far," Kim Ford said. "He's woken up pretty miserable the next day." "I don't want to be too critical, but there are some doctors out there who just dismiss it outright," said, director of the post-COVID clinic at Children's National in Washington. "The kids then just struggle. They get passed around from place to place."

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