How many children do you know have long Covid

[Baileysforchristmas]

Just wondering how many people on here have experience of children with long Covid?

There was an outbreak in my kids school a couple months ago. Most kids didnt even have symptoms or very mild. About 80 kids who had it and all of them fully recovered.

This is MN, it's 5 out of 10. Personally, however, I know none. It's post viral syndrome and has always been a 'thing'.

None, or adults.

According to a certain prolific poster: millions.

According to the real world: minuscule amounts

According to my personal experience of working in childcare and having friends and family in different childcare settings: none.

I don't even know any children who had symptoms other than a few who had very mild cold type symptoms.

It's worth remembering the definition of "long covid" is any symptoms which persist more than FOUR WEEKS. If we applied that definition to other viruses/ infections... how many people would have long colds, long coughs etc?

In other words... it's a lot of nonsense.

I'm sure it's awful for those who are affected just as post viral has always been, but turning this into a "thing" and blowing it wildly out of proportion is doing nobody, least of all those suffering with it, any favours at all.

None and all the covid cases I know in children were so mild they often didn't realise they had it.

My dd knows about 80 girls who have had Covid - from sixth form and social media. Of those, about 5 are still experiencing symptoms months later, mainly loss of taste/smell and tiredness.

@powershowerforanhour

None. My best friend in school was smitten for months with glandular fever as a young teenager- off school for weeks and weeks and feeling crap and bone tired for about half a year thereafter, but nobody really gives much of a toss about that.

But the op wasn't asking about glandular fever, was she? In any case, Covid is much more transmissible. Both are viruses that can have long-term effects.

None.

None.

I think that 'long covid' or post viral syndrome needs to be defined in severity before we can talk about numbers. Otherwise someone with mild long term symptoms is lumped together with someone who is unable to work or attend school.

None and no children who have definitely had Covid. I know 2 children who have Lyme disease but only Covid counts.

None

Then again I don’t know many who’ve tested positive, thinking about all the school age dc

I don’t know anyone who has long Covid.

Any child I know who had Covid had minimal symptoms and most were only picked up with close contact testing.

One. Which is as statistically irrelevant as if I had said 20, or none. But yes, my cousins son was debilitated for months after covid. It seemed particularly unfair as he was very athletic. But he'll get there back to his levels of fitness, he is young and in good underlying health

Surprisi

Totally agree

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None, and 5 of the 9 children in my family have had covid. No lasting effects for any of them

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In adults, it depends what you count as long covid. Two friends had quite bad cases, really poorly at home although no breathing issues. They still haven’t got proper taste & smell back to varying degrees.. they are otherwise completely fine. But they are both really irritated with it! As I would be too!

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My ds (17) came back from Italy with school February half term last year & within a week had the worst chest infection type thing that kept on partially clearing up & then returning, of course they didn't test anyone under 18 then but our GP put it down as Covid. Now struggles to do 5 part days in sixth form, goes to bed as soon as he gets home & is under the Chronic Fatigue clinic who also deal with teenage Long Covid.

Possibly my Dd, according to doctors. There wasn’t a test for it then. They tested her for everything but just knew it was an unidentified virus. She is still exhausted and has seizures regularly, over a year later. Previously a healthy 15 year old.

None.

In fact the only people I know who have had covid at all are NHS workers or people in hospital/hospice/care homes.

Not one of my family or friends have had it. And that’s a wide spread of people across six countries.

Perhaps we have been very lucky. I am certainly thankful. I felt so frightened at the beginning of it all.

www.longcovidkids.org/

My then 8 year old had covid in March 2020. It took her a good 6 weeks to have enough energy to play football / run around again. Weirdly she has also developed hayfever now, although I know that can start at any time for anybody. She also got her first verruca within days of coming down with covid, very odd as obviously we weren't going anywhere.

Very sorry to hear about some of these kids who have been so badly effected. It doesn't matter if it's only 1 in a million, it is absolutely pants if it happens to someone you love.

I have 2 children. 1 high school. 1 primary. High school child has 3 friends who have tested positive, one of whom was unwell for several months. So for me-33.3% of people under 15 who tested positive had long covid. Totally not representative.