LCK In The News
August 27, 2023
Salon
Long COVID is debilitating children. Doctors worry there aren’t enough centers to treat them
Jack is one of thousands of children who have been diagnosed with Long Covid. It took one month after Jack's diagnosis to get an appointment at the Boston Children's Hospital's long COVID clinic, and another seven months until he could meet with a neurologist.
"He's not just tired, it is flat out, we can't wake him up."
Long COVID symptoms include severe fatigue, malaise, headaches and other neurological symptoms like brain fog, as well as nausea, decreased appetite, weight loss, joint pain and loss of smell and taste. Symptoms emerge in the three months after infection and last anywhere from a couple of months to years.
July 27, 2023
RTE
Dublin mother says Long Covid has had 'devastating impact'
Natalie Kilbane from Clarehall has three children and two have developed Long Covid. One of them Lara developed Covid-19 three years ago. Since then, she has suffered a range of symptoms of Long Covid.
These include headaches, spiking temperatures, nausea and profound exhaustion. She also has joint pain.
"She has never recovered and it has had a devastating impact on her life and on family life," she added.
July 23,2023
The Express
‘I was one of the first children to get long Covid and I’m still not better’
Indiana has been unwell since an infection in March 2023. She told the Express that while her symptoms have died down, the fatigue she suffers still continues and long Covid continues to impact her education.
July 17, 2023
Daily Mail
Are tiny blood clots the real cause of Long Covid? Cutting-edge research suggests this may be the answer to the condition that's left up to half of young victims bedridden or, like Samir, in a wheelchair
Less than six months after recovering from the infection in September 2021 — which caused fever, severe chest pain and fatigue — Samir was confined to a wheelchair with long Covid symptoms.
‘I don’t remember a day without pain,’ Samir, 13, told Good Health in a voice heavy with fatigue.
The newspaper reports that while Britain led the world in developing vaccines and treatment for acute Covid, it seems research into long Covid has been left behind.
July 11th 2023
Belfast Telegraph
Dad whose teen daughter is battling Long Covid says it’s changed all their lives
'Rosie has not given up and is fighting for young people to be heard'
Her symptoms include muscle and joint pain, shortness of breath, cognitive dysfunction, hair loss, appalling insomnia, overwhelming exhaustion which is not fixed by sleep, tachycardia and dizziness. They continue to flare up and there is no real improvement 20 months post Covid.