LCK In The News

"Some 95% of those surveyed experienced four or more health problems, according to testimony that is likely to alarm parents about the potential long-term effects of kids catching coronavirus.

It is the latest in a series of worrying revelations about long Covid and its impact on children – but evidence does suggest that young people are far less at risk from Covid-19 and the vast majority recovery fully and quickly if they catch it.

But only one in ten parents of the 510 young people surveyed said that their children had returned to previous levels of physical activity. Many also reported a ‘significant prevalence’ of neuropsychiatric symptoms."

"A year ago Isabel Walton competed in dance and gymnastics competitions and was learning martial arts. Now the ten-year-old from Doncaster has to be carried to bed each night as she is too weak to take the stairs.

She is one of more than 80,000 children in England thought to be suffering from debilitating symptoms related to long Covid. Parents are urging the government to set up specialist clinics to treat the “forgotten children” whose lives have been stalled by the virus."

"Christmas morning is one I will never forget. Sitting in A&E with my 16-year-old daughter, Liliana, whose long Covid symptoms had grown so bad she was in constant, excruciating pain and had vomited in the car all the way to the hospital, I hoped that finally something might be done to help her...."

"One year ago, Izzy Bolton was riding high. A 15-year-old athlete, runner and rider.

Now, there are days when she can barely walk.

She says: "In August I got really ill. I had pain everywhere. It was all up my legs. I had stabbing pains.

"If I used my arms, they'd burn. I would stammer and stutter, I couldn't get my words out properly. I couldn't walk because any time I put pressure on my feet the pain would shoot up."

"Recently published British data has caused worry. It suggests that 13 per cent of under-11s and about 15 per cent of 12- to 16-year-olds reported at least one symptom five weeks after a confirmed Covid-19 infection. The figures were gathered by the UK Office for National Statistics, which samples households randomly, meaning positive cases do not depend on having had symptoms and being tested."