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"While some of the symptoms parents have reported in children are similar to adult long-Covid cases — headaches, extreme fatigue, difficulty concentrating or forming new memories, anxiety, depression, tachycardia, dysautonomia, lingering or recurrent fevers — others differ. Some parents in the long-Covid kids online group Sammie formed, for example, have been reporting frequent nosebleeds."

Discussing Long Covid in Children, our reality.

Nicola Haseler BBC

Parents need answers, and for that we need research.

Jessica Savage​

Most children who catch Covid have mild or even asymptomatic cases.

But that's small consolation to the parents who've seen their happy, healthy children completely debilitated for months with long Covid.

And with lockdown restrictions lifting this week, experts and parents fear more unvaccinated children across the country will be at greater risk of developing the harrowing illness.

Most children who catch Covid have mild or even asymptomatic cases.

But that's small consolation to the parents who've seen their happy, healthy children completely debilitated for months with long Covid.

And with lockdown restrictions lifting this week, experts and parents fear more unvaccinated children across the country will be at greater risk of developing the harrowing illness.

"It has, almost since the start of the pandemic, been the mantra of experts when it comes to Covid-19 and the threat it poses to children: they're more likely to get hit by a bus than suffer severely from the virus.

And so in April, when Lois Benson's two young sons developed a cough and a slight temperature, she was initially unconcerned. 'I just gave them Calpol,' says the 46-year-old air ambulance manager from Aldridge in the West Midlands. But Toby, seven, and Josh, six, went downhill rapidly."