'Paediatricians, GPs, and schools don’t understand childhood long covid'

'Paediatricians, GPs, and schools don’t understand childhood long covid'

Parents can find it difficult to get the right medical support, as it is not widely known that young people can develop the condition

NZ's Long Covid blind spot nothing short of a crisis

This week marks International Day of Immunology, with this year’s theme focusing on the connection between the brain and the immune system – a relationship crucial to understanding the impacts of post-acute infection syndromes like Long Covid, which is currently estimated to affect 400 million people.Cognitive dysfunction, sensory sensitivity, and nervous system abnormalities (which I often describe as ‘auto-pilot disruption’) are hallmark sympt…

DMZ – HEALTH ¦ Sarah Koller Long Covid – a disease that persists after a Covid-19 infection – affects not only adults, but also more children and adolescents. However, despite the growing number of people affected, Long Covid is often not recognized in young people, and many parents are struggling with the difficulty of obtaining the right medical support. The condition associated with a variety of symptoms, from chronic exhaustion to cognitive …