Up to 5.8 million young people have long COVID, according to a recent study. Parents are looking for answers as their children continue to experience symptoms. The variability of symptoms in children makes tracking the illness challenging.
Up to 5.8 million young people have long COVID, according to a recent study — and parents like Amanda Goodhart are looking for answers. She says her 6-year old son Logan caught COVID multiple times. But even months later, his symptoms didn't get better.'To see him struggle to stay awake, or crying and saying he doesn't feel good, it's heartbreaking, it's demoralizing, because there's not a lot of treatment options ,' she told CBS News. Study author Dr.
Rachel Gross of NYU's Grossman School of Medicine says one major challenge in tracking the illness is that symptoms can vary.'Long COVID can look different in different children, that not everybody has the same symptoms and that it can look different depending on when the symptoms start,' she says.Some common long COVID symptoms in kids include: HeadacheLoss of taste and smellBrain fogPainLogan has also been dealing with circulatory and gastrointestinal problems, and he gets tired even from things like standing in lin
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