Long Covid at Kids: The new mono?
The connections are worth exploring.
In August 2021, the American Academy of Pediatricsreported Nearly 4.3 million children have been tested positive forCOVID-19 [Feminine since the appearance of the pandemic. The Delta variant added nearly 94,000 cases during the first week of August 2021, with a reported mortality rate ranging from 0.00 to 0.03%.1Although it is relief to see mortality rates are low in children, another problem problem. Up to 15% of infected young people could developCap, after being infected and absamples of recovery of the virus.2As if the last two school years did not have enough difficulty for children, this new chronic health problem presents an uncertain future of potential mental and physical concerns.
The increasing attention on Long Covid has so far focused on the millions of adults who are still struggling to return life as being affected. What we know now is that the debilitating symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, brain fog, memory, sleep disturbances, change during smell and taste also affect children .3Whatsmore, older children and adolescents can suffer even more about long-term problems along the virus, similar to autoimmune diseases, higher hormones can also trigger immune responses. Read more - and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseSure sign that you have "Long" Covid and may even know.
Considering the mono connection
The mononucleosis was nicknamed the kissing disease for a simple reason: the students, the most at risk of developing this infection, probably spend massive amounts of germs sharing with their friends.
Although most people recover in two weeks with rest and fluids, the virus that causes a mono, Epstein Barr (EBV), is also associated with a chronic and painful inflammatory affection called myalgic encephalomyelitis (me). Also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), this syndrome has itself been compared to Long Covid.4
And the list continues. Thanks to a protein on the virus, EBV has also been identified as a common infectious activator or a trigger of several autoimmune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory intestinal disease, type 1 diabetes, the Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and celiac disease.5
Indeed, viruses, such as EBV, are a trigger known for chronic inflammation and the types of autoimmune responses we see with Long Covid. If we examine the historic precedent defined by diseases such as Mono, the fact that so many children are still struggling because of the following effects of SARS-COV-2, should not surprise. Does Long Covid become a more common routine childhood illness, with the potential to generate long-term debilitation of adolescents and young adults who should be in their quality?
There are others, also connected
You may not have heard of the next autoimmune disease, but pandas, when they do not refer to white and white bears, is a post-infective self-immune disorder that affects children.
Where does it come from? It starts with the throat of stress, a common childhood disease that is usually treated with a series of antibiotics.
But for children who do not respond to antibiotics, infection can result in strange behavioral changes known as pediatric self-immune neuropsychic disorders associated with streptococcal infections or pandas. According to webmd, a child with pandas can become a person differently at night, suddenly presenting symptoms that include bad mood, anxious, aggressive, compulsive obsessive behaviors and ticks and other uncontrollable body movements.6
Pandas is not the only self-immune disorder connected to Streptococcal infection.John Hopkins MedicineReports that people can develop psoriasis, a self-immune disease that causes thick and scaly skin spots, fluently after a Streptose Gorge infection.
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What are Pandas and Long Covid in common?
While the pandas are the result of a bacterium and long Covid, a virus, these pathogens share the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and attack the brain, affecting everything, mood, nerves and Cerebral function. An article published in the British Medical Journal in 2005, highlights a number of identifiable mechanisms for the mental-body connection. The most relevant being this infectious physical illness, affecting the brain, can give rise, directly, to psychological manifestations.7
We know that SARS-COV-2 has the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier. ARecent article, highlights evidence in adults that anxiety, PTSD and depression should be evaluated in long Covid patients. This may also be the reason why brain fog, memory problems, practice intolerance and the effects of stress response are long-term effects. In fact, the majority of infectious central nervous system disorders may have neurological and psychiatric symptoms. An example is multiple plaque sclerosis (MS), which occasionally helps to help explain a progressive cognitive impairment in adulthood. MS can also present fatigue, depression, a mania or a psychosis. Lupus (SLE), which causes widespread inflammation and tissue lesions in affected organs, is particularly associated with a psychosis of transient encephalopathy ".
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Waiting for answers
An emerging theory to explain long Covid is "mulcry mulcry", where infectious agents disguised to normal "imitrée" cells produce an autoimmune response. When the immune system eventually ends up and combat, it sometimes combat normal cells as the infection imitates. Depending on which the cells are "imitated", the result can be a variety of symptoms, including the gastrointestinal, psychological and respiratory problems we see with Long Covid. It could also potentiate the development of autoimmune antibodies in many types of cells, including intestinal microflora.8
The extent of autoimmune participation in long-term live Covid remains and may be months or even until such theories are definitely resolved or never. More importantly, we can wait once from the same time until clinical trials produce proven, safe and efficient medical treatment for Long Covid. With so little still known about chronic post-viral conditions, including their effects on children, researchers must manage to answer many questions at a time.
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How to follow the symptoms
For children waiting for responses to treat their debilitating qualities now, rehabilitation can guide significant and measurable interventions. Studies have shown external factors such as diet and lifestyle considerably control the immune system as genetics. This provides the basic premise for the collection of data on the myriad of variables that ravage havoc in each individual case of Long COVIDs, to find specific correlations - alongside possible solutions - the symptoms of each child.
The adjustment of personal health and lifestyle changes to improve results has long guided non-pharmacological care for people with diabetes or cardiovascular problems. An approach informed by the world's real evidence can also provide indispensable responses in the case of Long Covid.
Long COVID experts recognize that rehabilitation offers an immediate way in advance. Early treatment of emerging post-covid clinics Need specialists who can prescribe the good exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, sleep modification and the medicine for the myriad of health problems. Collection of real world proof to understand what makes the case of every single Long Covid unique is an important first step towards responses.
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The references:
- https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-Novel-coronavirus-coovid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationLogmunity/HealthNetSocialcare/ConditionsAndDisase/Bulletins/ProvalenceongoningSympomscuiviatureCoronAvirusovid19infectionintheuk/1april2021
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/health/covid-children-inflammatory-syndrome.html
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid: Exceeding Controversyhttps://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1559
- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/epstein-barr-virus-autoimmune-disases
- https://www.webmd.com/children/what-is-pandas-syndrome
- https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_1/i31
- https://www.nature.com/articles/cmi20187