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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-19-children-doctors-see-link-between-virus-neurological-side-n1235501LONDON Nia Haughton, 15, occasionally struggles to find the right words, and her memory can be patchy, but as she describes her lengthy treatment in a London hospital as she sits on a low wall beside her home, her account still has the power to shock.
In early April, the British teen had been battling a cough and a high temperature for about 10 days, but when her condition significantly deteriorated her mother, Justina Ward, called for help.
After the emergency dispatcher heard Nia having difficulty breathing, an ambulance arrived within minutes. The first emergency room to admit her swiftly recognized that her illness was both acute and complex, and transferred her to one of central Londons top childrens hospitals. Soon after her arrival there with several recognizable COVID-19 symptoms, she was sedated and placed on a ventilator inside an intensive care unit, where she remained for two weeks.
For days, her lungs labored to stave off collapse until the medical staff tried proning her for 16 hours a day. During proning, Nia was turned to lie on her front at a slight incline, but kept on ventilation with the help of an anesthesiologist. This approach allows oxygen to be blasted to the back of a patients lungs, and has been beneficial for many COVID-19 sufferers.
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global1
(25,242 posts)How the hell could anyone that has half a brain encourage that schools be opened and we send our children back to school during this pandemic?
Short term it might sound like a good thing to do - but - what if we sentence our children to long term side effects and consequences of Covid that will last their lifetime.
This OP was about neurological side effects. I've read other accounts where people are experiencing cardiovascular side effects and consequences from Covid.
It's just not fair to our children to subject them to perhaps a lifetime of ill health.
This country has to come to its senses.
People stop being so selfish and spoiled and lets buckle up and deal with this virus so we can whip it for good.
This scatter shot way of dealing with it is just not working. We need to get it together and have a national plan and stick with it until we can be assured we have it under control.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)FarPoint
(12,351 posts)They may have mild symptoms, ride it thru and feel recovered....but, ...To have an essentially tolerable covid-experience as such, the immune system needs to work at maximum capacity...risking exhausing the immune system to where auto-immune response arises in say, 1 month...the immune system begins to attack the body...for example, like hyperthyroidism attacks the thyroid...
A friends teenager, 18 year old female has Covid-19 in June..mildly symptomatic, lathalgic fever but recovered essentially...until the end of July....She spikea a fever 100.3, vertigo, severe headache, eye prssure, blurred vision, falling, altered gait/balance...Central Nervous System went into fighting mode...she had brain swelling around hypothalamus ,.... Long story short, mega doses of IV solumedrol daily like 1000mg for 4 days at Daytin Childrens ...then again when transfered to Miami ValleyHospital/Neuro in Dayton...She was discharged few days ago...feeling better...Neuro Team will be doing an Abstract Article on her case...
This virus can lay dormant...I see misery for anyone who has contracted covid-19...chronic illness.