After a corona infection, some children still struggle with complaints for a long time.
A new analysis shows the most common symptoms.
The hope of every corona patient: The disease will have a minor course and will be over quickly. But those affected are not always fit again quickly. Sometimes the symptoms drag on for weeks and months. Doctors speak of Long-Covid * if Covid patients cannot quickly return to their old fitness and struggle with corona symptoms for a long time. Whether it is lack of resilience, shortness of breath, persistent cough, sleep disorders, pathological exhaustion (fatigue), headache, smell and taste disorders, thinking and concentration disorders as well as muscle pain and muscle weakness:
In the Long-Covid guide for those affected
, patients learn more about treatment methods that, according to the current state of knowledge Promise success.
A new analysis now dealt with the question of how often children and adolescents are affected by long and post Covid.
A German research team led by Martin Roessler from the University Clinic Dresden had evaluated the data of 157,134 people in a preliminary publication that still has to go through a test procedure.
11,950 patient data were children / adolescents and 145,184 data sets were adults.
All of them were infected with Corona in the first half of 2020
.
The patient data were made available by German health insurance companies.
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Long-Covid in children: less often taste disorders and fever
Compared to a control group without Corona, the scientists found
that the Corona patients received more frequent medical diagnoses based on physical and psychological symptoms three months after they were diagnosed
, according to
Spiegel.de
.
According to the study, these rates were 41 percent higher in adults than in children and adolescents, it said.
As the researchers inform, adults sought
medical help
three months after an acute corona infection, mainly due to
taste disorders, fever, cough and breathing difficulties
.
Those children and adolescents who consulted a doctor three months after the initial diagnosis suffered mainly from the following symptoms:
malaise
Cough*
Pain in the throat and chest
rapid exhaustion
Anxiety disorders
depressions
Long-Covid rather rare in children and adolescents
As the
Ärzteblatt
informs, children and adolescents usually recover from a corona infection within a few days.
Longer recovery phases and long covid are rather rare in this age group, as a study published on the specialist portal
Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
shows.
As part of the study, a team of researchers from King's College in the UK evaluated the data from over 75,500 children and adolescents between the ages of five and 17 years.
According to the
Ärzteblatt
, 1,734 children tested positive for Corona.
After five to seven days, the majority of the small patients had recovered
according to the British researchers.
Only 77 children still complained of symptoms 28 days after the positive test.
56 days after the initial diagnosis, there were only 25 children who had not yet fully recovered.
As the
Ärzteblatt
quotes study author Emma Duncan from King's College,
Long-Covid is likely to be the exception in children and adolescents in light of the study results
.
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