One in four children with Covid-19 will develop long-term symptoms of the disease, according to a new scientific study that analysed data from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.[/B] The analysts, who made the pre-publication in medRxiv, evaluated data from 21 previous studies involving a total of 80,071 children, 25% of whom had symptoms lasting at least four to 12 weeks.
The meta-analysis showed that the most common persistent symptoms in children were neuropsychiatric (mood swings, fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches, dizziness, balance problems), cardiorespiratory (shortness of breath, nasal congestion, chest pain and pressure, coughing, cardiac arrhythmia), dermatological (excessive sweating, itching, hair loss) and gastrointestinal (abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea).
As researcher Sonia Villapol of the Methodist Research Institute of Houston in Texas reported, according to Reuters, children and adolescents can also suffer physical and mental effects from long Covid-19.
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