We don’t know a whole lot about pediatric Long COVID.
Emma Sherman, a 13-year-old girl in Ascot, United Kingdom, woke up to a dizzying aura of blind spots and flashing lights in her field of vision. It was May 2020, and she also had crippling nausea and headaches. By August, her dizziness was so overwhelming, she couldn't hold her head up, lying in her mother's lap for hours, too fatigued to attend school.
Emma's pediatrician determined that the teen had long COVID after having had a mild case of the virus in March, about 2 months before her puzzling symptoms began. But beyond a positive antibody test, doctors have found little evidence of what was causing Emma's symptoms. Still, many patients like Emma go to their doctors with phantom symptoms that don't show up on scans or blood tests.
The virus can be in the gut and in the brain, which may help explain why symptoms like brain fog and nausea can linger in children. As for Emma, she recovered in January of 2021, heading back to school and her friends, although her cardiologist advised her to skip gym classes.But the coronavirus found its way to Emma again. Although she was fully vaccinated in the fall of 2021, when the Omicron variant swept the world late that year, she was infected again.She was bedridden with a high fever and cough. The cold-like symptoms eventually went away, but the issues in her gut stuck around.
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