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Covid symptoms in kids ear ache2/8/2024 “We weren’t hearing about any of these stories right at the time. “Never in a million years could I imagine that four months later our bodies are still trying to recover,” said Mahler, whose own Covid-19 symptoms began about five days before her son’s, and have persisted since. Now, four and a half months since he first got sick, Mahler says that Jake is still experiencing Covid-19 symptoms: exhaustion, intermittent low-grade fevers, sore throat, coughing, enlarged lymph nodes, painful limbs, insomnia, and mysterious splotchy skin that comes and goes. When he finally went four days without a fever by the middle of the month, Mahler thought it was over. Jake’s symptoms stretched into early May. An aerospace engineer in Clear Lake, Texas, Mahler is used to putting puzzle pieces together and taking a calm, cool-headed approach to problems. W hen 7-year-old Jake Mahler began showing symptoms of Covid-19 in mid-April, his mother, Cindy Mahler, stayed calm. My heart goes out, because chronic illness is hell. As for the current “long-haulers”, of Covid-19, I truly hope that full recoveries will happen. Coronavirus exists and there is nothing we can do about that, but we can do something about the protection, the care and wellbeing of our nation. From not having access to proper protection and testing, to avoiding to seek medical attention because we are fearful of exuberant medical bills, the situation in this country is a nightmare. It’s an outright travesty that we in the US have a horrifically unfit president with zero ability to lead a country and protect its citizens. I can’t help but say that if the US would have acted swiftly with a complete lockdown across all states early on and strict guidelines to prevent the spread the country would be in a much better position. We should have a NATIONAL comprehensive plan to stop the spread. I’m not surprised about any of the information in this article. Antibody tests have not been available to us yet, so I guess we will probably never know for sure if it was Covid or not, but it does feel like more and more evidence is coming out of people suffering a long tail to Covid along these lines. We eventually managed to get a test eight weeks in, which understandably came back negative (given that the test is meant to be taken in the first few days of symptoms). When we finally managed to get a test, the results went astray, and we spent several weeks chasing them. Because his symptoms were not the typical cough and fever, we didn’t contemplate Covid at first, and even when we did tests were not available. He is on the mend again now – mainly just fatigue, headaches and a sore throat, and mainly coming on from about 5pm onwards, rather than throughout the day, but we still have to be very careful not to overdo it. He slowly started getting better in June, and had one symptom-free day towards the end of July, before a relapse brought a lot of the old symptoms back again in August. Every few days, new symptoms kicked in (nausea, elevated temperature, lack of appetite, diarrhea, stomach ache, sore throat, chest pains, ear ache, fatigue, random muscular aches and pains etc etc). My son, age 10, started getting headaches at the start of May.
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