No child’s play: What parents need to know about Covid and its real effects on kids

Dra. Olivia Camille Reyes, Centre Medicale Internationale’s Pediatric Emergency Medicine specialist, confirmed that kids do physically well when they get infected with Covid-19. In fact, children comprise only 9% of the total number of Covid cases reported in the country, Reyes said. The case fatality rate is only at 0.4%. addressed this timely topic on the effect of Covid on kids—which is especially relevant since they are now allowed outside in Metro Manila areas under Alert Level 2.

Moderate, severe and critical conditions, exhibit as pneumonia, severe sepsis or bloodborne infection, and acute thrombosis, which happens when there’s massive inflammation and blood clots formed in the blood vessels. A rare condition that parents need to also be familiar with is the multi-system inflammatory syndrome .

Since children are being allowed to go out now, and schools are reopening, vaccination is highly advised, said Dr. Reyes. Photo by Zandro Ochona, ABS-CBN NewsDuring the early stages of the pandemic, everyone was preoccupied taking care of adults who got infected with Covid. This resulted to an abrupt halt in the delivery of routine child care services, observed Dr. Reyes.

Meanwhile, children with comorbidities—those who need infusions, for instance—suffered because hospitals were overwhelmed with Covid cases. The pediatric emergency medicine specialist noted an increase in depressive symptoms and sadness during the first half of the pandemic. “Depression and suicide rates actually increased,” she said. But as children adjusted towards the latter part of 2020 and early part of 2021, child experts observed that rates have stabilized and went down. Grief, due to loss of loved ones, also adversely affected the mental health of some children.

Physical activity is encouraged to help reduce anxiety and depression and release stress. Photo by Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/FileCovid will probably be in our midst for a long time. So there is a need for “perspective shifts” as we journey towards the future, said Dr. Reyes.

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