May 15, 2020
Moms – Jayme Kennedy
When you’re a parent, it’s completely normal to worry about, well, anything and everything that has to do with your child! We worry about their physical health, their happiness, whether or not they’re making friends or making the right type of friends. We worry when they’re upset, when they’re sad, or when they’re having a hard day. So much of parenting is spent hand-wringing over the well-being of these little humans we’re raising. Many parents also worry about anxiety in their children, which is a fairly common occurrence throughout childhood and adolescence.
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May 15, 2020
The Huffington Post – Catherine Pearson
Many parents feel understandably hesitant about taking their kids to medical providers right now. It’s frightening to take your child into a place where they might come into contact with sick people, particularly since social distancing is crucial to keeping everyone healthy and safe.
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May 14, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
The term “high blood pressure” rarely conjures images of young, playful children. But the condition doesn’t just affect adults. In children, it can be caused by obesity, kidney disease, heart abnormalities or other factors. Hypertension at such a young age puts kids at risk for heart disease and stroke later in life.
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May 14, 2020
Forbes – Mark Kortepeter
Most reports about COVID-19 from around the world have shown that children develop less severe disease and are at very low risk of death. Now come reports, originally from Europe and then New York about a new phenomenon in children. Currently dubbed the “inflammatory syndrome,” signs and symptoms of this phenomenon include fever, rash, abdominal pain, vomiting or diarrhea, along with blood tests showing inflammation. Not all children who have had these symptoms were positive for COVID-19, though, so we can’t say yet that these are caused by the virus.
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May 13, 2020
The Conversation – Helen Dodd, Kathryn Lester and Sam Cartwright-Hatton
Approximately 1.4 billion children worldwide are currently living under partial or full lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the UK, and in many other countries across the world, it has been six weeks or longer since children last played, in person, with a friend.
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