October 7, 2024

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Surprising new long COVID symptoms show up in kids and teens

Surprising new long COVID symptoms show up in kids and teens

Rose Lehane Tureen is one busy teenager.

The 16-year-old is class president, an Irish step dance champion, singer, cross-country runner and straight-A student at her high school in Maine.

Her accomplishments belie the reality that she suffers from a debilitating headache that has lasted for more than four years, one of the several long COVID symptoms she’s endured since an infection in March 2020.

At the beginning of her illness, Rose went to the emergency room half a dozen times and was hospitalized twice with dizziness and blinding head pain. She also had red and swollen fingers, toes and ears; peeling skin; joint pain; problems controlling her temperature and terrible dreams.

Rose Lehane Tureen, 16, outside Boston Children's Hospital after an appointment with a neurologist on Aug. 20, 2024, where the Maine teen makes regular visits for the constant headache that began three years ago when she first contracted COVID. When Rose Lehane Tureen got sick at the start of the pandemic, doctors told her kids couldn't get COVID. Today, she still has long-haul symptoms.

She lost years of her life to long COVID and is trying to make up for it.

“I had to decide if I wanted to wither away on the couch in the dark or push through and do things that made me happy,” she said. “I’m reclaiming what it’s taken and trying to live my life.”

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