{"id":146329,"date":"2023-12-19T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=146329"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T17:57:15","slug":"healthy-teen-15-suffers-alarming-new-covid-side-effect-days-after-falling-ill-as-doctors-issue-warning-to-parents-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/lifestyle\/healthy-teen-15-suffers-alarming-new-covid-side-effect-days-after-falling-ill-as-doctors-issue-warning-to-parents-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"'Healthy' teen, 15, suffers alarming new Covid side effect days after falling ill – as doctors issue warning to parents | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAYS after falling ill with Covid-19, an otherwise healthy teenage girl turned up at A&E struggling to breathe.<\/p>\n

The cause of her breathing distress gave doctors pause, after tests revealed the virus had paralysed her vocal cords.<\/p>\n

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Shortness of breath, fatigue, memory problems and heart palpitations have all been named as lingering side effects brought on by a Covid infection. <\/p>\n

But this was the first time complications affecting the vocal cords have been documented in a child or adolescent, physician-researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear teaching hospital said. <\/p>\n

The 15-year-old went to the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital with respiratory distress and noisy breathing two weeks after testing positive for Covid-19. <\/p>\n

The study – published \u00a0in the journal\u00a0Pediatrics<\/em> – notes that she had a history of asthma and anxiety. The teen told doctors that she'd started feeling short of breath nine days after falling ill. <\/p>\n

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After examining her with an endoscope – a tube with a small camera inside that's used to look inside the body – doctors discovered that both of the vocal cords in her voice box were paralysed. <\/p>\n

They concluded that the paralysis was nervous system-related complication of the virus. <\/p>\n

Author Danielle Reny Larrow, a resident in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, said: \u201cGiven how common this virus is among children, this newly recognised potential complication should be considered in any child presenting with a breathing, talking or swallowing complaint after a recent Covid-19 diagnosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is especially important as such complaints could be easily attributed to more common diagnoses such as asthma.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While paralysis of one vocal cord can cause issues with breathing, swallowing and speaking, researchers wrote that paralysis of both of them "poses a unique challenge" as it can result in respiratory distress might require the insertion of a surgical airway in severe cases.<\/p>\n

Doctors diagnosed the 15-year-old with paradoxical vocal fold movement. <\/p>\n

When you take a breath, your vocal folds should open to let air through to your lungs, but the teen's were closing instead, making it hard for her to breath. <\/p>\n

As a result, she was referred to speech therapy, but this failed to relieve her symptoms. She underwent a tracheostomy, where an opening is surgically in the windpipe. <\/p>\n

The procedure helped alleviate's the girl's breathing difficulties but she remained dependent on the tracheostomy for 15 months. <\/p>\n

This suggested that the type of nerve complication she experienced may not be temporary, researchers said. <\/p>\n

Doctors were able to remove the device just in time for teen's senior prom. <\/p>\n

Senior author and director of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology and Pediatric Airway, Voice, and Swallowing Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Christopher Hartnick, said: \u201cShe was having her senior prom a year and a quarter to the date of when she lost her function, and she told me she was not going to go to the prom with her tracheostomy in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to intervene so that she could graduate high school and go to her prom tracheostomy-free, which she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers said there have been several reports of paralysis in one or both vocal cords in adults following a Covid infection. <\/p>\n

But this is the first report of the complication in an adolescent, they noted. <\/p>\n

This is important, the authors said, because these types of complications are not usually expected in young, healthy individuals.<\/p>\n

Dr Hartnick said: \u201cTo have a young, healthy, vibrant high schooler all of a sudden lose one of their important cranial nerves such that they can't breathe is highly unusual and took some parsing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that kids can actually have long term neurotrophic effects from Covid-19 is something that it's important for the broader paediatric community to be aware of in order to be able to treat our kids well.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are the symptoms of paradoxical vocal fold movement?<\/h3>\n

Paradoxical vocal fold movement happens when your vocal folds close when in fact they should open. <\/p>\n

The condition can be confused with asthma, but it's in fact a problem with how the vocal folds move. <\/p>\n

It causes symptoms like: <\/p>\n