SO much strep throat

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

How silly. Almost all kids have had covid at some point by now.

Mine haven't. No strep either.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah it just seems super weird to me that so many kids are getting it multiple times. This never happened when my older daughter was in elementary school. I mean strep would go around, some kids would get it and take antibiotics and that would be that. I don't know if this is still some kind of leftover immunity issue from the COVID days...or some particularly virulent strain of strep that is resistant to antibiotics??Either way it seems very out of the ordinary to me but no one is really talking about it.

Majority that keep getting it have had covid. It’s just the beginning of what having covid can/might mean for people.

Majority of kids have had covid - so of course so will the majority of kids getting strep.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

My 3 kids had covid in 2021 and haven't had strep since 2015 or so. For the anecdote. I don't believe the pediatrician. I think kids weren't exposed to it during the pandemic and now there's a big resurgence.

Some kids are more prone to it than others. I used to get it every year as a kid.

Oh I guess their covid was winter 2022 fwiw.

If not covid, what do you think has changed? There has never been this much strep going around, multiple rounds in each class one after another.

I think what changed is that we never avoided human contact for 1.5 years before.

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As someone with an autoimmune disease,I have come down with strep throat multiple times a year since moving to MoCo pre Covid.

I've finally gotten a break during the pandemic, and it's one of the reasons I haven't stopped wearing a mask inside public places.

Kids and adults who have had Covid are finding they have an immune system unfortunately more like mine now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

How silly. Almost all kids have had covid at some point by now.

Mine haven't. No strep either.

Same no covid, no strep. We're a very covid cautious family and we mask up, avoid crowds, test often

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My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

How silly. Almost all kids have had covid at some point by now.

Mine haven't. No strep either.

Same no covid, no strep. We're a very covid cautious family and we mask up, avoid crowds, test often

PP. We do none of that. The one prone to strep had her tonsils out 12 years ago and no one has had it since.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

Wish it would, but I'm not holding my breath. Most people don't seem to care the damages they are doing to their bodies and their kids

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Anonymous wrote:In my daughter's elementary school in Montgomery county, MD, multiple children are getting strep throat two and even three times. This seems completely out of the realm of normal. Anyone else seeing this?

No it's not normal. It's because Covid destroyed their immune systems.

But carry on, everything is fine!

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

My 3 kids had covid in 2021 and haven't had strep since 2015 or so. For the anecdote. I don't believe the pediatrician. I think kids weren't exposed to it during the pandemic and now there's a big resurgence.

Some kids are more prone to it than others. I used to get it every year as a kid.

So you know better than the pediatrician?! Jeesh.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

Interesting. Only one of my 2 kids had Covid and he just got over a really bad case of strep -he still was feeling horrible 3- 4 days after starting antibiotics. The other kid who didn’t get Covid never (or hasn’t yet) caught the strep.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seeing the same at our school. Peds says it's being seen in kids who had covid. Covid infection impacts your immune system, and that's why we're seeing so much now. Hard to tell what this may look like a few years down the line

My 3 kids had covid in 2021 and haven't had strep since 2015 or so. For the anecdote. I don't believe the pediatrician. I think kids weren't exposed to it during the pandemic and now there's a big resurgence.

Some kids are more prone to it than others. I used to get it every year as a kid.

So you know better than the pediatrician?! Jeesh.

The pediatrician is spouting nonsense. There's no evidence for immunosuppression after covid -- this is a nonsense theory that was being spread on Twitter last fall. Kids with viruses in general (including but not limited to covid) are more susceptible to strep co-infections, but that is unrelated to the prolonged immunosuppressed state that Covidians claim happens after covid.

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Both my son and I got strep. Not my daughter (the only one who has never had Covid to our knowledge and we still test colds. I’m assume she’s had it though).

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

NP. What do you wish people do/would have done? The closures damaged mental health and caused significant learning loss for children - a weakened immune system isn't so bad compared to that.

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a pediatrician and said strep has been really really unusual this year. Seeing so much and also some very severe cases.

Covid does absolutely impact your immune system. We will be seeing the after effects very clearly in the next few years. Hopefully that will get people to take things more seriously

NP. What do you wish people do/would have done? The closures damaged mental health and caused significant learning loss for children - a weakened immune system isn't so bad compared to that.

There's a lot of space between closing down schools and workplaces and reverting back to exactly how we did things in 2019 when there wasn't a novel virus infecting everyone.

We should focus on air quality and ventilation #1 - all indoor spaces can be upgraded, especially schools. We should spend time outdoors when we can, including school. We should mask with a quality mask whenever we have symptoms of any illness to protect others. We should mask with a quality mask in most places indoors when we're in the middle of a wave. We should mask in healthcare settings and pharmacies, on public transport. We should test when we have symptoms and isolate.

You can do all of those things with minimal impact to your daily life. You can still be out there doing everything you want to do. You can be smart about this virus at the same time. It's not all or nothing.