SO much strep throat

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my son had multiple strep infections way before covid, starting in K. He would get it every year at least. He’s now in middle school and hasn’t had one since covid actually.

this is us too. My kids were very susceptible to strep when they were like 4-8, would get it multiple times a year. We haven't had strep since covid either. Its just one of those things that you often grow out of susceptibility.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the problem right now is we just don't know. We don't know the impact that multiple COVID infections is going to have on us or our children...but we also have to live our lives. All we can do is hope that with vaccinations and natural immunity that a COVID infection will become less and less serious over time. It's impossible for people sending their kids to school or going to jobs everyday to hide from COVID, we just can't. I wish there was another way than just crossing our fingers and hoping but there really doesn't seem to be at this point. I can tell you that my family is much happier now that they are living their lives and doing the activities that they love. I am still nervous about COVID but I realize unless I want to homeschool my kids and go live on a ranch in Montana, I have to just live with the background fear. I wish there was better ventilation in schools, I wish that it was the norm to have air purifiers in every classroom and every restaurant...but that's just not our reality. It does feel a little like our leaders have given up because I certainly don't hear doctors saying everything is OK...but honestly I think they aren't saying anything right now because they just don't know.

At this point, there is absolutely no reason all schools and public buildings dont have much better ventilation. It should be a huge part of living with covid.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my son had multiple strep infections way before covid, starting in K. He would get it every year at least. He’s now in middle school and hasn’t had one since covid actually.

No way. Could he have had Covid and you didn’t now it? There is definitely a link to Covid.

No bc covid didn’t exist then. It was 2015 when he was in K.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, my son had multiple strep infections way before covid, starting in K. He would get it every year at least. He’s now in middle school and hasn’t had one since covid actually.

this is us too. My kids were very susceptible to strep when they were like 4-8, would get it multiple times a year. We haven't had strep since covid either. Its just one of those things that you often grow out of susceptibility.

+1

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I had clinically 'chronic' strep - 4 rounds of progressively stronger antibiotics - as a middle schooler in the late 90s and haven't had it since. There is a penicillin-resistant strain circulating now that is likely the cause of the 'reinfections' (actually primary infections that were never cleared).

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Yes, and it's showing up with non-sore throat symptoms as others have noted. DS just had a hoarse voice but swore his throat didn't actually hurt, and then DH caught it but only had a very swollen and painful lymph node on his neck and felt a little run down. Our neighbor's daughters both had it present like pink eye and a fever.

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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

The damage we're doing by going back to normal? Are we supposed to be living like it's 2020?

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Good to know.

We're in Frederick County (MD) and everyone seems to have a cold with a nasty cough. Neighbor across the street had strep. Thankfully no one at our house has it.

No one in our house has ever had strep or Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, one of my kids has tested negative for COVID many times, yet has been hammered by strep or strep-like illness this year. Can't wait for summer and praying for a break for this kid!

One kid in our has had COVID and flu in pretty close succession. That was his first COVID infection in late 2022. The other had his first case of strep in that same period. I have never had strep in 50 years; spouse had chronic strep his entire childhood (muitiple times a year). Kids got a virus with sore throats over the last month - negative for strep and now I have the first sore throat, not due to allergies I can ever recall.

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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.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

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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.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

The CDC recommends FIVE air exchanges per hour. Show me how many schools have that.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

The damage we're doing by going back to normal? Are we supposed to be living like it's 2020?

We should be in a new normal. Kind of like how the world moved on from open sewage in streets after cholera.

We know more about ventilation now.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem right now is we just don't know. We don't know the impact that multiple COVID infections is going to have on us or our children...but we also have to live our lives. All we can do is hope that with vaccinations and natural immunity that a COVID infection will become less and less serious over time. It's impossible for people sending their kids to school or going to jobs everyday to hide from COVID, we just can't. I wish there was another way than just crossing our fingers and hoping but there really doesn't seem to be at this point. I can tell you that my family is much happier now that they are living their lives and doing the activities that they love. I am still nervous about COVID but I realize unless I want to homeschool my kids and go live on a ranch in Montana, I have to just live with the background fear. I wish there was better ventilation in schools, I wish that it was the norm to have air purifiers in every classroom and every restaurant...but that's just not our reality. It does feel a little like our leaders have given up because I certainly don't hear doctors saying everything is OK...but honestly I think they aren't saying anything right now because they just don't know.

At this point, there is absolutely no reason all schools and public buildings dont have much better ventilation. It should be a huge part of living with covid.

Unfortunately the covid deniers think living with covid means living like 2019 which means living with constant illness and long term disability. i don't want this but they seem to.

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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.

Air ventilation has already been upgraded, including at schools. For the rest, we can agree to disagree.

What are you talking about? You think all of the schools have adequate ventilation now? They don't. You live in lala land if you think they do.

The CDC recommends FIVE air exchanges per hour. Show me how many schools have that.

All of our schools have that now. Yours don't? Do you know that or are you just assuming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the problem right now is we just don't know. We don't know the impact that multiple COVID infections is going to have on us or our children...but we also have to live our lives. All we can do is hope that with vaccinations and natural immunity that a COVID infection will become less and less serious over time. It's impossible for people sending their kids to school or going to jobs everyday to hide from COVID, we just can't. I wish there was another way than just crossing our fingers and hoping but there really doesn't seem to be at this point. I can tell you that my family is much happier now that they are living their lives and doing the activities that they love. I am still nervous about COVID but I realize unless I want to homeschool my kids and go live on a ranch in Montana, I have to just live with the background fear. I wish there was better ventilation in schools, I wish that it was the norm to have air purifiers in every classroom and every restaurant...but that's just not our reality. It does feel a little like our leaders have given up because I certainly don't hear doctors saying everything is OK...but honestly I think they aren't saying anything right now because they just don't know.

Are you also concerned about continuing to catch other coronaviruses or only Covid? If so, why?