Long covid in children & treating normal blood pressure
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
My blood pressure is perfectly normal, but could I benefit from medication to lower it even further? We discuss with Oxford University’s Prof Kazem Rahimi and our resident GP Margaret McCartney.
How do you diagnose a new disease that could have 200 symptoms? We explore long Covid in children with our reporter Carolyn Atkinson and Professor Sir Terence Stephenson from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
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| 0:41.0 | And I'll be honest, I'm feeling quite nervous about this. |
| 0:44.1 | Producer Beth is forcing me to use the blood pressure machine at work. |
| 0:47.7 | My arm is in the cuff and it's squeezing tighter and tighter. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm going to get my excuses in really. |
| 0:54.6 | Having a microphone in front of my face is not going to make this a more relaxing experience than ever before. |
| 1:01.9 | Ooh, 119 over 75. |
| 1:04.1 | I'll take that. |
| 1:04.7 | I think that's a good one. |
| 1:05.7 | I think we'll have to double check with Margaret later in the program when we discuss whether far more people with normal healthy |
| 1:12.8 | blood pressure should be taking medication. But first, we're going to tackle the tricky topic |
| 1:17.9 | of long COVID in children because there's arguments about what it is, how big a problem it is, |
| 1:23.6 | what the symptoms are, how long it lasts, and all of that's feeding into the debate around |
| 1:28.8 | whether children should be vaccinated against COVID. So let's start with our reporter, |
| 1:33.3 | Carolyn Atkinson. Hi Carolyn, how are you? Hi, James. I'm fine, thank you. So you've been researching |
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