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Concluding comments from Dr Nigel Speight in June 19 Irish Independent article:

"ME in the family: ‘At 12, my daughter is teaching her brother how to manage symptoms. It’s sad seeing them share strategies’"

https://m.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/health-features/me-in-the-family-at-12-my-daughter-is-teaching-her-brother-how-to-manage-symptoms-its-sad-seeing-them-share-strategies/a20437052.html

#LongCovid #PwLC @longcovid #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #PwME @MEcfs

Is there anything to the theory that long Covid is, in fact, ME?

“A large number of long-Covid cases are to all intents and purposes ME. I actually encourage them to call it ME because they then have the protection of new National Institute for Health and Care Excellent (NICE) guidelines.

NICE guidelines finally pulled the plug on graded exercise therapy, and all the people who built careers on graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy are about to move into the long-Covid territory to preserve their careers and start subjecting all these long-Covid sufferers to the same (treatment guidelines), so if you call it long-Covid/ME, they are protected from graded exercise regimes.”

Dr Nigel Speight is a semi-retired UK-based paediatrician who is considered as one of the leading experts on ME in children.

For more information, visit irishmecfs.org; longcovidkids.org; longcovidadvocacyireland.com; and panspandasuk.org

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