Is a 14 yr old considered a child or adult?

I am asking in regard to how children in 80 % of cases go into remission ( is this the right terminology) or basically don't have ITP anymore. A 14 yr falls into which categoty?

A 14 year old would probably be considered pediatric still, but you can't really look at things that way. Chronic children can still go into remission years later and adults can be acute or achieve remissions at any time. Everyone is different and the word "chronic" is misleading (in my opinion).

My sister had ITP at 16. She was considered chronic because she had ITP for a year. After that year, she went into remission and has not had a problem since. She just turned 44.

You didn't mention whether the 14yo is a boy or girl. Teens are treated like kids, but, if it's a girl, she will have some more (ahem) adult considerations, as well, for which she might need to see a gynecologist and get a prescription. Additionally, teen girls are at more risk of developing chronic autoimmune disorders. (ITP is 1:1 male:female in kids, I am told, but, in the adult population, the females outnumber the males.) We were told that because our child was almost 13, she was likely to be chronic and lifelong, as she would be more like an adult patient than a child patient. She was deemed chronic at six months, but at fifteen months, she started running consistently safe, near normal, or normal counts, and has done so since then. I consider this remission, and I hope it is a lifelong remission, but we've never been cleared to go more than six months between checkups.
Norma

Thank you for your replies. My daughter turned 14 in 10/09 and was diagnosed in 12/09. At her 14 yr old checkup in 11/09 she was still ok. So it happened about a month later when she started getting random bruises. She had one treatment when she ended up in emergency on 12/28 at a count of 15000. She got IVG and he count shot up to 290,000. Since then it has come down but pretty much leveled off the the 50's to 60's range. She just had a slight cold and we were in emergency this past Friday with a count of 22,000. But as of yesterday it seems to be creeping up as she went up to 32000.