Number of children hit with a rare inflammatory syndrome increases in Italy and France.
RARE INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME – In Italy and France, the number of children affected by this rare inflammatory syndrome increased.
“Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome Potentially Associated with COVID-19” is the name of the condition suffered by children which have symptoms similar to having toxic shock and Kawasaki disease. These symptoms include fever, rashes, swollen glands and, in severe cases, heart inflammation.
Accordingly, this rare syndrome hits young children and the number of children affected in France and Italy spiked up. Moreover, the inflammatory syndrome is reported to be the same that hit the children in United States, Britain, and Spain.
COVID-19 has mostly affected adults, especially those with underlying medical conditions, out of millions of cases globally and it is feared that worse is being posed to young children. Also, another fear is that this is being linked to the disease caused by this novel coronavirus hitting young children.
In Bergamo, Italy, 10 children with the syndrome have been admitted at the Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII in between dates of February 18 to April 20. According to The Lancet, doctors in the said hospital have only seen 19 children with Kawasaki disease in the last five years.
And in New York, 85 children with the syndrome are under investigation where 3 of them died and was positive of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, this syndrome being linked with the new coronavirus is still being analyzed by scientists because not all children with this condition are coronavirus-positive.
Dr. George Ofori-Amanfo, division chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York, told Reuters, “The symptoms in children are different from adults with COVID-19 in whom the illness is more of a respiratory condition.”
And children with this syndrome suffer from severe abdominal pain and vomiting that progresses to shock but none of them have any diseases prior to infection. All of them had antibodies for the coronavirus.
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