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Children can suffer from massive long-term effects after a corona infection. Particularly serious: children without typical symptoms can also be affected.
- A new study suggests a connection between Corona and a heavy one Inflammatory syndrome an.
- This does not affect adults, but children.
- Even children without typical Corona-Symptome can be strong after infection Inflammation im body develop.
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Frankfurt – children suffer from the limitations due to the Corona-Pandemie just like adults. Be it changing classes or the closings of zoos, cinemas and other leisure facilities that made children’s hearts beat faster because of Corona. But an infection with the Coronavirus is different with children than with theirs parents and others Adult, This is what previous studies have indicated. It was suggested that children of all ages would suffer less from the consequences of a corona infection. But one Meta-Study now indicates that even in children serious Long-term consequences can occur – even if they do not occur during the acute infection Symptoms had.
Corona study: first cases of children with severe inflammatory syndrome in May
As early as May 2020, reports of cases in Great Britain and the USA were mounting. Always more children were having a serious Inflammatory syndrome taken to clinics. This is researched with a previous one Corona infection related. Because that multi-inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) concern, as the Scinexx portal sums up, 2 out of 100,000 Covid-19 sick children and adolescents. It causes strong ones stomach pain, fever and Inflammation. If left untreated, according to the portal, it could lead to circulatory collapse and damage to the heart vessels in a child.
Symptoms of Multi-Inflammatory Syndrome Percentage of 662 affected children fever 100 percent Stomach pain or diarrhea 73.7 percent Vomit 68.3 percent Abnormal EKG results ECG of 581 children, 54 percent of them abnormal Source: Meta-study by Mubbasheer Ahmed et al., 2020 —
In a meta-study, the researchers Mubbasheer Ahmed, Alvaro Moreira and colleagues conducted the results of previous research on the Inflammatory syndrome together and came to disturbing realizations. “The children had to by no means Covid-19 symptoms have in the upper respiratory tract to get MIS-C, that’s frightening, ”said researcher Alvaro Moreira to“ EurekAlert! ”. “The children may not have symptoms, so the condition will go unnoticed – and then, a few weeks later, they develop this severe one inflammation in the body ”, says Moreira.
Meta-study: Children without typical Covid symptoms can also be affected
A total of 662 children were examined. They were on average 9.3 years old, everyone was at that multi-inflammatory syndrome ill. They suffered from symptoms like fever (all affected children), stomach pain or diarrhea (73.3 percent) and Vomit (68.3 percent). An EKG was performed on 581 of the affected children. This is done by means of electrocardiography (EKG) Cardiac function checked. Of these children, 54 percent had abnormalities in the EKG Cardiac function determine. Of 628 children tested, 84.7 percent had a positive Corona test result.
It is the one multi-inflammatory syndrome to a new childhood disease that apparently is with Sars-CoV-2 connected, explains Moreira. “It can be fatal because it usually affects several organs. Whether it concerns the heart and lungs or the digestive system or the neurological system, it has so many faces that experts initially found it difficult to understand it. “
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome is a new pediatric disease associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is dangerous and potentially lethal. https://t.co/RFshqwIRfq
– Julia Murlewska (@murlewska) November 29, 2020
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Corona study: many children have abnormalities in their hearts
The abnormalities on Hearts were troubling in that there Long-term consequences can have particularly serious effects. A study in Frankfurt indicated that adults could be infected with the Coronavirus can cause heart damage. In 78 percent of the study participants in Frankfurt, abnormalities in the heart were still several weeks after one Corona infection detected. Even in the children, the inflammation in the body was only detected a few weeks after being infected with the coronavirus, says Moreira.
In the 581 children examined via ECG who were Inflammatory syndrome suffered, the ECGs were carried out “because they showed significant impairment of their heart function,” explains Moreira to “EurekAlert!”. The examinations revealed the following abnormalities and diseases of the heart:
- Pathological expansion of the coronary arteries.
- Reduced pumping function of the heart in around half of the children examined.
- Almost 10 percent of the children developed an aneurysm.
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Study emphasizes: closely monitor children with inflammatory syndrome
children with a Aneurysm are particularly at risk because the arterial dilation can tear and lead to internal bleeding. Therefore, the little ones have to be closely monitored and repeatedly examined via ultrasound. “A disaster for parentswho had a previously perfectly healthy child ”and that after an infection with Corona the Inflammatory syndrome Moreira emphasizes.
In general, all children who participate in the multi-inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) sick, should be kept in mind from a medical point of view, also in order to understand which long-term consequences of the disease could still result, says Moreira. (Sophia Lother)
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