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COVID/Children 85 Cases in NYC Mysterious Syndrome (100 now)
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Kawasaki disease causes inflammation in the walls of the arteries and can limit blood flow to the heart. It produces a high temperature lasting over five days, a rash, swollen neck glands, cracked lips, swelling of hands and feet, and redness in both eyes.
Children under age 5 are most commonly affected; and while it can be deadly, it is treatable. Kawasaki is a leading cause of acquired heart disease in the United States, with complications that include coronary artery enlargement and aneurysms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Toxic shock syndrome, meanwhile, is caused by a toxin produced by some forms of staphylococcus bacteria and involves fever, shock and problems with several body organs, according to the US National Library of Medicine.
The difference in symptoms could be attributed to pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome being a second phase of the coronavirus illness, pediatrician Dr. Glenn Budnick said on CNN Newsroom Saturday.
"Your immune system is overreacting to the virus, and because these are inflammatory diseases, this overreaction can cause a Kawasaki-like disease," Budnick said.
New York state's health department is studying the cases of 85 children, Cuomo said Sunday.
Most of them tested positive for coronavirus or had positive antibody tests.
Elsewhere, Seattle has reported a case in a healthy teenager who developed shock symptoms that sent him to the intensive care unit, according to CNN affiliate KIRO. A team at Stanford Children's Hospital in California has also reported a case.
Similar cases have been reported internationally.
A small number of children in the United Kingdom have recently become ill with the rare syndrome that could be linked to coronavirus, pediatric specialists said. Cases like those have been reported in Italy and Spain as well. Abdominal pain, gastrointestinal symptoms and cardiac inflammation are common in those cases, UK experts said..... https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/10/health/coronavirus-mystery-children-symptoms/index.html
Mysterious illness possibly tied to COVID-19 blamed for deaths of at least 3 children in New York
A mysterious illness affecting children, possibly linked to the coronavirus, is now blamed for at least three deaths in New York, reports CBS News senior medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula.
New York State is investigating at least 85 reported cases of what many are calling "pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrom" that is potentially associated with COVID-19. Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned, "This does not present as a normal COVID case. COVID cases tend to be respiratory; this presents as an inflammation of the blood vessels."
In many cases, children did not have respiratory issues; instead they experienced abdominal symptoms, a change in skin color, or chest pain.
"What we're seeing is, the immune system's actually going into overdrive, impacting the body in a negative way," said Dr. Jake Kleinmahon, a pediatric cardiologist at Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans. "Some of these patients are having inflammation of their coronary arteries, and you can basically have a heart attack."
Dr. Kleinmahon has already treated several children for this illness, including 12-year-old Juliet Daly. "Her heart was not functioning," Juliet's mother, Jennifer Daly, said last week. "Her heart was inflamed so badly that the conduction system was not working in her heart. So, it was barely pumping. She was in heart failure."
Hospitals in at least six states have reported seeing similar cases. The illness is so concerning that New York City issued a health alert about it last week.
Dr. Kleinmahon said, "If you're not really aware of this syndrome that's being described, it could easily be missed. Fortunately, children overall are very resilient in almost all the cases. And if we're able to knock down the inflammation and get them past the beginning stages of this, they're usually doing very well."
Experts say this illness bears some resemblance to a rare condition called Kawasaki disease. Gov. Cuomo said his state's Department of Health will work with the CDC and the New York Genome Center to study the illness.
When asked about the symptoms and rarity of the condition, Dr. Narula said, "I do think it's important to stress that in the grand scheme of the pandemic, this is rare. We're still learning a lot more about it.
"The important thing for parents is, if their child does have the prolonged high fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, change in the color of their skin, or their lips, or chest pain, that's something they should act on quickly. In many of these cases the kids have decompensated or deteriorated quickly."
If you notice any of those symptoms, Dr. Narula said, call your doctor. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-illness-possible-covid-19-link-blamed-children-deaths-new-york/
Updated on May 8 at 11:54 a.m. ET
Sixty-four children and teens in New York State are suspected of having a mysterious inflammatory syndrome that is believed to be linked to COVID-19, the New York Department of Health said in an alert issued Wednesday. A growing number of similar cases - including at least one death - have been reported in other parts of the U.S. and Europe, though the phenomenon is still not well-understood.
COVID/Children 85 Cases in NYC Mysterious Syndrome (100 now)
Pediatricians say parents should not panic; the condition remains extremely rare.
But researchers also are taking a close look at this emerging syndrome, and say parents should be on the lookout for symptoms in their kids that might warrant a quick call to the doctor - a persistent high fever over several days and significant abdominal pains with repeated vomiting, after which the child does not feel better.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/07/851725443/mystery-inflammatory-syndrome-in-kids-and-teens-likely-linked-to-covid-19
N.Y.C. Reports 38 Cases of Virus-Related Syndrome in Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html#link-62323dd4
The inflammatory syndrome, which health officials said resembles toxic shock, has killed three children in the state, and Mayor Bill de Blasio urged parents to watch for symptoms.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that 38 New York City children have been inflicted with a serious new inflammatory syndrome that city health officials say appears to be linked to an immune response to Covid-19.
That is more than double the 15 cases the city health department warned of in an alert to city health providers on Monday.
The illness, known as pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, introduces a troubling new aspect to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has largely spared children from serious disease. Statewide, three children have died of the inflammatory condition, including one in New York City, and state officials were investigating 85 potential cases, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Sunday.
Of the three children who have died, two were of elementary school age and one was an adolescent, said Dr. Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner. They lived in three different counties, and were not known to have pre-existing conditions.
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