Some children's hospitals see a surge in rare Covid-19 complication MIS-C

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Some children's hospitals see a surge in rare Covid-19 complication MIS-C

Mon, 2021-03-08 12:44 — mike kraft

Some children's hospitals see a surge in rare Covid-19 complication MIS-C Katharine Dunn's son, Nolan had been running a low grade fever for about a week, when it started getting higher, she took him to the doctor who said it was likely a regular virus, but she found out it was much worse. Jen Christensen, CNN CNN

(CNN) Katharine Dunn got really worried about her son Nolan even as his doctors told her she shouldn't -- the 13-year-old's fever was "just a virus."

He didn't have a sore throat or cough. His Covid-19 tests came back negative, twice.

Then what had been a low-grade fever crept up to 104.4.

"That's when I knew something was really wrong," she said. "Some people's children spike those types of fevers, my kids never do."

Talking it over with her dad, he reminded her a friend's child had a "weird syndrome" called MIS-C that stands for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

Doctors don't know what causes it. Often kids have Covid-19 first, but not always. The novel coronavirus doesn't usually cause severe disease in children, but for those few kids that do go on to develop MIS-C, the condition seems to inflame different parts of the body, and it can be serious.

What doctors do know is that various children's hospitals around the country have reported seeing a higher number of cases these past few months, even though MIS-C is considered rare.

In an update released Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there have been 2,617 MIS-C cases in the United States before March 1, and 33 children have died. That's up from early February, when 2,060 cases and 30 deaths had been reported. ...

The CDC advises parents or caregivers to contact a doctor right away if kids have fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot eyes or extra tiredness....

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