One of many two kids being handled at Covenant Youngsters’s Hospital in Lubbock for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in kids (MIS-C) died this week after they have been admitted to the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit.
Medical specialists have described MIS-C as just like Kawasaki illness, a uncommon sickness that causes swelling in medium-sized arteries all through the physique. (iStock)
“The milestone that I didn’t need to attain is we now have had a kind of sufferers go away from problems of MIS-C with COVID,” Dr. Amy Thompson, Covenant Youngsters’s CEO, mentioned throughout a Wednesday information convention.
No different particulars have been instantly offered. Nonetheless, one native information station recognized the boy as Isaiah Soto, a 3rd grade pupil from Odessa.
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Medical specialists have described MIS-C as just like Kawasaki illness, a uncommon sickness that causes swelling in medium-sized arteries all through the physique.
Many kids with MIS-C — which causes irritation within the coronary heart, lungs, kidneys, mind, pores and skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs — have both been contaminated with the novel coronavirus or had been uncovered to somebody with a COVID-19 an infection.
MIS-C may also trigger persistent fever, rashes, vomiting and diarrhea, amongst different signs resembling a crimson tongue and eyes.
“In case you have a baby who has COVID, or has had COVID, and is having signs after the truth that would come with fevers after which different generalized signs of a rash and even GI signs, respiratory points, please be sure you discuss along with your main care doctor about what steps it’s worthwhile to take subsequent,” Thompson mentioned throughout the information convention.
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