Some children with COVID-19 are experiencing symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease

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There is so much we do NOT know about the novel #coronavirus

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Some children with COVID-19 are experiencing symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease
Kawasaki symptoms include fever, rash, eye irritation and swollen lymph nodes.
By
Dr. Heather J. Kagan and Dr. Delaram J. Taghipour
April 30, 2020, 11:12 AM

Coronavirus and the human bodyPeople are exposed to a coronavirus through mucusn membranes of the eyes, nose and mouth via respiratory droplets.

In less than 24 hours, Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., admitted several children with COVID-19 who are also experiencing a constellation of symptoms that resemble "Kawasaki disease," a rare inflammatory syndrome typically affecting children under the age of 5.

On Wednesday, a representative from Children's National Hospital said the children exhibited “Kawasaki-like characteristics," joining a growing number of hospitals in the U.S. and U.K. that have reported similar cases. The representative has since confirmed that one of these children was officially diagnosed with Kawasaki disease. Symptoms of the disease include fever, rash, eye irritation, swollen lymph nodes and/or swelling of the hands and feet.


The disease- has been linked to COVID-19 in some children, but the exact cause remains a medical mystery.

These American cases are raising new concerns of a new global pattern emerging of critically ill children with COVID-19.

On Sunday, the Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) in the U.K. tweeted about a rise in cases of children in critical condition. These children were manifesting a “hyperinflammatory state” that was “multi-system” and seemed to share common features with two existing rare diseases, alarming medical experts.

The link between Kawasaki syndrome and COVID-19 is still not well established. The UK Kawasaki Disease Foundation released a statement Wednesday, saying that many children with the disease tested negative for COVID-19 and “there is no current evidence of any increased incidence or greater susceptibility to COVID-19 infection for children who had Kawasaki Disease in the past.” ......................

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1. How horrible!!

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2. This is a stunning virus.

Can cause:
blood to clot anywhere in the body,
deadly pneumonia,
strokes in otherwise healthy victims,
Liver/kidney/heart failure even after victims have apparently recovered
and now a devastating illness in kids, who until recently were thought to be somewhat safe from it.


Really hard to imagine how a virus managed to pop up with such a variety of host destructive symptoms.