Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children: Rapid Risk Assessment
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/15/2020.
This 18-page report provides details about how several countries affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic recently reported cases of children who were hospitalized in intensive care due to a rare pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS). The presenting signs and symptoms are a mix of the ones for Kawasaki disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and are characterized, among others, by fever, abdominal pain, and cardiac involvement. Risk communication is needed to raise awareness in the medic...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
COVID-19 May Trigger Rare Complication In Children
As COVID-19 continues to spread, there is growing evidence that children may be vulnerable to a rare but serious complication triggered by the infection that has features of Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New evidence links COVID-19 to mystery illness in children
Cases of the mysterious inflammatory syndrome, similar to Kawasaki disease, have been reported in children in more than a dozen U.S. states. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
80% of children in Italian hospital with rare inflammatory disorder tested positive for coronavirus
A new study from Lombardy, Italy, found that 10 children were admitted to a hospital with Kawasaki Disease-like symptoms over the last two months compared to 19 over the last five years. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New Inflammatory Condition in Children Probably Linked to Coronavirus, Study Finds
Researchers compared 10 cases in Italy with previous cases of a similar childhood illness, Kawasaki disease. The rate of the new cases was much higher, and the conditions were more serious. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Pam Belluck Tags: Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS) Children and Childhood Kawasaki Disease Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Italy Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII your-feed-healthcare Research Lancet, The (Journal) Source Type: news
Kawasaki disease-like symptoms identified in Italian children with COVID-19
Researchers in Italy announced Wednesday that they have identified 10 cases of young children with COVID-19 symptoms that resemble Kawasaki disease, a rare inflammatory disorder, echoing reports from doctors in New York. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Italian doctors find link between Covid-19 and inflammatory disorder
The disorder has required some children to undergo life-saving treatment in intensive care unitsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors in Italy have reported the first clear evidence of a link between Covid-19 and a rare but serious inflammatory disorder that has required some children to undergo life-saving treatment in intensive care units.The mysterious condition emerged last month when NHS bossesissued an alert to doctors after hospitals admitted a number of children with a mix oftoxic shock and symptoms seen in an inflammatory disorder known as Kawasaki disease.Continue reading... (Sourc...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Science Health Coronavirus outbreak UK news Italy Children Europe Society Source Type: news
A New York 9-Year-Old ’s Struggle With ‘Truly Disturbing’ Syndrome Doctors Believe Is Related to Coronavirus
Amber Dean had recovered from a mild bout of the coronavirus and her family of five had just ended their home quarantine when her oldest son, 9-year-old Bobby, fell ill.
“At first it was nothing major, it seemed like a tummy bug, like he ate something that didn’t agree with him,” said Dean, who lives with her husband and three young children in the western New York town of Hornell. “But by the next day, he couldn’t keep anything down and his belly hurt so bad he couldn’t sit up.”
At the local hospital emergency room, doctors suspected an appendix infection and sent him home with in...
Source: TIME: Health - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MARY ESCH / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 New York News Desk wire Source Type: news
CDC Wants Doctors To Look Out For Mystery Illness In Kids That May Be Linked To Coronavirus
(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to release an alert warning doctors to be on the lookout for a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children that could be linked to coronavirus infection, a CDC spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
The syndrome, marked by persistent fever, inflammation, poor function in one or more organs, and other symptoms similar to shock, was first reported by New York officials.
More states began reporting diagnoses of the syndrome this week.
An informal panel of pediatricians organized by Boston Children’s Hospital have dubbed the mysterious illness “Pedia...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Featured Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Boston Children's Hospital CNN Coronavirus Source Type: news
The Lancet: COVID-19 may be linked to rare inflammatory disorder in young children, first detailed reports on 10 patients from Italy suggests
(The Lancet) Doctors in the Bergamo province of Italy [1] have described a series of ten cases of young children with symptoms similar to a rare inflammatory disease called Kawasaki Disease appearing since the COVID-19 pandemic arose in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy, in a report published today in The Lancet. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 13, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
PICTURED: Baby girl is believed to be the first US child with coronavirus and Kawasaki disease
Baby Zara, six months, who was diagnosed on March 16 with coronavirus, is believed to be the first documented case of a child in the US with both the virus and Kawasaki disease. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hyperinflammatory shock in children during COVID-19 pandemic, The Lancet
Authors of these case series of eight children with hyperinflammatory shock suggest it may represent a new phenomenon affecting previously asymptomatic children with SARS-CoV-2 infection manifesting similarly to Kawasaki disease. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rethinking Coronavirus in Children
There is new evidence that some children may become very sick, and we are beginning to learn more about who may be most at risk and what parents need to watch for. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Klass, M.D. Tags: Children and Childhood Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome (PIMS) Kawasaki Disease Epidemics Quarantine (Life and Culture) Source Type: news
At least 3 N.Y. youths die from illness possibly linked to COVID-19
Dozens of cases of "pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome" are reporting some symptoms similar to Kawasaki Disease and toxic shock syndrome (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - May 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mysterious Coronavirus Illness Claims 3 Children in New York
A baffling ailment linked to Covid-19 has killed three young children and sickened 73 others across the state. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs and Edgar Sandoval Tags: your-feed-science Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Children and Childhood Ventilators (Medical) Kawasaki Disease Deaths (Fatalities) your-feed-health Cuomo, Andrew M New York State Source Type: news
