Rajkot: Five children infected with Covid-19 in Rajkot last week and they all have one thing in common – all have their family history or even their family members test positive Coronavirus before.
Seeing the panic of parents, especially among those who have school children, to send their wards to school, or test them for Covid, pediatric people make sure they are most likely not severe complications because of Covid, as far as it concerns Delta variant.
Even for Omicron, they said it might be the same despite the omicron infection case among children today nil.
Children under 18 years in India have not been inoculated with Covid vaccines so far.
According to the doctor, children infected with the first and second waves also have mild symptoms.
Senior pediatrician Dr.
Jay Dhirwani told TII, “Like adults, children who have co-morbid conditions such as obesity or other health problems, need to be more careful.
See the first wave experience and both Coronavirus, very few children suffer Severe conditions.
Children also suffer from post-covid mis-c, but now doctors have been sensitive about it and they will diagnose this disease at the initial stage.
“According to the doctor, with many children who suffer from seasonal colds, cough and fever because of the season Cold now, skeptical parents to send them for Covid testing.
It becomes difficult for doctors to convince parents like that to get their children tested, especially in cases where children do not have a travel history.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in MP Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Dr.
Maulik Shah said, “Parents do not need to be afraid of school children infected with Covid.
Do data, healthy children have not shown symptoms or serious complications to date.
Most of them remain asymptomatic or only have mild symptoms.
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Shah further said that even in the case of Omicron variants, deaths among children will not rarely occur except in high-risk cases and suggest covering schools for fear.
Dr Divyag Bhimani, a pediatrician based in Rajkot said, “Light Delta variant for children, and we did not find many critical cases among pediatric patients in the second wave.
However, we do not have enough information about the new omicron variant.
We must be careful, especially when the school has reopened and this population (school children) is not vaccinated.
“Dr.
Pressur Kamani, President of the Indian Medical Association, said Rajkot,” Children who suffer from allergic asthma, type 1 diabetes, thalassemia Major, Malnutrition, Obesity or Genetic Disease need extra carefully.
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