Bhubaneswar: In the midst of many cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (eg) post-covid infection among children, the pediatris has advised people to immediately visit the hospital if their ward shows the possibility of symptoms of eg such as fever, headaches, headaches and respiratory problems After recovery.
“MIS in children is a condition where different parts of the body include the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, and liver can be inflamed.
Maybe it happens four weeks after one Covid contract.
Although it is very rare among children -The child, it can turn fatal if not treated earlier, “said the doctor.
Niranjan Mishra’s public health director revealed that MIS-C was not significantly detected among children during the first wave.
“But we have received several cases of children affected by this syndrome after recovering from Covid.
We think it is a post-covid complication,” he said, adding that care is available for this condition.
“If people take their wards to the hospital immediately after MIS-C symptoms are arranged, they can be treated and saved from this inflammatory syndrome.
Delays in care can improve the morbidity and mortality of children,” he warned.
“We arrange for ICU beds, HTUs for children in hospitals.
Oxygen beds are being established at the District Head Office Hospital,” he said.
Pradeep Kumar Dey, Senior Consultant, Pediatric and Neonatology Department, Ultimate Medicare, said, “This is a very rare syndrome that affects 10 to 20 children in one lakh.
If the fever continues for more than two days and children show other symptoms, including Diarrhea and abdominal pain, we do some tests to ascertain whether it is the case of mis-c.
“Then said MIS-C has three subtypes – Mis-C with socks, MIS-C without socks and Mis-C with Kawasaki’s disease phenotype.
The third is characterized by fever, redness of conjunctiva, red lips and / or cracks, strawberry tongues, rashes, hands and feet swollen and abnormal enlargement of lymph nodes in the neck and head, he added.
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