Infants, toddlers and preschool children have symptoms of very heartbreaks, but symptoms may be different and more difficult to identify in these children, according to Rutgers Health Research.
The new study is part of the takeover initiative (recovery) and published in financial research to improve research and publish Journal de l’American Medical Association Pediatrics.
Lawrence Kleinman, Professor and Vice-President of the Pediatric Department at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and World Public Health Professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, is the principal researcher of the Long-term collaborative study of COVVI-19 results in children (clock), A national consortium led by Rutgers.
The Covid pandemic started with a myth – that children are spared from its harmful effects. On the other hand, many children were sick with Covid, and we now have a new chronic disease while emerging. We work hard to characterize Long Cavid in children and it will be essential for political decision -makers to ensure that we have adequate resources to support and manage these children now and in the future. “”
Lawrence Kleinman, Professor and Vice-President of the Pediatric Department, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Of the total of 1,011 children included in the study, 472 were infants and toddlers (children 2 or less) and 539 were preschool children (children from 3 to 5 years old). Overall, 101 (15%) of the 677 children with a previous SARS-COV-2 infection were identified as being probably long. The symptoms of the long coconut in these age groups differ from those reported among children and adolescents of school age. Infants and toddlers with a long cocoan were more likely to experience difficulties in sleeping, hurting, bad appetite, blocked nose and cough while preschool children were more likely to feel a cough and diurnal fatigue and low energy.
Researchers said they could confirm that younger children can have a long cocoat. Clinicians and caregivers may not recognize long covids in these children because they are not familiar. The authors also explain that the incapacity of young children to describe what they feel can make the identification of the long cocvid more difficult in this age group. For similar reasons, it is important that pediatricians and family doctors are considering a long coide when children have the symptoms described. The inability to diagnose the very cochered quickly delays treatment and inhibits the availability of children’s support services with a long cocoat.
“This study is the biggest systematic overview of the long coide in young children in the United States,” said Sunanda Gaur, pediatric professor and director of clinical and pediatric research centers at Robert Wood Johnson university hospital. “This suggests that it is a disease to which children, families, pediatricians and the health care and education system will be faced with a generation. »»
