Do parents need to be concerned about mysterious syndrome developing in some COVID-positive kids

Some children who have had COVID-19 are developing strange symptoms in response to the virus and it has parents worried.

Local doctors spoke Wednesday about the need for concern.

Hunter petroviak.thanks for joining us.

Around the country, some children who have had covid-19 are developing strange symptoms in response to the virus and it has parents worried, but is there cause for caleb ?fox 55 saylor is live in fort wayne to explain what doctors are saying about these symptoms. caleb?the allen county health department hosted a discussion panel today to talk about a number of different covid related topics impacting children.

One of those being what called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children or mis-c multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children has only recently been discovered in children whoe had covid-19.

It similar to something called kawasaki disease, another inflammatory disease that been known about for dozens of years, but james cameron with lutheran hospital says they are not the same.

T found that children that had a past history of a covid-19 diagnosis were showing up with findings that consisted of a persisting fever, low blood pressure, multiorgan involvement and that included anything from the heart, the intestines, the kidneys, the blood, the skin or the nervous system.

Pediatrician tony giaquinta says not much is known about the syndrome.

Both because it new and so few cases are being reported.

T is extre ely rare, so while we still learning more about it, this is a die ase that we seen in less than a hundred cases of children throughout the united states so far.

Majority of those cases were reported in new york state two weeks ago.

Only one case of mis-c has been documented here in indiana.

This disease only affects children and as the number of children diagosed with covid-19 increases, the cases of mis-c are expected to increase as well.

Cameron says mis-c is a reaction from getting covid-19, not something kids can catch, so as children head back to school next year, this is not something you need to worry about your kid getting from one f their classmates t an immune response in the body that is not associated with them being contagious necessarily, this is their body trying to figure out what happened inside their body.

It e ot something they oing to give to someone else.- just to say agai , mis-c is a child body reaction to having had covid-19 spread y can it to other kids, and the only way to prevent your child from developing mis-c is to try and prevent them from getting covid-19reporting live in fort wayne, caleb saylor, fox 55 news.

Both giaquinta and cameron say that if you need to take your child to the pediatrician for any reason, offices are ready to safely see