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Children’s Covid! What you should know about MIS-C (Missy) and Long COVID in Children

from a survey of the long-term effects on the health of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 of the Medical Department through the website of the Department of Medical Services In adults, most symptoms of long covid are mild to moderate. The top 10 most common symptoms are:

  1. tired
  2. Difficulty breathing/suffocating
  3. cough
  4. can not sleep
  5. headache
  6. hair loss
  7. dizziness
  8. Anxiety/stress
  9. short memory
  10. chest pain

Dr. Adisai Phattatang, Director of Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health It said MIS-C syndrome (Misssy) was first reported in April 2020 in the United Kingdom. After that, there have been more and more reports. It is more common in boys than girls.

Found in children of all age groups. The average age is 8-10 years. The incidence is approximately 0.03% of all pediatric cases. Children often come with symptoms of high fever, rash, red lips, conjunctivitis, enlarged lymph nodes, vomiting, diarrhea, some with breathlessness, pneumonia, and shock from abnormal heart function

More than 50 percent of pediatric patients need treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit because of shock. This condition can be life threatening. The mortality rate is about 3 percent. It can be treated with immunoglobulin and steroids. Most patients respond well to treatment.

In the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health found 15 patients with this condition, of which no deaths have been found. But still need to follow up with continued treatment, it was found that 7-14 percent still had abnormal heart function.

In addition, the institute There is also a periodic monitoring program for children infected with coronavirus who are admitted to the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health to monitor the condition of Long COVID (Long COVID). Severe complications and the institute continue to monitor the children continuously