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In Singapore, an anti-coronavirus antibody was born in the blood of a child, the local Star Times reported. The girl’s mother was infected with the virus in March while on vacation in Europe. The newborn is not infected, has a negative PCR test, but has antibodies to the virus in his blood plasma.
The mother, Celine Ng-Chan, 31, said her antibodies entered the fetus’s blood during pregnancy. This is also interesting because there are no antibodies present in the mother’s blood, but in her healthy child. The woman was hospitalized with Covid symptoms in the 10th week of pregnancy and received treatment for two weeks, but she eventually recovered and the fetus was also not harmed.
The first trimester of pregnancy is more dangerous in this regard, and most febrile viral infections have fetal harm. This is one reason why special emphasis is being placed on vaccinating pregnant women against influenza, which has become more important during the H1N1 pandemic. In light of the above, it is gratifying that the boy named Aldrin has had no fetal damage, was born weighing 3,500 grams, and has been in good acorn health ever since.
However, it is not yet clear whether the antibodies in your plasma will protect you from the virus in the future.
Otherwise, coronavirus infection is rare among newborns and, as far as we know, they are generally not transmitted from their mothers, even if the mothers were infected during pregnancy or delivery. This has been demonstrated by initial experience in Italy and China, and is also evident from the results of a study of approximately 120,000 cases, which appeared in one of the most prestigious medical journals, the English Lancet.
In the newborn cases discovered so far, a relatively high proportion of hospital causes were among the causes, so young people did not necessarily contract the disease from their mother, at least in English hospitals. If babies are infected, their symptoms are more or less similar to those of their older counterparts. The most common symptoms are fever, vomiting, and loss of appetite. Shortness of breath and lethargy are also relatively common among them, while around 10 per cent of newborns infected with the coronavirus were completely asymptomatic in the English study.
Although the virus can be found in breast milk, it appears that breastfeeding covid mothers do not generally infect their babies more often than those who use formula, at least according to a study published in the Pediatric Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA Pediatrics). However, the authors added in both important studies that our knowledge on the subject is constantly expanding and the recommendations will be updated accordingly.
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