[사회]Korea’s third confirmation of multi-organ inflammatory syndrome in children … “Stable recovery”

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After suffering Corona 19, the number of patients with multi-organ inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents was confirmed for the third time in Korea.

A 14-year-old girl who was once hospitalized in an intensive care unit, but is now known to be making a stable recovery.

Reporter Dayeon Kim reports.

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Another patient with pediatric multi-organ inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 has emerged.

This is the third case in Korea.

When he was 14, after contacting a confirmed Corona 19 infected patient, he stayed at the Life Therapy Center for 10 days starting on September 8.

After presenting symptoms of fever and diarrhea, he was hospitalized on the 13th of last month, and two days later it was reported as multi-organ inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents.

My condition worsened and I was treated in an intensive care unit for a week, but it is said that I am recovering steadily.

[권준욱 / 중앙방역대책본부 부본부장(어제) : 역학조사하고 사례를 검토한 결과 사례에 부합하는 것으로 최종 판정되었습니다.]

On the 5th of last month, the first case came to light in Korea that was tried as a patient with childhood and adolescent multi-organ inflammatory syndrome.

He was a boy of 11 and 12 years old, and at that time he was hospitalized for fever and abdominal pain.

Quarantine authorities initially judged the 11-year-old boy as Kawasaki disease, but the name of the disease changed two months after the connection to the crown was confirmed.

[정은경 / 중앙방역대책본부장(지난달 5일) : 역학조사와 실험실 검사, 전문가 회의 결과 2명이 사례에 부합하는 것으로….]

Both children are now said to have recovered without complications.

Since the cause of the disease is unknown, the so-called ‘childhood disorder’, this syndrome has been reported in Europe and the United States since last April, it presents symptoms such as high fever, skin rash and red eyes, which can reach to death in severe cases.

It is a complication of Corona 19 and symptoms appear in the recovery phase of 2 to 4 weeks after infection.

Quarantine authorities plan to continue monitoring and investigating cases related to the medical community.

YTN Dayeon Kim[[email protected]]it is.

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