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A recent Italian study has raised the alarm about a possible duplication of the emerging coronavirus threat to children, as it appears to have caused a mutation of Kawasaki disease in some of them.
According to the study authors, the Covid-19 virus caused an approximately 30-fold mutation in cases of severe and rare respiratory infections in children.
The Bloomberg newspaper said a detailed analysis of “Bergamo,” the epicenter of Italy’s new Corona epidemic, found that there are about 10 cases of a disease very similar to “Kawasaki” disease that doctors in Europe and the United States Together they drew, which is a danger to children if it is related to a covid infection – 19.
The 10 cases that have been discovered could be the Kawasaki mutation or the mutation due to its “sympathy” with the emerging coronavirus.
This report is in addition to other reports in which health centers had announced about 90 similar cases in both New York and London.
Kawasaki disease is a rare condition that affects children under the age of five and generally causes vasculitis and swelling.
Typical symptoms include fever, rash, red eyes, dry or chapped lips, or even comfortable, red hands and soles of the feet, and swollen glands.
While the emerging coronavirus is even less dangerous for children than for adults, research published Thursday in the Lancet medical journal showed that the risk to children’s lives is not entirely non-existent.
“This risk must be taken into account when formulating guidelines on when and how children should be allowed to mix,” said Lancet.
“In our experience, a very small percentage of children with SARS CoV-2 show symptoms of Kawasaki disease,” Bergamo pediatrician Papa Giovanni and one of the study’s authors, Analisa Gervasoni, said in an emailed statement.
He then continued: “It is important to understand the consequences of the virus on children, especially as countries around the world are rushing to start easing policies of social divergence.”
Usually about a quarter of affected children have cardiac complications, but cases are rarely fatal if treated appropriately.
The authors said that the “Covid” cases should be classified as “Kawasaki-like disease” because the symptoms in the ten patients with inflammation diagnosed during the pandemic were different and more severe compared to 19 cases of Kawasaki disease.
The research team also noted that patients who were treated during the epidemic with standard intravenous immunoglobulin standard treatment methods for Kawasaki disease did not fully recover and some of them did not fully recover.
Members of the research team said this “is probably due to the coronavirus.”
