COVID-19 treats several minors in the country’s resuscitation: a threatening complication can occur even after 4-5 weeks

Hospital representatives Delfi interviewed said he was not the only child treated for coronavirus resuscitation. Recently, several minors with severe COVID-19 infection have been treated in various hospitals in the country. According to doctors, infection in children can be very insidious: a threatening complication can occur after 4-5 weeks, even for those who have been asymptomatic.

“Today I went to the end and thought about the arguments on how to convince myself of something else, it will depersonalize the data, but at the moment a child is in resuscitation in Vilnius.

For his life, doctors are fighting for the seventh day, the situation is very complicated. Fourteen year old boy. He is not vaccinated. He got infected from his relatives at home, “the minister told reporters in the Seimas on Thursday.

At the same time, A. Dulkys urged the public: “Perhaps, in fact, we will let everyone think personally and here is the answer for everyone: for companies as well as for employers. There are also many business organizations where few employees are vaccinated. I think maybe we will listen to those stories and draw conclusions. “

More children are being treated in the intensive care unit

Data from the largest hospitals in the country show that the coronavirus can strongly affect not only adults, but also children. For example, the Santara Clinics of the Children’s Hospital of Vilnius University Hospital (VUL) regularly treat up to ten children with more severe forms of COVID-19. Doctors at this hospital must treat children of all ages, from newborn to seventeen years old, due to COVID-19. Some of them end up in resuscitation.

According to Gitana Letukienė, chief public relations specialist of the communication service of the VUL Santara clinics, four children with COVID-19 are currently being treated on the Delfi portal. There were seven on Wednesday.

LSMU Kaunas Hospital is currently treating seven children for COVID-19.

“We constantly have 4-9 children with COVID-19. Today Thursday we have seven. “Children Darius Varaškevičius, head of the Department of Child Admission, Emergencies and Intensive Care at LSMU Kaunas Hospital, told the Delfi portal that children from 1 to 16 years old are arriving.”

Currently, two children are being treated for resuscitation at LSMU Kaunas Hospital due to COVID-19 illness. Such isolated cases have happened before.

Currently, seven children with COVID-19 disease are being treated at the Šiauliai Republican Hospital’s Clinic for Women and Children.

“Currently we do not have children treated in the intensive care unit, but we did,” said Sonata Tenytė, a public relations specialist in the Department of Document Management and Customer Service at Šiauliai Republican Hospital, adding that in addition to the children, 67 Aged adults – 29 to 83 years. Of these, 12 are treated in the Resuscitation and Intensive Care Unit. All have comorbidities. Three patients at Šiauliai Republican Hospital receive high-flow oxygen therapy, nine have artificial lung ventilation, and six receive vasopressor therapy.

Risk groups excluded

D. Varaškevičius, a doctor at LSMU Kaunas Hospital, noted that the main reason why children get the most difficult COVID-19 infection is the various comorbidities.

“Children with Down syndrome, diabetes and lung disease are at risk. They often develop pneumonia,” said the doctor.

According to the doctor, the number of people with severe COVID-19 has also increased recently as children return to kindergartens and schools. He speculated that children in educational institutions are more likely to be infected with the coronavirus because the parents of many children treated in the hospital are vaccinated.

However, according to Dr. Margarita Valūnienė, coordinator of the Childhood Disease Profile at the Šiauliai Republican Hospital Women’s and Children’s Clinic, it is difficult to distinguish a home or educational institution as a more frequent or rare place of infection. Cases of infection are said to be common in both environments.

Children with the COVID-19 disease appeared at the Šiauliai Republican Hospital in early September. According to the doctor, several factors could have caused this: more active contact communication, more aggressive strains of the virus and the general vaccination situation in Lithuania.

Symptoms are more varied

Doctors have noted that coronavirus infection in children can occur slightly differently than in adults.

“Children have more and different symptoms. Often, children initially experience vomiting and diarrhea, have minimal symptoms of coronavirus in adults, and only then does the disease develop its usual symptoms. Adults often come with a clear respiratory infection,” he said Dr. D. Varaškevičius.

Dr. M. Valūnienė said that children with moderate or severe COVID-19 illness are treated in the hospital.

“His clinic is similar to that of adults: pneumonia, pneumonia, fever, cough, shortness of breath, respiratory failure.” It can be noted that gastroenteric symptoms – vomiting, diarrhea, nausea – occur more often than in adults, in addition to the main symptoms ”, – said the doctor.

Dr. Inga Ivaškevičienė, Head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department at the VUL Santara Clinics Children’s Hospital, mentioned to journalists a little earlier that children generally enter the hospital due to COVID-19 when their parents cannot lower their temperature. . . The doctor pointed out that, like adults, children are not protected against pneumonia or certain bacterial complications.

“Another part of the patients who must be hospitalized have concomitant chronic diseases. But the most common symptom that comes to us is a prolonged persistent fever, which cannot be overcome with conventional means at home, ”noted the doctor.

A threatening complication also threatens if you get sick without symptoms.

Dr. I. Ivaškevičienė also said that although the infection is more easily transmitted in children during the acute period, residual phenomena are also quite common in children.

“What is really concerning is that some symptoms can persist for months, such as general fatigue, weakness, muscle pain, pain in the legs, joints and other nonspecific symptoms. This can limit your opportunities to continue your education or attend a team, which can certainly affect your further development.

A particularly difficult situation is when children develop multiple inflammatory syndrome and may need intensive care unit treatment. Fortunately, these cases are not very common, “said the doctor.

Dr. M. Valūnienė also noted that a possible threatening complication of the disease in children is multisystem organ damage.

“It can occur 4-5 weeks after your child has a more severe, asymptomatic, or mild form of COVID-19 infection. Over time, high fever, often diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, “said the interlocutor, adding that the critical age groups of children with COVID-19 are young patients under one year of age and adolescents.

Why should children get vaccinated?

Dr. I. Ivaškevičienė advised parents who doubted whether to vaccinate children against coronavirus or not to choose vaccines.

“No parent can know how seriously their child will become ill, or who will not be the one who enters the Intensive Care Unit and develops multiple inflammatory syndrome or some other serious complication of COVID-19, how they will feel and live, even fit mild infection.

Multiple inflammatory syndrome can also develop in people who have been sick very easily. Some of the parents of our patients did not even know that the children were sick. As a result, they became extremely mildly ill.

We do not know the subsequent consequences of this infection. So every time we get a lottery ticket and we put our son’s health at risk, ”the doctor warned.

Children who have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the doctor, can protect themselves by vaccinating those around them.

“In addition to vaccination, we must not forget nonspecific protection measures: hand hygiene, use of masks,” recalled the doctor from the VUL Santara Children’s Hospital of Clinics.