As the number of kids with a rare syndrome known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children grows, the mother of a Michigan boy offers hope.
He never had any symptoms of COVID-19, and her family has been following social distancing guidelines during the stay-at-home order.
Reports had emerged from around the world about children like Levi who were exhibiting symptoms of a newly identified pediatric inflammatory syndrome linked to the virus with some symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dubbed it Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, or MIS-C, and issued an advisory May 14, asking doctors to watch for and report cases to public health officials. Children with this condition can have any of the following symptoms:
It also affects a wide age-range of children — from the very young to older teens, Kimberlin said, citing research that suggests the average age of those affected is 8-10 years old. "This hyper inflammatory syndrome ... has been showing up in areas of the world where, within the prior three or four weeks, the COVID-19 virus had started circulating, and most but not all of these children test positive in some form or fashion for the COVID virus," said Kimberlin, who also is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
There, Dr. Bishara Freij, chief of pediatric infectious disease at Beaumont Children's, evaluated Levi for MIS-C. The disease is new, Freij said, so doctors don't know what might trigger it in some children, but not others. But some of his patients are participating in research to try to find immune system clues that may answer those questions. When he was admitted to the hospital May 5, his primary problems were fever and vomiting. But by the next day, Peck said his abdominal pain worsened.
Negative for coronavirus, positive for antibodiesLevi was swabbed three times to test him for coronavirus. All three times, the test came back negative. But an antibody blood test showed that the first-grader had antibodies in his blood from the virus. That means he likely contracted it, but was asymptomatic until this cascade of inflammatory problems struck. "He hasn't really gone anywhere," she said."He goes outside, but it's just me and him.
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