Like others, Erin Thomassen thought her 4-year-old son wouldn't get really sick from COVID-19. But after his experience with MIS-C, she's warning others.
Nearly two months ago, after Erin Thomassen’s entire family had mild cases of COVID-19, her 4-year-old son, Alex Young, complained that his neck hurt him badly. He could barely pick up his head. Then he developed a 105.1 degree fever. While fever reducers helped, it kept returning with distressing new symptoms.
Mild COVID-19 infection leads to MIS-CIn June, Thomassen’s husband, Steve Young, came home when his cataract surgery was delayed because he had tested positive for COVID-19. He didn’t have severe symptoms just slight headaches, sniffles and a loss of sense of taste and smell. “It was awful,” she said. “It was really scary. They had to hold him down so they could get the IVs in his arms.”MIS-C resembles Kawasaki disease, a vascular inflammatory syndrome that affects children 5 and younger. Children with this illness experience prolonged fever, rash, red swollen hands and feet, cracked lips and inflammation that can harm the coronary arteries.
“He’s always been just super happy, joking constantly, getting in trouble because he jokes too much,” she said. “We’re starting to see his little smile again.”“They’re saying he had very minimal damage,” she said. “They won’t know for sure for a while.”
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