The second wave of the pandemic has affected children severely than the first wave. Several MIS-C cases have been observed in post-Covid patients between 4-18 years of age.
Important: How MIS-C Syndrome Affects Children Post COVID-19
Though the exact cause for this syndrome has not been concluded yet, it appears that it is the result of an excessive immune response related to COVID-19.
| 8 May 2021 1:51 PM GMT
New Delhi- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but dangerous medical condition that is linked with COVID-19 infections. Children who go on to develop this condition experience inflammation in their organs as tissues such as the heart, lungs, blood vessels, kidneys, digestive system, brain, skin, or eyes.
A case of an 11-year-old child diagnosed with MIS-C syndrome undergoing treatment in the SRCC hospital showed that he had been infected with the COVID-19 virus four weeks prior to being admitted to the hospital. While the test reports conducted earlier were consistently showing him to be negative, it was found out that he was asymptomatic, therefore his COVID-induced condition was left undetected, unnoticed a