1-year-old child diagnosed with Kawasaki disease after corona infection Expert "Needs verification"

1-year-old child diagnosed with Kawasaki disease after corona infection Expert "Needs verification" September 11, 7:09

It has been pointed out that the new coronavirus is associated with symptoms similar to "Kawasaki disease" that causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body overseas, but at a hospital in Tokyo, a one-year-old boy was infected with the new coronavirus in Kawasaki. I found out that I had been diagnosed with the disease.

Experts say the relationship is unknown and that cases need to be collected and verified in the future.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, a one-year-old boy who was hospitalized for the new coronavirus in March had a fever again three weeks after his discharge.

The boy had symptoms such as a rash and redness on his hands and feet, and he was diagnosed with "Kawasaki disease", so he was treated with a drug that suppresses inflammation and recovered steadily.

Kawasaki disease has long been considered to be a common disease in East Asia such as Japan, but it has been transmitted because children with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease have been reported one after another in Europe and the United States after the spread of the new coronavirus infection. It was pointed out that it was related to.

For this reason, the center conducted antibody tests on 13 other children diagnosed with Kawasaki disease after March to check for past infections, but all were negative.

Dr. Kazuhiro Uda, who was in charge of the treatment, said, "Most Kawasaki diseases are not related to the new coronavirus, so it is difficult to evaluate with just one case. The relationship is unknown in this case, but just in case the child is infected, I want you to be careful for a month or two. "

Kei Takahashi, Chairman of the Kawasaki Disease Society of Japan, said, "There are differences in the severity of symptoms from those reported in Europe and the United States, and the relationship with infection should be carefully considered. In the future, further data will need to be collected and verified." I was talking.