Responding to a listener of "Sans Rendez-vous" who is worried about her two-year-old daughter, Doctor Jimmy Mohamed, health consultant of Europe 1, recommends, ideally, to have his child tested if he presents. symptoms of Covid-19.

Problem: not all centers offer saliva tests (yet).

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A toddler with a runny or coughing nose, and these are a host of questions that arise in the minds of his parents, after more than a year of the Covid-19 epidemic.

Should the smaller ones be tested, even if the long rod introduced into the nose for a PCR or antigen test can be scary?

This is the question asked by the mother of a two-year-old girl to doctor Jimmy Mohamed, health consultant of Europe 1, on Wednesday, in

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"A runny nose can be a sign of Covid"

According to the doctor, the concern is understandable.

"During the first wave, faced with this kind of symptoms, we said that it was a simple rhinitis and not the Covid. But either we were wrong, or the virus has evolved, especially with the variants which are many more contagious ", recognizes Jimmy Mohamed.

"In any case, we have younger and younger patients at the moment. And indeed, a runny nose in a child can be a sign of Covid, until proven guilty."

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The answer is therefore yes: the test is recommended.

"Normally, the tests can be done in the form of saliva", assures the health consultant of Europe 1. "But not all the centers do it, and it is a real problem."

The solution is not systematically offered in pharmacies either, for lack of adequate equipment.

A test carried out "at the entrance of the nose"

For those who should go to an ordinary center or to the doctor with a young child, Jimmy Mohamed therefore delivers the advice he applies on a personal basis.

"When I have to do an antigen test on a child, before possibly doing a PCR test, I do it at the entrance of the nose. I get boogers, it's better than nothing and we avoid traumatizing the child. "

To the best of my mind.