China News Service, May 15 (BBC), according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), recently, there have been rare cases of childhood inflammatory syndrome in Britain and the United States, which has attracted the attention of the medical community. There are similar cases of children in other European countries. Some children have symptoms similar to toxic shock and Kawasaki disease. Doctors believe that these cases of inflammation may be related to the new coronavirus.

Information picture: The picture shows the British intensive care unit, medical staff are taking care of people with new crown virus infection.

There are about 100 children in the UK

　　In the UK, there are about 100 children, most of whom do not have severe lung and breathing problems, and some children recover quickly after getting sick, but 7 children need to enter the intensive care unit, Use a ventilator to help improve their heart and circulation problems.

　　From April, doctors in the National Health Care System (NHS) of the United Kingdom were notified to pay attention to this rare and dangerous reaction that New Coronavirus may cause in children.

　　At that time, it was because British doctors discovered that eight children in London were hospitalized with similar symptoms, and one of the 14-year-olds died. Symptoms of these children include high fever, rash, red eyes, swelling, and body pain.

　　Doctors described this rare new disease as similar to Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki disease is a rare disease that mainly affects children under 5 years of age. Its main symptoms include rash, fever, swollen neck lymph, and chapped lips. But this rare disease also affects young people under the age of 16, and a few of them will have serious complications.

　　Dr. Liz Whittaker, a clinical lecturer in pediatric infectious diseases and immunology at Imperial College London, said the condition occurred during the New Crown Outbreak, indicating a connection between the two. This means that the symptoms may be related to the increased antibodies in the body after being infected with the virus.

Data Map: On April 14, local time, microbiologists are testing nucleic acids at the Medici Army Medical Center Laboratory in Lewis-McCord, Washington, USA.

Expert: Symptoms "very rare"

　　Professor Russell Viner, Dean of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, said that most children are treated well, and they get better and go home to recuperate. Wiener said the symptom was "very rare."

　　Wiener also said that a better understanding of this child's inflammatory syndrome may help explain why some children are so sick after the new crown, while the vast majority of children are unaffected or asymptomatic. Children are believed to account for 1-2% of the total number of new coronary pneumonia cases, and fewer than 500 hospitalized cases.

　　Michael Levin, professor of pediatrics and international child health at Imperial College London, explained that most children are negative in the new coronavirus test, but the antibody test is positive. Therefore, Lewin said that this symptom may be related to the body's specific immune response to the virus.

　　But at the same time, Lewin said that people now need to learn more about this immune response and understand it, because people only know this in the past two or three weeks.

　　In addition, this means that after children are infected with the new coronavirus, it seems that their bodies can be affected for up to 6 weeks. This is why this new symptom in children will begin to appear only a few weeks after the peak of adult cases.

On March 23, local time, I visited the intensive care unit of Cremona Hospital in southeastern Milan, Italy. Medical staff are treating patients with severe new coronary pneumonia.

Similar cases in many countries in Europe and America

　　In addition to the United Kingdom, similar cases have occurred in the United States, Spain, Italy, France and the Netherlands.

　　In the United States, at least 15 states are studying this rare disease in children. In 82 cases of inflammation in children in New York, 53 cases of new coronavirus test were positive or had new coronavirus antibody. The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) will release warnings and the latest definitions of the child's syndrome to medical services this week.

　　At the same time, according to a study conducted by Italian doctors on the 10 hospitalized children involved in the most severely affected areas in the north of the country, children aged around 7 years are often more severe. They have cardiac complications and toxic shock.

　　At the same time, these children also need additional treatment with steroids. The 10 children were admitted to Bergamo Hospital at the time, but they all recovered. Among them, 8 children tested positive for the new coronavirus antibody, and 2 did not.

　　Doctors believe that the swab test for these children's new coronavirus is meaningless, because the inflammatory reaction they often occur only weeks after infection.

　　The author of the study, Dr. Vertoni, said that although this complication is very rare, their study provides further evidence of how the virus affects children.

　　British child health experts believe that this disease may affect more than children. British doctors are currently working with researchers in the United States and European countries, hoping to find more relevant information. They currently call this phenomenon "Pediatric Multiple System Inflammatory Syndrome" (PIMS-TS).