In Great Britain, dozens of children have to be treated in clinics because they have a corona disease.
In most cases, however, they will recover.
In the UK there were over 60,000 new corona infections per day in early January.
Recently, children with a certain secondary disease have been taken to hospitals again and again.
Experts have a simple explanation for this.
Munich - High fever, inflammatory reactions in the body, skin rashes and extreme gastrointestinal problems - symptoms with which up to a hundred children are currently being delivered to British hospitals every week.
According to a report in the
Guardian
, these children have a rare occurrence of
Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome
(PIMS).
Children in the UK suffer from corona complications - often boys
According to the German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, the syndrome usually occurs in children
two to four weeks
after a Sars-CoV-2 infection.
It can therefore be viewed as
a secondary disease
.
The
Guardian
report
said two-thirds of the children affected are
boys
, with an average age of
eleven
.
In most cases, the children were previously healthy and had no specific previous illnesses.
Unfortunately, many children diagnosed with PIMS would have to be
treated
in an
intensive care unit
.
But why are the cases of children with PIMS currently increasing in Great Britain?
The answer is simple.
The virus incidence on the island is still very high.
And with
increasing corona numbers
, rare diseases such as PIMS also occur more frequently.
Most recently, the curve of new infections was clearly down again, but over 18,000 new corona cases were reported in Great Britain on February 6.
At the beginning of January, however, the number of new corona infections was over 50,000 per day - on January 8, even over 68,000.
Great Britain: Rare diseases are also becoming more common due to rising corona numbers
Of the report
Guardian
Experts explain the higher number of diseased with PIMS children simply with the
higher
number of cases in the UK
this winter.
The report also shows that PIMS is found disproportionately often, especially in children of African, Caribbean or Asian origins.
The pediatrician Liz Whittaker
suggests
in the
Guardian
that there is a
connection between social status
and the likelihood of contracting the virus.
More and more people who have
less money
and who
come into contact with the virus more quickly
because of their work or
limited living space are
falling ill
.
PIMS is considered a serious illness - but
most children recover
from the illness.
(kus)
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