Coronavirus in children has its own specific characteristics that can help parents notice the presence of infection in a timely manner.
Chinese scientists analyzed symptoms coronavirus in children aged 1 month to 12 years. It turned out that at the initial stage COVID-19 manifests itself differently in underage patients than in adults.
Most often, children with coronavirus show the following symptoms:
- heat,
- vomiting and diarrhea.
These symptoms are rarely diagnosed in adults. For example, fever occurs in 44% of adults and 76% of children.
And the symptoms that occur in adults during the peak of infection, such as shortness of breath and pulmonary insufficiency, appear in children only at a critical stage, if it occurs.In addition, cough remains a specific symptom of COVID-19 in both adults and children.
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