According to American pediatricians, the variant of the Omicron coronavirus would cause laryngitis in young children. No deaths have been reported so far, but 12% of patients have required hospitalization, doctors said.
Attack of acute coughing and wheezing
Doctors at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), have noted the appearance of a new symptom of variant Omicron in a report recently published in the American journal Pediatrics. This strain of coronavirus would cause more laryngitesan inflammation of the larynx, the tube that connects the throat to the trachea.
This new symptom related to variant Omicron affects young people children, and especially boys under 2 years old. Affected pups have a high-pitched coughing fit accompanied by wheezing similar to a seal’s cry.
“These are not necessarily serious cases, we manage to treat them with corticosteroids”
According to the data relayed CNewsdoctors reportedly treated 75 children with Covid-19 and affected by these symptoms. About 81% of them would have contracted the variant Omicron. Due to violent coughing, 12% of the children have been treated in hospital, but at this stage, no deaths have been reported.
Raïssa Brulé-Pépin, pediatrician at the University Hospital of Amiens (Somme), told the newspaper The Parisianwhat “For about a month, we have seen more laryngitis in children aged 3 to 4 and when we screen them, they are positive” to coronavirus. However, she assured that the situation is not worrying. “These are not necessarily serious cases, we manage to treat them with corticosteroids”.
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