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Doctors in England are warning about new symptoms related to the coronavirus pandemic, or potentially a new virus, that is sending children into intensive care.
The British National Health Service warned over the weekend about a new syndrome that is causing symptoms similar to toxic shock and atypical Kawasaki disease in children, a serious condition that causes heart disease.
Children who have tested positive for the coronavirus and some who have tested negative are reportedly experiencing the symptoms.
The alert said the condition appears to be rare but pediatricians should look out for children with stomach pain, diarrhea “and rapid progress to a shock-like picture.”
Toxic shock symptoms include a high fever that comes on quickly, low blood pressure, diarrhea or vomiting, muscle aches, confusion, headache and seizures, according to The Mayo Clinic. It can also cause “a rash resembling a sunburn, particularly on your palms and soles.”
A very high fever is also one of the main symptoms of Kawasaki disease, according to The Mayo Clinic. Other early symptoms include dry, cracked lips, red eyes, swollen lymph nodes and red, swollen skin on the feet and hands.
originally posted by: MaplePatriot
Anyone else seeing a pattern of fear yet?
"Oh its just the immunocompromised and older patients"
"Now young people are getting blood clots"
"No babies are getting kawasaki"
Sigh.
originally posted by: rickymouse
The kids may not be eating enough salt. Swelling of the brain is a symptom of hyponatremia. Salt can help our body to have a less critical bout of coronavirus. People do not understand what low sodium and chloride levels can do in our bodies if it is going on for a while. I posted a link about extra risk happens with low salt in the diet. I ran low on salt when we started cooking most of our meals at home years ago, restaurant food has much more salt in it and my levels went too low. I learned from my mistake and now our food tastes a lot better again.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
This could be a contributing factor as people think that if the kids are healthier, they will not get sick. This applies to this virus more than it does to the flu or a cold, but even with those, hyponatremia can be a problem.
originally posted by: Jonjonj
The idea that this is pneumonic I think is going to fall apart very soon. Once the research hits the mainstream; this is a blood disease regarding oxygenation and NOT a respiratory disease regarding oxygenation, we can treat the cause and not the symptons.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
originally posted by: Jonjonj
The idea that this is pneumonic I think is going to fall apart very soon. Once the research hits the mainstream; this is a blood disease regarding oxygenation and NOT a respiratory disease regarding oxygenation, we can treat the cause and not the symptons.
I think if doctors weren’t prohibited from using CPAP machines to mitigate the need for last-resort ventilators, we would find they would save a lot of lives.
88% of patients on ventilators have died.
All to protect healthcare workers from possible exposure via CPAP machines. It’s criminal.
The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is an infectious acute respiratory caused by the novel coronavirus. The virus is a positive-strand RNA virus with high homology to bat coronavirus. In this study, conserved domain analysis, homology modeling, and molecular docking were used to compare the biological roles of specific proteins of the novel coronavirus. The results showed that some viral structural and nonstructural proteins could bind to the porphyrin, respectively. At the same time, orf1ab, ORF10 and ORF3a proteins coordinated to attack heme on the 1-beta chain of hemoglobin, dissociating iron to form porphyrin. Deoxyhemoglobin is more vulnerable to virus attacks than oxidized hemoglobin. The attack will cause less and less hemoglobin that can carry oxygen and carbon dioxide, producing symptoms of respiratory distress. Virus attack damaged many organs and tissues. Lung cells are toxic and inflammatory due to derivatives produced by the attack, which eventually resulted in ground-glass-like lung images. Capillaries easily broken due to inflammation. Proteins such as fibrinogen filled the capillaries' cracks through the coagulation reaction. Therefore, many fibrin and thrombus gathered in the lung tissue of critically ill patients. The mechanism also interfered with the normal heme anabolic pathway of the human body, expecting to result in human disease. This paper is only for academic discussion, the correctness of the theory needs to be confirmed by other experiments. According to the reader's suggestion, the content of the drug-related efficacy analysis has been deleted. Due to the side effects of drugs, please consult a qualified doctor for detailed treatment information, and do not take the drug yourself. We look forward to these discoveries bringing more ideas to people and inspiring people's confidence in defeating the virus.
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originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: neoholographic
Question... People are still out shopping, having parties, gathering in places with more than 10 people, handling money that went through hundreds of hands in the same few days, touching items at the store that haven't been disinfected, etc.. What makes you think the virus isn't spreading just like it would in normal America? I work with 8 people who were sent home with the virus, 3 had underlying health conditions, and all survived with minimal side effects.
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: neoholographic
Question... People are still out shopping, having parties, gathering in places with more than 10 people, handling money that went through hundreds of hands in the same few days, touching items at the store that haven't been disinfected, etc.. What makes you think the virus isn't spreading just like it would in normal America? I work with 8 people who were sent home with the virus, 3 had underlying health conditions, and all survived with minimal side effects.
Good for you!!
Other members here have had friends/family die
If you go into the hospital because you had a stroke and you test positive for covid, then Covid is the cause of your stroke.
originally posted by: Jonjonj
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: LSU2018
a reply to: neoholographic
Question... People are still out shopping, having parties, gathering in places with more than 10 people, handling money that went through hundreds of hands in the same few days, touching items at the store that haven't been disinfected, etc.. What makes you think the virus isn't spreading just like it would in normal America? I work with 8 people who were sent home with the virus, 3 had underlying health conditions, and all survived with minimal side effects.
Good for you!!
Other members here have had friends/family die
This is very sad to hear and of course condolences are given.
However, and importantly, IF giving the completely wrong treatment is allowed to continue many more will die than the already many who have died unnecessarily, and who wants that?