COVID in Kids: The Most Telling Symptoms

By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Among hundreds of children checked for COVID-19, an indigestion, loss of taste/smell, high temperature as well as migraine were signs and symptoms most anticipating of favorable examination outcomes, a Canadian research discovered.

But one-third of youngsters as well as teenagers with the coronavirus revealed no signs and symptoms, the scientists kept in mind.

“Because more than one-third of pediatric patients who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection exhibit no symptoms, identifying children who are likely to be infected is challenging. Indeed, the proportion of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in children is likely much higher than we have reported, given the likelihood that many would not present for testing,” Dr. Finlay McAlister, of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as well as co-authors claimed.

Cough as well as a dripping nose were likewise constant amongst children that checked favorable, yet the detectives claimed those very same issues prevailed amongst children that checked adverse as well as could not be taken into consideration telltale indicators of COVID-19 infection.

“Many other influenza-like symptoms (such as cough, [runny nose] and sore throat) were as common, or more common, in children testing negative for SARS-CoV-2,” as well as hence had actually restricted anticipating worth for discovering COVID-19 in youngsters,” the writers created in the Nov. 24 problem of the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

The searchings for recommend that “administrators of screening questionnaires for schools or daycares may wish to consider reassessing the symptoms they screen for to include only those that are most strongly associated with positive results for swabs for SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the scientists reported.

For the research, they examined signs and symptoms amongst greater than 2,400 youngsters in the district of Alberta, Canada, that were checked for the coronavirus in between April 13 as well as Sept. 30, 2020.

Loss of smell/taste was 7 times greater in children with COVID-19; indigestion was 5 times most likely, as well as migraine was two times as most likely, the detectives discovered. Fever was 68% most likely in children with a favorable examination outcome.

In children with loss of smell/taste incorporated with migraine as well as indigestion, the chances of a favorable examination were 65 times greater contrasted to youngsters as well as teenagers without that collection of signs and symptoms, according to the research.