New symptoms of corona virus among school children

It seems that the return of children to school revealed new symptoms of the emerging corona virus, while this virus still worries the whole world due to the ambiguity of its symptoms and the reasons for its infection, etc., and with every day scientists are trying to discover anything new about the epidemic.

British health experts have alerted to new symptoms in children with corona, saying that current medical guidelines do not refer to them as signs of transmission.

According to a study issued by the University of Belfast in Ireland, these symptoms among children are concentrated in the digestive system, and include diarrhea, stomach pain and nausea.

Symptoms are not included

The study also confirmed that these symptoms are not included in the list of the Public Health Authority in Britain, which includes coughing, fever and loss of sense of smell and taste.

The warning comes to this Symptoms Among children, while young people are returning to school in a number of countries of the world, while some governments have preferred to combine physical education with distance education, for fear of an epidemic.

The health authorities are also afraid to include these digestive disorders among the symptoms of corona infection, in order to avoid any excessive confusion or anxiety among people.

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The study relied on a large sample of 992 children aged on average to 10 years, and then blood tests were conducted for them, to detect whether they had been infected with the Corona virus.

The results of the study, published in the journal "Med Reflexes", revealed that 68 children developed antibodies, that is, they were actually infected with the emerging corona virus before.

turbulence

In turn, a number of children who were infected with the virus confirmed that they suffered symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain, but these disorders were transient and none of them had to be hospitalized, according to the British newspaper, “Mirror”.

Meanwhile, 50 percent of the positive cases among children confirmed that they did not feel any symptoms despite being infected with the emerging coronavirus.

The danger is still the same

till then, indicate Global health data so far indicates that the elderly are the most vulnerable to complications from the Corona virus or death from it, while children, especially those under the age of ten, remain among the least affected.

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Health expert, Tom Waterfield, said in Permit Journalist, that vomiting and diarrhea are among the symptoms, and therefore, adding them to the list of common symptoms of the emerging corona is worthy of study.