![]() We do not know enough about test-to-stay in kids under 5. And I'm wondering if there are any studies that have been done on the test-to-stay protocols for kids under the age of 5. Q: I have an almost 3-year-old toddler in day care, and she obviously isn't eligible for COVID vaccination, but we've had several program closures due to exposures to COVID cases in the classroom in the fall semester. Hilary Anderson Carter, Austin, Texas - 2-year-old daughter But COVID is just outpacing that across the board.Ĭhildren have become masters at the temperature check. And currently we are seeing influenza spread in our community. In kids, partly because COVID seems to cause the initial infection and then just track through the body and cause post-COVID syndromes, it is worse than influenza. But it's still pretty severe, and it can cause significant symptoms in a small group of children - not across the board, but a small subset that do end up with more severe symptoms and end up in the hospital. Where in the context of recently dealing with delta - which was much worse than the virus that was spreading 2020 - omicron is milder than delta. What we know so far is that omicron is milder in both children and adults. Q: What do we know about the severity and risk of the omicron variant to children? Does it seem to be more dangerous than previous variants, is it about the same, or less so? 4-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son ![]() The questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity. “Understanding that children may exhibit symptoms that are different to adults is useful in order for GPs and our teams, as well as our specialist paediatric colleagues, to identify the virus in children and respond appropriately,” he said.Shots - Health News With omicron, you need a mask that means businessĪs the world enters its third year of the pandemic, we asked parents of kids under 5 to send us their questions. Prof Martin Marshall, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, welcomed the study. “Many children would be missing a lot of school, and the majority of children being tested would still be negative.” ![]() “The harms of that approach are very tangible,” he said. Spector said the difference in symptoms with age were probably down to differences in the way the immune system responded to the virus, and he said the team were now calling for parents to track their children’s symptoms on the app to help the team spot school outbreaks quickly.ĭr Tom Waterfield of Queen’s University Belfast, who was not involved in the research, said the findings chimed with his own work showing that symptoms such as fatigue, headaches and an upset stomach were common among children with Covid-19, while symptoms such as coughs were rarer than in adults.ĭr Sanjay Patel, a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at Southampton children’s hospital cautioned that while the NHS checklist would not mean all children with Covid were detected, it still allowed school outbreaks to be spotted, while many of the symptoms highlighted by the new study could be the result of a host of different illnesses, and keeping children home based on such signs could be problematic. ![]() “One in six children will have and many times it will be the only sign, and you don’t get a funny rash with most coughs, colds flus.” “It is certainly as important as the other features, and in children it is much more important,” he said. The team have previously argued rashes should be added to the official list of symptoms, noting that they also appear in adults with Covid. While Spector noted some of the symptoms in children overlapped with those for colds, which could become increasingly problematic as the winter months approach, other symptoms, such as skin rashes, were unusual. “What we want to do here is not push to have tests, but just keep them away from school ,” he said. “If you followed the government’s advice you’d be missing half of the infections,” he said, adding that teachers and parents needed to be aware that the virus can present differently in children and adults. Spector noted that of children who tested positive and had symptoms, around a half didn’t have any of the three main signs listed by the NHS. ![]() Sore throats were present in around 38% of the children with symptoms, while almost 35% skipped meals, 15% had an unusual skin rash and 13% had diarrhoea.īy contrast, the team has found that the most common symptoms in adults are fatigue, headache, a persistent cough, sore throat and loss of smell. More than half of the Covid-positive children with symptoms – 55% – had fatigue, while 54% had a headache and almost half had a fever. ![]()
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