More than 5,200 of the 6,200,000 US children diagnosed with Covid have developed MIS-C, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Scientists around the world are now searching for answers.
Yonker, a pediatric pulmonologist at Boston’s MassGeneral Hospital for Children, recently found evidence that the source of those symptoms could be the coronavirus, which canThe Journal of Clinical Investigation
The body breaks down viral RNA very quickly, Chou said, so it’s unlikely that genetic material from a Covid infection would still be found in a child’s stool one month later. If it is, it’s most likely because the coronavirus has set up shop inside an organ, such as the gut.In some children, the virus irritates the intestinal lining, creating microscopic gaps that allow viral particles to escape into the bloodstream, Yonker said.
“We don’t see live virus replicating in the blood,” Yonker said. “But spike proteins are breaking off and leaking into the blood.” Yonker prescribed larazotide for four other children, including Dante, who also received a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. He got better.
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