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Coronavirus may present symptoms in children's stomach
Published on: 2020-09-23
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children 01Stomach problems such as diarrhea and vomiting could be crucial COVID-19 symptoms among children and should be added in COVID-19 testing criteria which for now commonly include fever, cough and loss in sense of smell or taste, according to a recent study from Queen’s University Belfast.

The study recruited 992 healthy children between two and 15 years old across Britain, testing their COVID-19 antibodies and collecting data about their symptoms.

It found that nearly 7 percent of the recruited children tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, which means they had been infected before, though only about half of the children who tested positive had shown symptoms.

Among all the different symptoms, fever was the most common, which accounted for 31 percent of all the infected children. The second-most common symptoms were gastrointestinal issues, including diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach cramps, as 13 children showed these signs, making up 19 percent of all those infected.

“Gastrointestinal upset is a relatively common symptom of COVID-19 in children, and adding gastrointestinal upset to the list of symptoms triggering a test in children would improve case-finding,” said the study.

儿童感染新冠肺炎关键征兆:腹泻和呕吐

研究发现,腹泻和呕吐可能是儿童患上新冠肺炎的关键征兆。

判断儿童感染冠状病毒的对照清单目前只包括三种症状:高烧、新发持续咳嗽以及嗅觉或味觉丧失或改变。

对成年人进行的一系列研究指出了肌肉疼痛、疲劳、糊涂、胸口疼痛和胃部不适等症状。伦敦大学国王学院的研究人员对来自新冠肺炎症状研究应用程序的数据进行了分析,这项尚待同行评议的研究发现,成人的症状分为六大类,其中一类主要是肠胃问题。

现在,贝尔法斯特女王大学的研究人员说,他们已经证实,胃部不适是儿童患上新冠肺炎的一种症状,并且这似乎是这种疾病的一个关键征兆。

研究报告的第一作者汤姆•沃特菲尔德说:“在我们的研究对象中,腹泻和呕吐比咳嗽甚或嗅觉和味觉变化更容易预测。要想真正诊断出儿童感染,我们需要开始关注腹泻和呕吐,而不仅仅是上呼吸道症状。”

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