This is concerning

[owlstwooting]

Significant alert in respect of Children and Paediatric shock. It has been reported that over the past three weeks, there has been a rise in the number of Children presenting with a multisystem inflammatory state requiring intensive care.

Looks legit, sadly

mobile.twitter.com/ThePalpitations/status/1254529121134264322

[Remmy123]

I know someone who works in a children's ward in London .. only two with covid, just to reassure you

[Rodentsinmygarden]

My son had a really weird tummy bug in mid March was literally on and off for nearly 10 days with a gap in the middle I wonder if this could have been it

[EricaNernie]

but the likely affected is said to be small.

[RigaBalsam]

Op you don't deserve the pile on for discussing a worrying issue.

[LEELULUMPKIN]

the band they play in also exists. On balance I would say it’s legit

You are winding us up, right?

[Rodentsinmygarden]

guys this is not a twitter hoax it is being reported by.multiple news outlets

[Didkdt]

Drs look to be still trying to verify if this is true and if other countries have encountered this
But the title of this thread is ridiculous. Could you not at least try and link it to the thread content

[catinasplat]

It does seem to be true, but how stupid to circulate on Twitter like that. The info shoudl have been released in a more responsible way.

[Itisasecret]

This is legit and is widely being reported on. I think this will but the brakes on schools opening any time soon. No one wants sick children on their conscience.

[Branster]

OP just ignore the mean comments.
Thank you for sharing. It is a useful post because others were able to find official sources of information so it is very good to highlight ‘small’ stories like these. And thank you to those who shared the more in depths links.
How else would we learn about what is going on?
What seems insignificant now may well be irrelevant in two months time or it may well be backed up by other observations.
Some of the small studies released by China as Italy was taking off, were not even mentioned in the media for a very long time and now there are similar findings on a bigger scale coming from Europe and America.

[RigaBalsam]

This is legit and is widely being reported on. I think this will but the brakes on schools opening any time soon. No one wants sick children on their conscience.

Agree they need more evidence

[LastTrainEast]

It's right to be cautious but those attacking the OP could have checked first and found it was genuine.

[ChipotleBlessing]

OP you used perfectly sensible standard methods for verifying that a twitter poster is who they said they were. And came to a sensible conclusion. Ignore the sneerers.

[DuLANGDuLANGDuLANG]

This sounds like what happened to my DD in 2018 (due to another virus, a common one). The abdominal pain was an enlarged spleen (and her liver had started to fail).

She was ventilated (5 days in PICU) and spent a whole year recovering. They had to purposefully switch off her immune system to stop it attacking her organs. She had 5 hospital admissions in 10 months (total of 23 nights).

www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-we-treat-index-page-group/haemophagocytic-lymphohistiocytosis-hlh

HLH is one of the cytokine storm syndromes. It’s possible that CV19 is causing the same thing (it’s pretty rare so most doctors won’t have seen it) or a slightly different, similar thing, unique to this new virus.

My daughter’s trigger was EBV (but most people get EBV and are absolutely fine). She’s on the shielding list and we keep getting increasingly shrill letters and phone calls, they are worried. CV will reactivate her HLH.

[maa1992]

I've just read this. Really worrying me :(

[chomalungma]

People who dismissed the OP should look at the HSJ

Especially as this is a parenting site

www.hsj.co.uk/acute-care/exclusive-national-alert-as-coronavirus-related-condition-may-be-emerging-in-children/7027496.article

[RigaBalsam]

So sorry that happened Dulang it must be a scary time for you.

[Truffleshuff]

Thank you for posting OP, it seems to be more widely reported now. I do agree though with a PP that there were probably more responsible ways than on twitter to communicate the info- but guessing they may have hit some snags though official channels

[Shitsgettingcrazy]

Whats a rise?

If they had one a week for the last six weeks, and the last time got 2. Its a rise.

Still doesn't change anything or make it ci concerning

[TartanTexan]

Yes, apologies OP, seeing legitimate via other sources backing up. Looks like some have a severe inflammatory response to this virus and different as per presenting in children when this is the case.

[pontypridd]

I've just seen this on the Guardian live feed and started a new thread about it. Sorry.

[CatteStreet]

As DuLang's dd shows (hope she gets through this OK, DuLang , this kind of thing can happen, rarely, with other viruses too. Or with bacterial infections - a few people who get E coli (nasty but brief bout of food poisoning for most) can go into very serious kidney failure.

It is important to be aware of this, and to know symptoms to watch out for. But this sort of condition is not something that is unique to Covid-19 (although obviously we don't know whether it's more likely to cause it than are other viruses). Awareness is a sensible response. Further fear and panic are not.

[owlstwooting]

The numbers of Children affected haven't been verified, but since the total numbers of verified cases in Children are low compared with the number of cases in adults, and how quickly cases can deteriorate, to me it is very concerning.

I apologise for the thread title, original poor source etc. I left school at 16. I'm just a worried Parent trying to make sense of this situation like everyone else.

The issue has been reported in the HSJ, the Paediatric Intensive Care Society, and The Guardian.

Hopefully we will be given information and not treated like Children.

[Shitsgettingcrazy]

Little is known so far about the issue, nor how widespread it has been, but the absolute number of children affected is thought to be very small, according to paediatrics sources. The syndrome has the characteristics of serious covid-19, but there have otherwise been relatively few cases of serious effects or deaths from coronavirus in children. Some of the children have tested positive for covid-19, and some appear to have had the virus in the past, but some have not.

The fact that many fewer children than adults have had serious illness with the virus or died remains the case.

This is what it says.

They have no idea, what the changes in numbers, or the issue or anything about the children.

[Veganella]

It’s true but as a PP said, it’s extremely small numbers at the moment