Children with Covid may develop neurological symptoms

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The study by Eveline Hospital, London has found that children can develop neurological symptoms. The study findings have just been reported in the Telegragh. This is obviously concerning. Does anyone have any detailed relevant information?

Just pasting from The Telegraph;

“ Dr Ming Lim, a consultant paediatric neurologist at Evelina London Children's Hospital, said: "This group of children, now in excess of 150 cases seen in London and up to 300 in the UK, initially present with a high fever, rash, conjunctivitis and abdominal pain, progress to have multi-organ failure often requiring prolonged high-level intensive care support.

"Furthermore, the long-term multisystem, particularly cardiac outcomes of PIMS-TS, including the potential for future relapse, and how these impact on health and neurological, psychological and cognitive outcome, are also unknown."

The study they are referring to is a study of 50 infected children who were treated at Great Ormond Street;

"27 had features consistent with COVID-19 pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome. (A total of 4 patients (14.8%) with multisystem inflammatory syndrome had neurological involvement."

The 4 children have survived - 2 are fully recovered, 2 are still inpatients but improving.

PIMS-TS is "a systemic inflammatory response requiring intensive care".

So - PIMS-TS seems to be a rare but serious complication. The neurological complications would seem to be very rare indeed. Of course no-one really knows the long term implications of Covid at the moment.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2767979?resultClick=1

Im surprised there is a case from 1st march. That is 7d after skiiers would have returned. I guess it could be a child who went. But also they seemed to think it took weeks for kids to get very sick up to 6w? This wpuld be about 11d after getting sick. Presuming skiing arriving 17th ill from 21st.
Or it is a child who caught before we had cases...

Igore specific dates the calendar flicked to jan.
But would be imteresting to see how long on average the pims takes to apprear

This is the "Kawasaki-like syndrome" isnt it? Which is really rare. And the neurological response is rare within those cases. So it's very unlikely, it's not like every other kid with mild covid will have neurological damage.

Also can't this happen with any disease? Children can have severe neurological complications of chicken pox too, but most people dont even vaccinate for chicken pox.

I think the PMIS is slightly different to the Kawasaki like disease - though both are rare.

"Increasing reports of children developing systemic inflammatory response requiring intensive care (labeled pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-192) and a further group of children with a far less severe, Kawasaki-like disease, who respond to a variety of immunomodulatory treatments,3 suggest that despite the typically mild acute infection, children may be at high risk of a secondary inflammatory syndrome."