A 6-year-old child becomes seriously ill after 1 day of post-Covid-19 myocarditis

According to information from Hung Vuong General Hospital (Phu Tho), in recent days, the hospital has received many cases of children, from newborns to over 10 years old, coming to the hospital for examination due to Covid-19 infection or after receiving treatment. negative.

Most children show mild symptoms such as fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, low fever, chest pain… But when doing tests, the doctor discovered that the patient’s condition was acute myocarditis – a disease with a very high mortality rate.

There are cases where the child is detected very early and immediately transferred to the hospital, but on the way there are complicated developments. Accordingly, children with cardiac arrest, respiratory failure must press the heart, intubate the balloon right on the ambulance.

Emergency for a pediatric patient at Hung Vuong General Hospital

The most typical case is the case of a 6-year-old child (in Yen Son, Tuyen Quang) who was negative for Covid-19. On March 21, the child was taken for a post-Covid examination at Hung Vuong General Hospital. The baby came to the hospital with chest tightness, mild fatigue, all eating, drinking and vital signs were completely normal.

When the test found that the Troponin index increased abnormally, the doctors continued to do an electrocardiogram and echocardiogram to evaluate the function and measure the EF index. As a result, the child was identified as having acute myocarditis. After announcing the results, the hospital asked the family to send the baby to the National Children’s Hospital as soon as possible, the family was quite surprised because at that time, the baby was playing and playing. health almost normal.

However, just one day later, at the National Children’s Hospital, the baby became seriously ill, and is now in critical condition, currently having to run EMO at the ICU unit, with a severe prognosis.

Doctors recommend that people should not be too alarmed and go to the post-Covid-19 check-up, which is wasteful, expensive and also increases the possibility of infection or re-infection.

However, when there are any abnormal symptoms related to health, for example, prolonged fatigue, chest pain, abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea, low fever, difficulty breathing, rapid pulse, fever…, people People should go to the doctor early for advice, especially with children and the elderly.

Ngoc Trang