Aggravation of the condition of a one-year-old and two-month-old baby who was infected in Corona and hospitalized on Saturday in a moderate-severe condition. Doctors at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed were forced to connect it to a respirator during the night. Its condition is now defined as critical but stable.
Dr. Hillel Frankenthal, a senior physician in the pediatric intensive care unit at the medical center, said: “The baby was hospitalized Friday night with difficulty breathing. We recognized that she was suffering from a crop. It is a type of respiratory disease that is very common in children and infants, one of the symptoms of which is a barking and loud cough. It causes a type of edema in the area of the vocal cords and trachea. On Sunday, her condition improved greatly and we thought of releasing her the next day, but at night her condition worsened significantly and we had to feminize her. ”
He said, “Krupp has already been described in children with corona, but so far I have not found in the literature documentation of such severe cases that have reached the state of the soul. I read about a case of a nine-year-old boy from the United States who almost needed respiration, For women, a child who suffers from a crop in combination with Corona. “
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Dr. Frankenthal adds that the medical world is collecting data to examine how the new mutations have altered the corona we knew and if it harms children more – and if so then in what form. We are currently awaiting more tests I sent to see if the toddler’s crop was caused by a coronary or other non-viral infection. The initial results we received indicate that her crop was caused by corona, “explains Dr. Frankenthal.
“There have been cases described, some relatively mild, some more severe, but this is a baby without significant background illnesses who nevertheless became seriously and significantly ill – and this raises questions about whether it is one of the mutations and whether the corona changes the populations it affects.”