So if someone is having diarrhea or not even diarrhea, handwashing after you've had a bowel movement is extremely important because the transmission for this virus is not just from people sneezing or something in the air, but can also be from saliva and it can also be from the stool. The other mechanism that we've found besides hand washing and spread from somebody sneezing and coughing has also been from the stool.
So that's a key, regardless of what your underlying condition is. It is so important and so critical because, again, we've heard, and it is true, that if you can wash your hands successfully- and not just wash the palms, but really going in between fingers and the back of the hands and up to the wrist is really, really important. So in general, I think all of us need to practice the handwashing technique. Some of it is justified and some of it is not. So absolutely I think that if a child has an underlying condition, so for example, from a GI standpoint, if a child has liver disease or inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's disease, children who have celiac disease and other chronic conditions, the concern from the parents is definitely much heightened. But really not from a symptom standpoint, does not vary whether you are a young child or a young adult. It's not specific for children, but it's something that COVID-19 has seen. They lose their sense of smell, so even if you're in a room that's stinky, they don't really smell it. A number of people who have COVID-19 have said that they actually don't have that sense of smell. One of the other symptoms that probably hasn't been discussed as much- at least I haven't seen- is also this sense of smell. A typical viral sort of upper respiratory infections would be something that I would say should alert us to think about COVID-19 in a teenager. So you would look at the same in terms of fever, diarrhea, looking at runny nose. They're probably behaving more like the young adult symptoms. But really, nothing else that's as predominant from a GI standpoint.Īs I mentioned earlier, we really don't have as much experience about children and COVID-19, so I would start with the teens and adolescents. I mean, it can be if someone is stressed, someone has eaten something that didn't sit right with them, but there is concern that one needs to think about diarrhea as well as a symptom of COVID-19.įrom a GI standpoint, a lack of appetite, not feeling hungry, not eating as much, but abdominal pain is always a feature of any illness, but not specific to COVID-19. I think, again, diarrhea can be due to so many reasons. So the GI symptom that's most common with this population having COVID-19 is diarrhea more than anything else. So number of patients, whether they're children or adults, present with diarrhea rather than the traditional, as we talked about, with respiratory symptoms, having runny nose and breathing issues, and so on. From a gastrointestinal standpoint, from a GI standpoint as far as the symptoms, that probably have not been paid as much attention to as really diarrhea. Though there are more reports that children are obviously affected, as well.
#Covid symptoms in kids under 10 how to#
Hopefully today we'll be able to cover some aspects of how to take care of ourselves and our patients and our children through this era of COVID-19 and looking at the GI, gastrointestinal problems.Ĭhildren in COVID-19, thankfully at this time, for what we know are not as affected as adults.
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I am the section chief for pediatric gastroenterology.
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