Neurological symptoms common in kids and teens with acute COVID-19 and MIS-C
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24 March 2021Neurological symptoms common in kids and teens with acute COVID-19 and MIS-C
In the largest study of its kind, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital found neurological involvement in 22 percent of children and adolescents hospitalized with acute COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). These symptoms included fatigue, headache, confusion, difficulty walking or crawling, or loss of taste and smell. However, 1 in 8 children with neurological involvement developed life-threatening conditions including stroke, encephalitis, and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
