A study of clinical profile and outcome of COVID-19 in children

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 has become a major public health crisis around the world. This study aimed at identifying the different clinical presentations of children who were tested positive for SARS-COV-2.Methods: Descriptive and prospective study of the children who were seen over the fever clinic and were admitted to the Sapthagiri institute of medical science and research centre over a period of 4 months from November 2021 to February 2022.Results: Among the 251 children admitted to the hospital majority of them were males 52.5% and the age group of 1-5 years were highest affected 46.2%. The most common symptoms noted were fever 60.5%, followed by pain abdomen 45.8%, vomiting 43.8%, running nose 39%, cough 38%, diarrhoea 30.6%, decreased appetite 26.7% and the least common symptom was skin rash 0.3%. Children with comorbidites had higher risk of ICU admission. No deaths were noted during the study period.Conclusions: The study concludes that males and children of age group 1-5 years were more affected. Children with co morbidities were more severely affected. children who were positive presented with other system involvement like gastrointestinal system. Household contact were the make cause of infection among children.

Clinical Profile and Outcome of Neonates and Children Diagnosed with COVID-19 in Tertiary Level Teaching hospital in Eastern Nepal

“…18 Similarly, Nagaraj MV et al also reported majority of children were male (52.5%). 19 Initially it was thought that the disease is acute respiratory illness and affects the respiratory system mainly but it affects other systems also. In our study, the most commonly involved systems were respiratory (42, 66.7%) followed by gastrointestinal (28, 44.5%) and neuromuscular (13, 20.6%).…”

“…14 In the recent literatures, the severe disease ranges from 7% to 65%. 19,23,24 Length of hospital stay (LOS) of covid-…”

“…Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID- 19) is an acute respiratory infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease is originated from Wuhan, China in January 2020 and spread all over the world so rapidly that the world health organization (WHO) has declared global health emergency and pandemic on 30 January 2020.…”