Never seen anything like this before : Summertime virus baffles docs, targets children Share Updated: 3:44 PM PDT Jul 9, 2021 By LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press Never seen anything like this before : Summertime virus baffles docs, targets children Share Updated: 3:44 PM PDT Jul 9, 2021
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Show Transcript HERE IN OMAHA CONCERNED. ROB: AS KETV NEWSWATCH 7’S KATHERINE GARCIA REPORTS, FAMILIES SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE EYE OUT FOR THE GNS.SI KATHERINE: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC KEPT MANY OF US AT HOME AND IF WE DID GO OUT, OUR MASKS CEROVED COUGHS AND SNEEZES. BUT DOCTORS SAY AS THE MASKS COME OFF, VIRUSES LIKE RSV ARE COMING OUT. THE WINTER MONTHS ARE TYPICALLY KNOWN AS RSV SEASON, WHEN THE COLD-LIKE ILLNESS TAKES OFF AROUND THE COUNTRY, BUT UNMC INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXRTPE DR. BRADFORD BECKEN SAYS CASES OF THE VIRUS AND OTHER ILLNESSES ARE CLIMBING THIS SUMMER. AS RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN LOOSENED, WE’RE STARTING TO SEE VIRUSEINS A M
It was last fall when Dr. Alanna Otto really started noticing the change.
At the children s hospital at the University of Michigan, the number of pediatric patients admitted for eating disorder complications soared from about 50, to more than 100, during COVID.
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Normally, the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan where she works gets one or two patients admitted a week for complications from eating disorders. But lately, those rates had been soaring.
“One of the things that we ve heard over and over again during the pandemic, is that our patients either began to make changes to what they were eating, or to the way that they were exercising, as a way to try to control their weight or control their body,” Otto said. “Because it felt like everything else was out of control.”
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer
The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms but can be serious for infants and the elderly. Cases dropped dramatically last year, with people staying home and social distancing, but began cropping up as pandemic restrictions eased. I ve never seen anything like this before, Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, medical director at Beacon Children s Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, said after treating two RSV-infected infants recently. Both needed oxygen treatment to help with breathing. I ve never seen cases in July, or close to July.
WASHINGTON (AP) The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms but can be serious for infants and the elderly. Cases dropped dramatically last year, with people staying home and social distancing, but began cropping up as pandemic restrictions eased. I ve never seen anything like this before, Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, medical director at Beacon Children s Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, said after treating two RSV-infected infants recently. Both needed oxygen treatment to help with breathing. I ve never seen cases in July, or close to July.
Cold weather virus in summer baffles doctors, worries parents
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Scanning electron micrograph of RSV. (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
NEW YORK - The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, is a common cause of cold-like symptoms but can be serious for infants and the elderly. Cases dropped dramatically last year, with people staying home and social distancing, but began cropping up as pandemic restrictions eased.