Since the coronavirus appeared in our lives, children have been a control group and important study. The statistical data had had them as the asymptomatic group most important and transmitter. However, recent studies are showing that this is not exactly the case. We want to talk to you about these news today in this article.
Let's start with a recent study published in Frontiers in Pediatrics that has focused on the symptoms that children manifest before COVID-19. One of these symptom, typical of minors are the diarrhea and fever, which has led scientists to think that if there is the possibility of contracting the disease through the digestive tract, and not only through the respiratory tract.
Do children get coronavirus through the stomach?
As we have advanced, the study of a group of French scientists suggests that the contagion of COVID-19, it is not only through the respiratory tract. But there is also the possibility of contracting the disease through digestive tract. This is because the intestines have the same type of receptor cells as in the lungs.
This should not be another cause for alarm, but rather prevention. Most children are mildly affected by coronavirus. The few serious cases that have occurred are because they already had underlying health problems.
The positive thing about this study is that since children do not have respiratory symptoms, initially, these gastro-intestinal symptoms can be detected, which later lead to pneumonia caused by COVID-19.
Can children stop the spread of coronavirus?
All mothers are alarmed or concerned about the situation of children when go back to school. For our peace of mind madreshoy We want to echo several scientific studies that reduce the risk of coronavirus contagion in schools, and even take students children as an important factor in curbing the infection.
The German investigation of the Dresden University Hospital affirms that there has been no evidence that schoolchildren play an important role in the spread of the coronavirus. Already in April of this year the Pasteur Institute of France reflected that they were parents, not children, the main origin of coronavirus infection.
Both studies maintain that contrary to what children have been saying are not a major transmission factor. On the contrary, they are the major generators of antibodies against COVID-19. These studies are supported by data collected in France and Germany during the months of the pandemic. Be that as it may, the truth is that recent studies are teaching us more about this disease. All reports conclude that social distancing and the use of masks they are more effective measures in the treatment of the contagion by coronavirus than the closure of schools.
Is it safe for children to go back to school?
With the necessary precautions, children yes they should go back to school in autumn. They are not leading the pandemic, are less likely to become infected, and appear to be less infectious. This is the conclusion of the study of two doctors from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
We give you more information about different studies that are being done. Analysis of the families of 39 Swiss children with coronavirus concludes that in only three families was the child the suspected index case. A study conducted on hospitalized Chinese children who contracted Covid-19 outside of Wuhan province, there is only one possible child-to-child transmission
Una French research shows that a child with Covid-19 who came into contact with more than 80 classmates in three schools would not have infected any other children. In New South Wales, 9 infected students and 9 employees in 15 schools exposed 735 students and 128 employees to Covid-19. The result was only 2 secondary infections, and one of them from child to child.