This week there are two children aged between zero and four admitted to hospitals in the Balearic Islands for Covid-19. Currently, one is hospitalised in Can Misses and the other in Son Espases.
A paediatrician at Son Espases, Dr. JoaquÃn Dueñas, explained that most of the children who have been admitted due to the pandemic were admitted as a precaution, as they had pre-existing conditions that could have aggravated their situation.
“A slight fever and cough were their main symptoms, most of those admitted had mild symptoms“, the paediatrician stressed.
The specialist pointed out that contracting the viral disease at this early age is quite common, but that the children who were later admitted to hospital were admitted as precaution and, in most cases, because they had associated health problems.
“During the almost two years of pandemic we have had about thirty children admitted, most of them with mild symptoms and because they were cancer patients or had immunosuppression problems, a weakening of their immune system”, explained the doctor.
Of these thirty admissions, he continued, twelve ended up in the paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the referring hospital, the only one in this autonomous community’s public health system.
Their admission to the intensive care unit was because most of them developed a “coronavirus-associated multisystemic inflammatory syndrome”. However, the paediatrician explained that most of those who had to be admitted to the ICU spent a maximum of between four and seven days there and that during their stay they did not require assisted ventilation. “Some did require ventilation, but not invasive,” the doctor said.
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