Parents or caregivers who have concerns about their child’s health, including concerns about COVID-19 or MIS-C, should call a pediatrician or other healthcare provider immediately. Most children with MIS-C are seen by specialists such as infectious diseases and cardiologist (heart) doctors. Some will need to be treated in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Most children who become ill with MIS-C will need to be treated in the hospital.
These tests might include:īecause MIS-C symptoms are similar to many other diseases your doctor may look for other sources of your child’s illness such as:ĭoctors may provide supportive care for symptoms (medicine, or fluids, or both, to make your child feel better) and may use various medicines to treat inflammation (e.g., steroids, or Intravenous Immunoglobulin, or both). and international scientists healthcare providers and other partners to monitor and learn more about MIS-C.ĭoctors may do certain tests to look for inflammation or other signs of disease. These are among the many questions CDC is working to understand.ĬDC is working with state, local, and territorial health departments U.S. We don’t know if particular variants of SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to cause MIS-C, or if certain children are more likely to get MIS-C. MIS-C can be serious, even deadly, but most children who are diagnosed with this condition get better with medical care.ĬDC is still learning the underlying reasons why some children get MIS-C after SARS-CoV-2 infection and others do not. MIS-C causes different internal and external body parts to become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal tract. The child’s SARS-CoV-2 infection may be very mild or have no symptoms at all and may go unrecognized. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare condition associated with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), that usually occurs 2-6 weeks after a child is infected with SARS-CoV-2.
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