Rare COVID-19 complication hospitalizes Utah boy

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KSTU) — A Utah household says a uncommon life-threatening complication of COVID-19 enactment their 6-year-old successful the intensive attraction unit.

Logan Trombley spent 8 days astatine Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital with multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) aft being exposed to COVID-19.

“It was really benignant of weird due to the fact that helium didn’t person immoderate symptoms,” Lona Trombley said.

Yet, 4 weeks later, the microorganism caused his assemblage to fundamentally onslaught itself. Logan suffered from a fever, vomiting, fatigue and a rash.

“You could archer that helium was going downward and it wasn’t getting immoderate better,” said Eric Trombley.
Logan was air-lifted from St. George to Salt Lake City. ICU doctors stabilized the first-grader, but doctors told his parents to brace themselves.

“She had warned maine up of time: ‘It’s going to look similar we are getting better, but determination is going to beryllium hiccups. That’s the mode this microorganism works,'" Lona said. "We went to the pediatric portion and helium had a relapse, truthful we had to up his medicine and his steroids."

"The bulk of children we are seeing this successful were antecedently healthy,” said Dr. Erin Treemarcki, a pediatric rheumatologist astatine Primary Children’s Hospital and University of Utah Health.

Logan has a textbook lawsuit of MIS-C which attacked his heart, kidneys and liver.

Treemarcki said the infirmary has treated 129 children with MIS-C since the opening of the pandemic.

“What we recognize is erstwhile you’re exposed to COVID-19, immoderate children’s immune systems go activated from that vulnerability to COVID-19, and past weeks later, they make this inflammatory syndrome,” said Dr. Treemarcki.

The champion prevention, Dr. Tremarcki advises, is simply a COVID-19 vaccine, which was precocious approved for young children.

“It was not fun,” said Logan.

“Just due to the fact that you get past the COVID scare and you guys travel retired healthy, it doesn’t mean that you’re successful the clear. There are side-effects,” Lona said.

Logan’s fatigue remains changeless and helium tin lone spell to schoolhouse for fractional of a day. His parents expect a cardiologist volition request to show his bosom for the remainder of his life.

This communicative was primitively reported by Hailey Higgins connected fox13now.com.