Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Everyone can be infected with Covid-19, including children. Although there are not as many confirmed cases as adults, children still have a great potential for contracting this virus.
Symptoms range from mild to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus that causes Covid-19.
But parents don’t need to panic, detection of children affected by Covid-19 can still be done, so that early anticipatory steps can be taken.
Quoted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) United States (US), the following potential symptoms of Covid-19 in children:
- Headache
- Muscle or body pain
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea or vomiting
- Fatigue
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Nasal congestion or runny nose
- Loss of sense of smell
- Sore throat
- Diarrhea
- Stomach ache
The most common symptoms of Covid-19 experienced by infected children are fever and cough. However, children and adolescents can experience any, all, or none of these symptoms.
In addition, parents also need to pay attention to other things. Namely conditions in which the increased risk of children experiencing Covid-19 symptoms is more severe than children without any medical conditions, namely:
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Genetic, neurological, or metabolic conditions
- Asthma or chronic lung disease
- Sickle cell disease
- Heart disease from birth
- Children with various chronic conditions that affect many parts of the body
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