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Cureus
. 2021 Jan 3;13(1):e12444.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.12444.
COVID-19 Infection Presenting With Cheilitis and Fever in a Toddler
La Nyka A Christian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jaya Wadhawan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sally Abdelmalek[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Louisdon Pierre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Adebayo Adeyinka[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly found infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first observed in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. An otherwise healthy 13-month-old male presented with persistent fever and cheilitis as his initial findings of COVID-19 in April 2020 prior to the discovery and classification of the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Clinical symptoms of COVID-19 are still evolving in the pediatric population, ranging from being asymptomatic to varied symptoms, such as fever, abdominal pain, and myocarditis. Other manifestations such as conjunctivitis and cheilitis can offer clues. We speculate that cheilitis can be a sign of the hyperinflammatory state, as seen in MIS-C.
Keywords: cheilitis; covid 19; high fever; multi-system inflammatory disease in children (mis-c); pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome; sars cov-2.
. 2021 Jan 3;13(1):e12444.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.12444.
COVID-19 Infection Presenting With Cheilitis and Fever in a Toddler
La Nyka A Christian[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jaya Wadhawan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sally Abdelmalek[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Louisdon Pierre[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Adebayo Adeyinka[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33409114
- PMCID: PMC7780584
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.12444
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a newly found infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first observed in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. An otherwise healthy 13-month-old male presented with persistent fever and cheilitis as his initial findings of COVID-19 in April 2020 prior to the discovery and classification of the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Clinical symptoms of COVID-19 are still evolving in the pediatric population, ranging from being asymptomatic to varied symptoms, such as fever, abdominal pain, and myocarditis. Other manifestations such as conjunctivitis and cheilitis can offer clues. We speculate that cheilitis can be a sign of the hyperinflammatory state, as seen in MIS-C.
Keywords: cheilitis; covid 19; high fever; multi-system inflammatory disease in children (mis-c); pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome; sars cov-2.