LOS ANGELES - Three pediatric patients at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles who tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies were showing symptoms of a rare autoimmune response doctors are calling Pediatric Inflammatory Multi-System Syndrome or PIMS which is similar to the autoimmune condition known as Kawasaki Disease. “You could get a rash.
Your mucous membranes are affected so that means you have red lips, your eyes could be red and there’s also lymph nodes that could be enlarged,” said, Northridge-based Pediatrician, Dr.
Rishma Chand. She hasn’t treated any COVID-19 patients with PIMS but tells parents to keep an eye out for potential symptoms. “If your child might have decreased energy they might have blue lips or blue skin and obviously