Baltimore (WJZ) -Morgan Dietz is known for his courageous and social personality, but in September, the eight-year-old didn’t feel like himself.
“I just felt terrible and I just felt blah,” she recalled.
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She got COVID-19 over the summer.
She recovered and thought she was clean, until she started feeling sick again.
She found out she had MIS-C or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children.
“It was affecting his stomach,” said Morgan’s mom, Lauren Dietz. “He had pain all over his body. His eyes were covered in blood. Even as we sat in the ER with her, the rash was spreading to her stomach, her legs.”
This is a serious medical condition that can cause inflammation in major organs such as the lungs, kidneys, and brain.
In some cases MIS-C can shut down organs and cause death.
Morgan was treated at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
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Her mother said it was touch-and-go at times.
“They push the code button and a lot of people come running into the room trying to work on it. It was so incredibly scary and it happened twice,” said Lauren Dietz.
MIS-C is a new condition that began to affect children during the pandemic.
According to the CDC, there have been 5,000 cases and about 40 deaths since May last year.
Julia Schalen said, “We are not used to children getting sick from a new phenomenon about which we do not have the level of expertise and knowledge to know what is the best or correct treatment at this point, and So it’s difficult.” A pediatrician at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Morgan’s doctor says that right now the only way to prevent MIS-C is for anyone who can get the vaccine to get it, because children like Morgan are yet to be vaccinated.
Lauren Dietz said, “Everyone wants to go back to their normal lives.” “We want as much as the next family, and the only way to do that is to protect each other by getting the vaccine.”
Morgan will continue to be monitored to ensure that MIS-C does not return.
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She will be vaccinated as soon as she is eligible.
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