APRIL 20, 2021

Study Finds Some Children With COVID-19 Experience Headaches, Neurologic Symptoms

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan
Originally published by our sister publication, Pain Medicine News

New research found that among children with COVID-19 who develop multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), about half had neurologic symptoms, including headache.

The researchers, who presented their study as an emerging science abstract at the 2021 virtual annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, noted that the children had no record of neurologic symptoms before COVID-19