A North Carolina teenager found it difficult to walk after contracting a disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a report.
Cooper Hudson, 15, from Stanly County was healthy and active until about two weeks ago, when he started experiencing strange symptoms, reported the WSOC news station.
“When he got up, he was so dizzy that he could barely walk and it was horrible,” his mother, Melanie Hudson, told the outlet.
When his health deteriorated, he was admitted to Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, where he tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies.
Doctors diagnosed him with a virus-related illness known as Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children or MIS-C.
The disease attacks children’s organs about two weeks after they contracted the virus.
“I mean, we knew it was serious, but we didn’t know how serious it was in those early days,” Cooper’s father, Matt Hudson, told the newspaper.
In Cooper’s case, the syndrome affected his liver and heart.
“His blood pressure was dropping rapidly and that was the signal that told them that he needed to go to the ICU,” said his father.
With the help of steroids, his health improved and he was discharged from the hospital.
But the teenager said he was still on the road to recovery.
“I’m still tired, but it will take time,” Cooper told the outlet.