🚨OH MY WORD. I WARNED FOUR YEARS AGO THAT REPEAT COVID INFECTIONS IN KIDS MIGHT LEAD TO EXACTLY THIS CONDITION.
I said that with Covid affecting blood vessels, immune signalling, inflammation, gut, nutrient absorption, nutrient handling, and calcium recycling processes, we should expect a wave of molar incisor hypomineralisation.
I was very surprised that the problem hadn't made it into the media before now - but I guess the children this is happening to now are the children who were born in 2020. The ones who were infected every year since.
So frustrating that twitter's search engine is completely useless. I've got a whole thread on this somewhere explaining the entire mechanism.
This is an MIH adjacent condition.
It's one that I expected to be a significant problem *earlier* than MIH.
It's so important to know that Covid infection can disturb a child's ability to regulate inflammation, oxygen supply, calcium/phosphate balance, vitamin D pathways and tissue development.
The article discusses childhood illness, fever, vitamin D, difficult births, oxygen stress, environmental pollutants and cells involved in tooth enamel being unusually sensitive to stress.
Fine.
Now remind me what major new childhood infection causes fever, inflammation, hypoxia in some cases, vascular dysfunction and immune disruption?
And what happened in 2020... and hasn't stopped?
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