This Morning's Dr Ranj has explained the symptoms to look out for in children with the new mysterious coronavirus-related illness.
Doctors issued an urgent alert on Monday regarding the new inflammation bug, which is thought to have affected around a dozen children in the UK so far.
The illness, which is yet to be officially named, may be related to COVID-19 and is said to affect children.
Symptoms of the condition include abdominal pain and swelling of the heart.
It has been said to be similar to Kawasaki Disease or toxic shock.
Even though most of the children with the illness have had COVID-19, some have not.
Appearing on today's instalment of the ITV daytime show, Dr Ranj spoke to hosts Phil and Holly about the illness, and the kind of symptoms to look out for.
It comes as doctors have been advised to look out for the signs and parents have been urged to be vigilant.
While on video-cam, Dr Ranj insisted that at the moment, not enough is known about the illness to confirm whether or not it is linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
"A number of children who have been admitted to hospital, some of which have ended in intensive care with a certain pattern of illlness which is a bit worrying." He said.
"Some of them have tested positive for coronavirus and some of them haven't.
"This alert went out to health care professionals to warn them to be extra vigilant.
"What we've seen is these children have hyper inflammatory syndrome, which is lots of inflammation around the body. some of their symptoms are similar to a condition called Kawasaki disease."
In a video posted to his Instagram page prior to his segment on the show, the healthcare specialist explained the situation to parents.
He said: "Basically what has happened, is a medical alert when out to health care professionals across the country over the weekend just advising them to be extra vigilant...
"Because we've seen what looks like a pattern of illness in amongst a small number of children who have been admitted to hospital, some of which are in intensive care.
"Some of them have tested positive for coronavirus and some of them haven't.
"We are not sure whether this pattern of illness that we are seeing could be related to coronavirus at all."
He added: What we are seeing is widespread symptoms of inflammation and some of the things are similar to another condition that we know does affect children called Kawasaki disease.
"However, what we don't know is whether these are the same thing or whether they're caused b the same thing or whether this is actually caused by coronavirus at all or whether we're dealing with something entirely different...
"We advising everyone to be extra careful.
"For parents and carers at home, the advice has not changed. The vast majority of children who get coronavirus will only get a mild illness and be absolutely fine."
