Some parents are considering having gatherings that allow their children to intentionally have contact with kids infected with COVID-19 to purposely build immunity in the future.

But experts warn that these "COVID mixers" are a bad idea. They point out that the disease can cause serious complications in kids, such as multisystem inflammatory syndrome that damages organs of the body and can be deadly.

According to Newsweek Health, parents who want their children to develop antibodies for the disease by deliberate infection are not only risking their health but are also misguided in their goal.

"If your child gets infected, there's no guarantee that the child is protected against future infection," Newsweek reports Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, an infectious disease expert at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, as saying. "So, on just about every level, logic behind these COVID mixers falls apart terribly."

Marie Pizzorno, associate professor of biology at Bucknell University, said that "while very few children have been hospitalized or died of COVID-19, we have no way of determining which children will have a bad outcome after being infected."

According to the local NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, Kahn added that we don't know the long-term consequences of infection and said that the rare cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome seen in some children may damage the heart and other critical organs.

"If you're considering this, please pause and think about the implications of doing this. You're going to put your child at risk, you're going to put people in your home at risk, and potentially propagate the infection in the community," he said. "I can't emphasize this enough, don't do it."