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Kawasaki disease is 1 of the starring causes of heart failure for children nether the property of five, and cases person risen dramatically implicit the past 5 years.
Latest figures from the NHS amusement the fig of children being treated for the illness successful England and Wales has doubled, with 706 needing treatment.
The mean implicit the erstwhile 5 years was 336 needing treatment.
What is Kawasaki disease?
Also known arsenic mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, the information tin origin immoderate of the humor vessels astir the bosom to beryllium enlarged and, if not treated successful time, tin beryllium fatal.
The emergence successful the fig of cases of the illness has prompted a plea for much plasma donations to assistance young radical retrieve from it.
Children are treated with immunoglobulin – a medicine made from donated plasma.
Without treatment, astir 1 successful 4 children with Kawasaki illness tin make bosom complications, which tin beryllium fatal successful astir 2 to 3 per cent of cases, according to the NHS.
Who tin get it?
It chiefly affects children nether the property of 5.
Around 8 successful each 100,000 children make Kawasaki illness successful the UK each twelvemonth and studies person shown it to beryllium 1.5 times much communal successful boys than girls.
How to spot Kawasaki illness symptoms
A kid with Kawasaki illness is apt to person a precocious somesthesia that lasts for 5 days oregon longer, and perchance 1 oregon much of the pursuing symptoms:
- a rash
- swollen glands successful the neck
- dry, reddish cracked lips
- a swollen, bumpy, reddish lingua (“strawberry tongue”)
- red wrong the rima and astatine the backmost of the throat
- swollen and reddish hands and feet
- red eyes
A communal aboriginal grounds of the illness is simply a reddish and swollen lingua with reddish spots, referred to arsenic ‘strawberry tongue’
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After a fewer weeks, and with the close treatment, the symptoms go little severe, but it tin instrumentality longer to dainty successful immoderate children.
What to bash if you deliberation your kid has it
If your kid has a persistent precocious somesthesia and 1 oregon much symptoms of Kawasaki disease, spot a GP urgently, oregon telephone 111 if you tin not talk to a GP.
If your babe is little than a twelvemonth old, you are advised to spot a GP oregon telephone 111 consecutive away.
The symptoms of Kawasaki illness tin beryllium akin to those of different conditions that origin a fever successful children.
Kawasaki illness tin not beryllium prevented but children tin marque a afloat betterment wrong 6 to 8 weeks if it is diagnosed and treated promptly.
It is not wide precisely what causes Kawasaki disease, but researchers believed the spike successful cases could beryllium owed to children mixing again aft the Covid-19 pandemic.
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