Kawasaki Disease Symptoms
Kawasaki Disease is increasingly common with c. 1,000 hospital admissions each year in the UK. Symptoms include a characteristic and distinctively persistent high fever for five days or more, plus two or more of the following symptoms – rash, bloodshot eyes, “strawberry” tongue, cracked, dry lips, redness of the fingers and toes, swollen glands (often just on one side).
If a child has a persistent fever together with two or more of these symptoms, THINK Kawasaki Disease. Early treatment is critical to reduce the risk of lifelong heart disease.
Persistent fever
Swollen fingers/toes
Cracked lips / Strawberry tongue
Bloodshot eyes
Rash
Swollen glands
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Kawasaki Disease: a prospective population survey in the UK and Ireland from 2013 to 2015
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