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).
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We are so proud to have been able to work with phenomenal supporters and magnificent partners together on our World Heart Day campaign. Read our Impact Statement to find out what we all got up to, to raise awareness of Kawasaki Disease and protect tiny hearts! Click here.
This World Heart Day, 29 September 2023, Societi Foundation, the UK Foundation for Kawasaki Disease, is campaigning to get this disease known. Throughout the UK and Europe, a growing number of children’s lives each year are being devastated by Kawasaki Disease – the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the western world, […]
As always, there’s so much to report on this summer, and never enough room to fit it all in! We’ve been incredibly busy here at Societi HQ – and many of you have been just as busy, with so much fundraising and awareness raising happening. Click here to dive into our summer newsletter and find […]
We’re very pleased to present our awareness day 2023 impact statement. Thanks to the exceptional efforts of our supporters and our partners, this has been our most successful awareness day campaign to date. We worked throughout January, asking everyone to ‘THINK Kawasaki Disease’ as we endeavour to get this sinister disease known. By working together, […]
Are you looking for support and someone to talk to after a diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease?
If you’ve been affected by Kawasaki Disease, you’ll find lots of additional information on these pages. There’s answers to questions you might have, an overview of what you might expect, an interview with one of our Kawasaki Disease experts, Professor Tulloh – hear from other families about their experiences and much more!
Kawasaki Disease is an increasingly common vasculitis with risk of coronary artery aneurysms. The last UK survey was in 1990. Current epidemiology, treatment patterns and complication rates are unknown. The aim of this study, undertaken across the UK and Ireland, was to address this knowledge gap.
Every clinician needs a high index of suspicion. This paper contains new information to enhance it.
‘When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras’ – the old adage is well-known to GPs but what should you do when faced with a zebra, not a horse?
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