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
Latest News

World Heart Day 2023 – Impact Statement
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.

Mrs Hinch urges EVERY parent to know Kawasaki Disease: the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the western world
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, […]

Societi Summer 2023 Newsletter!
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 […]

International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day 2023 – Impact Statement
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, […]
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Mrs Hinch urges EVERY parent to know Kawasaki Disease: the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the western world


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Kawasaki Support Group

Are you looking for support and someone to talk to after a diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease?
Our Family Resource Portal

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!
Latest Research for Clinicians
Kawasaki Disease: a prospective population survey in the UK and Ireland from 2013 to 2015
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.
Kawasaki disease: New info to enhance our index of suspicion
Every clinician needs a high index of suspicion. This paper contains new information to enhance it.
How to spot zebras – Kawasaki Disease
‘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?