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Article: New treatment lessens threat of Kawasaki Syndrome. (inflammatory disease in children)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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Toddlers with fevers? Only about as common as sand on the beach. But for toddlers with Kawasald syndrome, fever is just one of the early signs of a very serious illness.
Kawasaki disease, or Kawasaki syndrome, is an infectious inflammatory disease that affects mainly infants and young children. At first, the symptoms--fever, rash, watery eyes, swollen lymph nodes--look like those seen with many of the bugs kids pick up all the time.
But this is no simple bug. It affects many systems in youngsters' bodies, but damage to the heart and surrounding tissue is of the greatest concern. Left untreated, Kawasaki syndrome can damage the coronary arteries that feed ...