Typical strawberry tongue of a child with Kawasaki disease

Recently, India’s B.P. Poddar Hospital and Research Center reported a case of Kawasaki Disease, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. An eight-year-old girl went to the hospital for [rash with fever for one week]. Physical examination showed diffuse macula, crack on lips and strawberry tongue. Her body temperature was 39 ℃. Conjunctival congestion in both eyes, swelling of some cervical lymph nodes, redness of palms and metatarsus, mild eczema in both hands and desquamation of palms were found. Heart examination showed no abnormality. Laboratory examination revealed leukocytosis of 13 000/cubic millimeter (normal range is 3 500 ~ 10 500/cubic millimeter); The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was high (80 mm/h) (normal range was 0 ~ 29 mm/h). There were no Read More …

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Another Reason for Cautious Use of Antibiotics: For Children’s Joint Health

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is the most common persistent arthritis in children. The initial symptoms are not specific, including lethargy, tiredness and poor appetite (which may be caused by drugs). Especially in young children, the biggest manifestation may be limping, and children may have severe influenza-like manifestations. The disease often occurs in knee joint, ankle joint, wrist joint and facet joint of hands and feet, and its cause is still unknown as its name [idiopathic]. Antibiotics Increase Risk of Idiopathic Arthritis in Children Studies have confirmed that the application of antibiotics in children can significantly increase the risk of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a dose-dependent manner, i.e. The risk increases with the increase of administration times. With more knowledge of microbiology, Read More …