Tag: Kawasaki disease

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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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It turns out that you can see so many ways of health from your tongue.

The tongue is probably the most flexible muscle in a person. It can taste, eat, speak, pronounce… Sometimes it can also communicate emotionally (as if something is wrong). The presence of the tongue is usually very weak, but when it has a little ulcer, we can realize the irresistible pain-it turns out that we all use the tongue so frequently. What is a healthy tongue like? Healthy people’s tongues are pink and covered with a light white coating. If you look closely at the surface of the tongue, you will find some densely covered small nodules, which are called [tongue papillae]. Among them, those with taste function are what we often call [taste buds]. Many reasons can cause tongue discomfort Read More …

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The child has a fever and red eyes. Do you know it may be this disease?

Just opened his eyes this morning, Dr. Clove habitually turned on his cell phone to watch the news. During this period, I saw a parent telling the story of the baby’s Kawasaki disease. The story is very short and simple, and finally the baby was discharged smoothly. However, during this period, Dr. Clove also felt parents’ worries about their babies and their fears about Kawasaki disease. Therefore, I would like to share some information about Kawasaki disease with you at noon today, hoping to help more parents understand the disease and better deal with it. Is what Kawasaki disease? The first time I heard the name of the disease, I might think it is a rare disease in what. In Read More …

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Antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs are most commonly used in the treatment of infantile rash and Kawasaki disease.

It is difficult to predict children’s acute rash, and nursing fever is the key. Infant rash is a common disease in children. Most babies, Before the age of 1, The first fever was caused by this disease. In fact, this is also a viral infection. The reason why children’s rash is discussed after fever is that, Is because it usually manifests the symptom is high fever. This kind of disease even if you take the baby to the hospital, many times the doctor also can’t clearly give the diagnosis, can only make the diagnosis after the disease. Such as the baby’s hot relief rash, is burned for 3 ~ 4 days, the rash came out, the doctor according to these Read More …

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Is Lanjunjing a vaccine? Is it effective?

At the beginning of 2015, several media began to pay attention to a drug called [Lantigen B]. It is said that many children have used the drug as a second type of vaccine (i.e. A vaccine at their own expense), and many vaccination sites have also recommended it to parents as a vaccine. However, on April 10, Yu Jingjin, director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the State Health and Planning Commission, made it clear at the press conference that [Lanjunjing] is not a vaccine, but a [therapeutic biological product] approved by the State Food and Drug Administration and cannot be used as a vaccine. Later, a well-known financial weekly published an article called “Lanjunjing Disturbance”, which was Read More …