As of Thursday, May 7, NBC News has reported that at least85 kids across the U.S.have experienced pediatric multi-symptom inflammatory syndrome, which may be linked to the coronavirus.Symptomsof this condition are similar to those ofKawasaki disease. While more research is being done to unders...
What are the symptoms of coronavirus? What can you expect with COVID variants? Fever, fatigue and dry cough; nasal congestion, runny nose and sore throat; diarrhea; and shortness of breath are signs of infection.
Tomisaku Kawasaki in 1967. KD is a serious childhood vasculitis that affects midsize arteries, especially the coronary arteries. Although the disease occurs worldwide, Asians have the highest risk of contracting it. Males are affected more than females, with a ...
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dubbed Multisystem Inflammatory Illness in Children, or MIS-C, presents some of the classic signs of a well-known disorder discovered more than half a century ago in Japan. The symptoms of MIS-C (sometimes referred to as PMIS) are so similar to Kawasaki Disease that doctors are deb...
Dry eye is a chronic ocular surface disease caused by tear film instability or imbalances in the ocular surface microenvironment and resulted in a range of discomfort symptoms and visual problems. While the exact causes and mechanisms are not fully understood, leading to the situation can only be...
A strawberry-red tongue could be an early sign ofKawasaki disease, a rare, serious illness that inflames blood vessels all over the body, most often in children. It’s also a symptom of scarlet fever. If your red tongue is also smooth and you have pain in your mouth, it might be a...
Strawberry tongue is characterized by a bright red discoloration of the tongue. Another cause of strawberry tongue in children is Kawasaki syndrome, also known as mucocutaneouslymphnode syndrome. It causes additional symptoms such as rash, enlargedlymph nodes, eye inflammation and generalized redness and...
Kawasaki disease Takayasu's arteritisMost types of vasculitis, according to Mayo Clinic officials, are rare.Can I catch vasculitis like someone would the flu or cold?According to the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center, vasculitis is not contagious."...