Monday, March 31, 2008

To prevent Kawasaki disease in children with fever

Children with fever, parents can not relax our vigilance that only ordinary influenza, his casual drug to the child will eat it. According to paediatricians that every 100,000 children under five years of age, there are hundreds of children suffering from a disease called Kawasaki disease. Sick children in the early fever is like a general kind, but ill, it would affect the operation of cardiac function, or even death. Kawasaki disease in the developed countries, heart disease has become a child one of the main reasons. Kawasaki disease can be divided into acute, sub-acute and rehabilitation period of three phases. The acute phase symptoms include persistent fever 5-14 days, neck lymphadenopathy, two conjunctival hyperemia, redness and chapped lips, strawberry tongue was swelling with hands and feet palm redness, the heart and blood vessels also introduced Yan. Fever patients, after entering the acute phase, toes pointed fingers started peeling a film, inflammation of the joints, swelling, increase in the number of platelets. To the rehabilitation stage, the patient's blood will be back to normal, symptoms will gradually disappear. However, the need for doctors or patients with cardiac ultrasound scanning to ensure that the cardiovascular have resumed normal. Younger children, suffer from the higher risk of Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki disease patients admitted in hospital, receiving aspirin and immunoglobulin antibody treatment, until the burning retreated, and the rehabilitation of the site inflammation. It is particularly important that in the 10 days before the onset of early treatment, which can reduce complications arising. Kawasaki disease patients if not promptly treated, 15 to 25 percent will vascular inflammation, leading to abnormal coronary expansion. Blood will not normal expansion of coronary vulnerable solidification, and the result of abnormal myocardial infarction and arrhythmia, causing death.

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