{"id":5969,"date":"2024-02-27T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:52:37","slug":"how-to-spot-kawasaki-disease-in-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/02\/27\/how-to-spot-kawasaki-disease-in-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot Kawasaki Disease in Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/27\/health\/kawasaki-disease-symptoms.html\">NYT<\/a> Cases of this rare, potentially dangerous childhood illness are growing in the U.S. It is often mistaken for scarlet fever, tick-borne diseases or common viruses. Here\u2019s what to look for.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors across the United States are seeing a rise in Kawasaki disease, a mysterious condition that primarily affects children under 5. The illness is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide but it is often unrecognized or misdiagnosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kawasaki disease is rare, but cases are climbing in the United States. Here are the important things to know about Kawasaki disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-7567c54c\">What to look for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kawasaki disease is marked by a high fever that lasts&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/kawasaki-disease\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354598\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than five days<\/a>, a swollen lymph node on the neck and everything red: swollen red hands and feet, red \u201cstrawberry tongue,\u201d red cracked lips and other red rashes. Often, patients eventually experience skin peeling on the hands and feet. One of the betraying signs of Kawasaki disease is very bloodshot eyes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Cases of this rare, potentially dangerous childhood illness are growing in the U.S. It is often mistaken for scarlet fever, tick-borne diseases or common viruses. Here\u2019s what to look for. Doctors across the United States are seeing a rise in Kawasaki disease, a mysterious condition that primarily affects children under 5. The illness is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}