9 Childhood Illnesses: Get the Facts
WebMD shares facts on 9 childhood illnesses you may not know about: RSV, fifth disease, croup, scarlet fever, impetigo, Kawasaki disease, Reye's syndrome, whooping cough, and hand, foot, and mouth disease. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to Spot Kawasaki Disease in Your Child
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 ’s what to look for. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Baumgaertner Tags: your-feed-science Kawasaki Disease Children and Childhood Content Type: Service Heart Aneurysms United States your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
A Doctor ’s Lifelong Quest to Solve One of Pediatric Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
For 40 years, Dr. Jane Burns has been working to find the cause of Kawasaki disease, an illness that can lead to aneurysms and heart attacks. Her work has brought together a most unlikely team. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Baumgaertner and Ariana Drehsler Tags: your-feed-science Kawasaki Disease Heart Doctors Children and Childhood Babies and Infants Aneurysms Deaths (Fatalities) University of California, San Diego Dr. Jane Burns your-feed-healthcare Japan San Diego (Calif) United State Source Type: news
Prenatal Folic Acid Supplements Tied to Lower Risk of Kawasaki Disease in Babies
(MedPage Today) -- Folic acid supplementation throughout pregnancy was correlated with a lower risk of early-onset Kawasaki disease in offspring, a Japanese observational study showed.
In a propensity score-matched model, children of women with... (Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN)
Source: MedPage Today OB/GYN - January 1, 2024 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
When Should We Consider A Rickettsial Disease?
Discussion
Rickettsioses are “small, obligate intracellular, gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillary α-proeobacteria” from the genuses Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, and Orientia genuses. Often they cause limited health problems but can cause severe disease and death. They present with a fever and other non-specific signs and symptoms, usually with a rash and lymphadenopathy. Other problems can include:
Cardiac – endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis
Gastrointestinal – abdominal pain, acute abdomen, cholecystitis, hepatitis, pancreatitis
Heme/Lymph – hemophagocytosis, lymph...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - December 18, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Blood Test Could Ease Diagnosis of Kids' Inflammatory Conditions
(MedPage Today) -- Elevations in a single cytokine species were uniquely characteristic of Kawasaki disease in children versus other inflammatory disorders with similar presentations, researchers said, paving the way for a blood test to aid differential... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - August 25, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
What is PAN?
Discussion
Vasculitis is an inflammation of the blood vessels. Often, the term implies the arterial vessels, but venous and capillary vessels can be affected. The nomenclature to describe vasculitis and its classification have varied over time. Arterial vessel size is one method and some more common entities include:
Small vessel, mainly
Granulomatous – granulomatosis with polyangiitis (aka Wegener’s granulomatosis), eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (aka Churg Strauss syndrome)
Nongranulomatous – Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP), microscopic polyangiitis
Medium vessel, mainly
Childhood sys...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 27, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Coronavirus Disease 2019-related Kawasaki Syndrome Coronavirus Disease 2019-related Kawasaki Syndrome
Was this young previously healthy 8-year-old ' s Kawasaki disease triggered by COVID-19 infection?Journal of Medical Case Reports (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 17, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
AI Can Identify Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
THURSDAY, Oct. 6, 2022 -- A deep-learning algorithm called KIDMATCH can distinguish between multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), Kawasaki disease, and other similar febrile illnesses in children, according to a study published in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 6, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
What to Know About High Cholesterol in Kids
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., but it’s not something we usually associate with kids. In many cases, however, the seeds of heart attacks and strokes may be sown in childhood.
That’s because high or abnormal cholesterol levels, which are a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, are not uncommon in kids. “People may feel that cholesterol is mostly an adult issue, which is not correct,” says Dr. Nivedita Patni, a pediatric endocrinologist at Children’s Health in Dallas and an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
About 1 in 5 child...
Source: TIME: Health - July 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sandeep Ravindran Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Pandemic Public Health Measures May Have Eased Kawasaki Disease Pandemic Public Health Measures May Have Eased Kawasaki Disease
The incidence of Kawasaki disease in the United States declined by 28.2% between 2018 and 2020.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - June 21, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Cases of Kawasaki Disease in the U.S. Dropped During Pandemic
MONDAY, June 20, 2022 -- The incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) decreased during periods of COVID-19-related masking and school closure, according to a study published online June 17 in JAMA Network Open.
Jennifer A. Burney, Ph.D., from the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 20, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
More Evidence Kawasaki Disease Trigger Is Something in the Air
(MedPage Today) -- The pandemic set the stage for a drop in Kawasaki disease (KD) cases that later rebounded with the lifting of mask mandates and return of in-person school, a study found.
Supporting the theory that KD can be triggered by airborne... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - June 17, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Chilblains: An Old But Now More Common Problem
Discussion
Chilblains is also known as perniosis is an “…inflammatory dermatosis that generally affects the dorsal feet or hands during the periods of damp and cold, but not freezing, conditions…” It produces acryl lesions.
Chilblains may be derived from the Old English words “chill” and “blegen” (sore). Pernio is thought be derivative of pern(a) or haunch of the leg as the feet and legs are commonly affected. Chilblain is usually idiopathic but has been associated with Raynaud disease, blood problems including cryofibrinogenemia and rheumatologic conditions such as systemic ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - May 30, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
What is in the Differential Diagnosis for Red, Orange or Yellow Skin Conditions?
Discussion
This is the first in a short case series of differential diagnoses of colored skin conditions.
A differential diagnosis by distribution and common pattern can be found here.
For green, blue and violet conditions, a review can be found here.
For black and white conditions, a review can be found here.
For brown and grey conditions, a review can be found here.
Note that any color can be a normal variant for an individual or is physiologic for a given state.
The skin is the largest organ of the body. It can be easily examined but for many clinicians continues to be difficult to describe what they are seeing. Analo...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 25, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
