As promise, here is the post about Kawasaki Disease. My son,
Aqeel has been diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease on 15 September 2011. It started
when he had a slight fever on Sunday 11 September. We didn’t bring him to the
clinic as we thought that it is just a one time fever. So we just gave him
paracetamol. On Monday, the fever is still there, so we decided to bring him to
the clinic for antibiotic. The fever is always below 38C which is not high. (We
have the ear thermometer).
On Wednesday, we found that his lips cracks and both palm
and feet swollen. So we rush to the emergency ward. However, the General Practitioner
informed us that the swollen my caused by allergy. He also advice us to
finished the dosage of the antibiotic given by the clinic as usually the virus
may only disappear after 3 days taking antibiotics. So here we are going back
home.
Thursday morning, his lips began to bleed and he still has
his fever. So we rush to the hospital and directly see his pediatrician. To our
surprise, his temperature is actually 40C. The pediatrician is using the armpit
thermometer instead. (Now we need to have 2 kind of thermometer) She suspected
that he is having Kawasaki Disease since all the symptoms are there. However,
she will treat Aqeel with viral infection first since she need to do test his
blood. By evening, when the doctor do her round checking, she asked the other pediatrician
to look at Aqeel’s condition, and yes they agreed that he is having it. She
quickly ordered immunoglobulin which cost RM10k and it must be used within 1
day. Please refer
here for further
details on the immunoglobulin.
Besides that, the scariest thing to see is when the nurses
clean Aqeel’s lips with salt water. It is very painful I must say. Even the
nurses are very pity to see Aqeel having to go through it. We would have to roll
him in the blanket and keep it tight so that he won’t struggle that much. His
mouth was full of blood when they clean it and he will be screaming his lung
out. The nurses are trying to calm me down by saying that “its ok to see so
many blood..he will recover soon”..
The next day we have an appointment with the Pediatrician
Cardiology at Gleneagles
Hospital since they don’t
have the service at Pantai Cheras. The disease can caused inflammation of the
blood vessels and damage to heart. It would usually take 10 days starting the
day one had fever before this can happen. Luckily, all the vessels are clear
when the cardiology Dr did the echo diagram. However, we need to see him one
week after that since the virus may attack at slower phase. After the one week
appointment, we need to set for 1 month appointment to do detail echo diagram
at the heart. This is to make sure that the virus has really disappeared.
Please read
here of the symptom, treatment for the disease.
Now, the skin at his palm and feet start to peel off. It is very scary but I guess it is not painful. He can still play as usual..naughtier though..but its ok as long as his healthy..
The one month appointment is due next Friday..will update later...
