Cutaneous mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, also known as Kawasaki disease, is an acute febrile eruptive disorder characterized by inflammation of small and medium-sized arteries throughout the body as the main pathologic change. The most serious danger is coronary dilatation and aneurysm formation caused by coronary artery injury, which is one of the leading causes of acquired heart disease in children.
Clinical manifestations are fever, bulbar conjunctiva congestion, lip congestion and cracking, tongue papilla congestion and protrusion of “prune tongue”, hard edema of hands and feet, palm and plantar erythema, scarlet fever-like rash, swollen lymph nodes in the neck and so on. Treatment includes: medication, such as glucocorticoids and immunoglobulin; and surgery, such as coronary artery bypass grafting.
It is a self-limiting disease with a good prognosis in most cases, but a few severe cases will die due to rupture of coronary aneurysm, myocardial infarction, etc. Therefore, you should go to the hospital immediately when you have the symptoms mentioned above and standardize the treatment.