What to do if your child has strawberry red spots on his tongue

Strawberry spots on your child’s tongue are also known as strawberry tongue or prune tongue. First of all, the etiology should be clarified, that is, what causes it. If it is caused by streptococcal infection, which is most commonly seen clinically as scarlet fever, penicillin can be the first choice, with full dosage and full course of anti-infective treatment to completely remove the pathogen. If it is cutaneous mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome, also known as Kawasaki disease, caused by strawberry tongue, the child most often manifests fever for more than five days, rash, liver and spleen lymph node enlargement, platelet elevation, leukocyte elevation, blood sedimentation faster, ultrasensitive C-reactive protein abnormally elevated, to choose the immunoglobulin in sufficient quantity to apply, at the same time, oral aspirin treatment.