Kawasaki rare disease reappears in Palestine and $ 300 cost of treatment

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Children's health concerns all fathers and mothers, who ask many questions every time their child gets sick, as was the case with the parents of this child, Adil al-Abadala (two years old), when his temperature has suddenly increased as the main indicator of his illness.

As father and father, the Alaa anesthetist tried to reduce her child's fever for 4 days and treated it without result. His father said in his speech to "Homeland": "Our child has not reacted to drugs and antibiotics, Foundation, but also has not improved."

"My child showed doctor Ahmad Al-Farra and told me that Adel did not suffer from scarlet fever, he was suffering from Kawasaki disease, he explained the nature of the disease and has taken an urgent medical transfer to Al-Najah hospital in Nablus, because the dose is not available for treatment Gaza weighs only 5 grams, and my child needs 20 grams and does not is available only in the West Bank. "

"At first, he was accompanied by irritation and rashes all over his body, his tongue turned red like a strawberry, and his eyes also became Hamrautin, as well as his lips," he said. -he declares.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra confirms this very rare disease in Palestine: "There are only two or three cases in Palestine per year and one in 100,000, but it is widespread in Southeast Asia and Japan. , so named Kawasaki, the Japanese scientist, who discovered it when a whole city was hit. "

Al-Farra said in his speech to "Dunia al-Watan": "The disease is infected after a viral infection, creates a problem in the blood vessels, and there are diagnostic criteria, first: there is continuous heat for 5 days, accompanied by rashes, changes in the mouth and tongue, lymphatic glands in the neck and redness of the eyes. "

"The problem is not the high temperature, but the heart muscle, it affects the coronary arteries of the heart, and can destroy, and if it is not diagnosed and treated, may occur blood clots that result in death later, it affects children under five.

"It is treated with 20 doses of gamma globulin and aspirin, available only in the West Bank and Jerusalem, because it is rare and a little expensive," he said. "The dose varies between $ 200 and $ 300".

Al-Farra pointed out that the disease was not contagious, but that she had the most common seasons, the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and that she was following viral infections. "Theories about the real cause of Kawasaki disease are still hypotheses: in Asia, like Japan and others, the Japanese who have emigrated to certain countries of North America, the United States and Canada, have suffered more than the inhabitants of the country in which they emigrated, which proves that race is linked to the disease.

"It is difficult to easily diagnose the disease and requires the intervention of a pediatric specialist because the symptoms are opaque and similar to those of scarlet fever."

The child is recovering, but continues to take anticoagulants for the treatment of clots. This disease affects the coronary arteries of the heart and will remain in this state for a month, until the doctor decides on the next step.