Kawasaki Disease

Kawasaki Disease is an infection that can be very dangerous if not taken care of when diagnosed. This is a very rare disease that occurs mostly in children from birth to age 5. Kawasaki Disease mostly occurs in Japan and the area’s that surround it. In this essay you will learn about the effects that this disease would have on your family and friends, the effects it will have on your diet, the causes and symptoms and the effects on your quality of life.

Kawasaki Disease and the effects on your quality of life. If you are diagnosed with kawasaki disease (mostly at a young age) if they have treatment right away then if they are lucky will not have many health problems in the future. Some health problems that you may encounter if not treated properly could include blood problems, and sometimes even heart attacks. Also you need to go in for regular check ups to make sure that the problem does not come back. Also this could effect your quality of life in the way that you have to go through a lot of treatments, and you have to spend a lot of time in the hospital.

Kawasaki Disease has very specific symptoms to look for, and at first you may even think its is just a head cold or just a fever, and that is why you have to look for all of the symptoms and not only a few. Some of these symptoms include chapped, cracked and/ or red lips. Swollen hands and feet, swelling on both sides of the body, and or joint pain. Skin rashes, peeling skin mostly on the hands and feet. Vomiting, diarrhea and cough, and an extremely high temperature. There is no cause for this disease that doctors have found how ever they believe it to be am autoimmune disease meaning that your body mistakes and attacks healthy body tissues.

Kawasaki Disease can have major effects on not only you but also your friends and family. When you have kawasaki disease I think that it can effect your friends and family a lot more then you would normally think because i have been in the position as a sister of someone with kawasaki disease. If you are going through this then you will want all of your friends and your family at your side because going through things like this infection by yourself can be painful and also when you have this, and you are in the hospital you will be having lots of tests and IV needles and things that you cant go through on your own.

This disease can have many effects on your diet, there are certain things that you can and can not eat when you have this infection. For example when you are sick you have symptoms of vomiting and because of that you can not eat many things and i have seen it, of how someone can starve them self because of this. My brother was sick for 3 weeks with Kawasaki Disease, and i saw the major impact that it had on his life, he lost a lot of weight by having this sickness, and it was really scary to see because at the time the doctors had no idea what was wrong with him.

Kawasaki Disease from a sisters point of view. When my brother got sick my entire family and the doctors had no idea what was wrong with him because he was 13 at the time and this normally happens in children 5 or under. So they had to do lots of different tests on my brother to try and find out what was wrong with him because he had been sick for a week and was not getting better at all. So once they found out what was wrong with him, the doctors had to put him on severe medication to try and get a hold of the disease. When all of this was going on my younger siblings and I were kept in the dark, all we were told was that he was very sick and that they did not know what was wrong with him at the time. This experience was the scariest moment on my life because i thought that i was going to lose my brother to something that my parents were not telling me about. When i went to go and see my brother in the hospital, it was the scariest thing i had ever seen, he was attached to several different machines and he had lots of needles and things in his body to try and feed him for all the food that he couldn’t eat. I had never seen my brother looking that un healthy. He was sick and thin, and he looked very unhealthy. It was very scary seeing my brother in that much pain, he could not move or eat or sleep. There was no way of knowing if he was going to be okay, and because of that, i chose kawasaki disease as my essay topic.