Kawasaki Disease

•It is an acute inflammatory disease of the blood vessels and usually occurs in children below the age of five.
•The inflammation in the coronary arteries that are responsible for supplying blood to the heart results in enlargement or in the formation of aneurysms (swelling of the wall of an artery), leading to heart attacks.
•Symptoms: Fever, rashes, redness of the cornea, red and cracked lips, a red tongue.