Kawasaki like disease covid symptoms. It also appears to affect a higher proportion of black and asian patients. Its a specter in pediatrics says dr. Signs and symptoms pims ts appears to be more likely to affect older children than kawasaki disease average nine years old versus four years old respectively and presents more often with abdominal pains and diarrhoea alongside the common features such as persistent fever.
Clinical guidance unchanged at this time pediatricians are well aware of the symptoms of kawasaki disease including high fever flushed skin and eyes rash swollen hands and feet strawberry tongue and bloodwork indicating an extremely high inflammatory response. A new serious covid 19 cardiovascular presentation emerged in late april and early may 2020 in the form of pediatric multi system inflammatory syndrome which includes features similar to kawasaki diseaseit was first reported in the united kingdom and then cases began to appear in new york city and elsewhere in the united states. Symptoms of kawasaki disease include abdominal pain fever nausea and vomiting and severe rash.