10Jan/090
Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki Disease is in the media these days because of its possible link to the sad death of John Travolta's 16 year old son Jett. Kawasaki's is not at all a common disease, and it causes death only very rarely.
About 30 years ago I was working as an RN on the pediatric floor at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and I took care of a little Asian boy who was diagnosed with the disease. I can recall that we were treating him with large doses of aspirin. He was about five years old and I remember