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4 kids admitted to Rady?s with rare wind-borne disease; more cases suspected
Posted 11:20 AM, October 26, 2018, by San Diego Union-Tribune and Sharon Chen, Updated at 05:02PM, October 26, 2018
SAN DIEGO -- At 21 months old, Jett Roper never stops moving -- until he came down with a 102-degree fever and full-body rash on Oct. 11.
"He had bloodshot eyes and even the whole (area around his eye) was red," his mother, Janalee Roper told FOX 5.
At first, Janalee though it was the flu bug. But after multiple visits to Urgent Care and the pediatrician, Jett still didn't improve. It wasn't until she took her son to Rady Children's Hospital that she found the answer.
"The doctor said it was Kawasaki's. I was like, 'What? No, not my son,'" Janalee said.
?Kawasaki?s Disease is an inflammatory disorder that affects children. It presents fever and rash and can look like a lot of other pediatric illnesses," explained Dr. Adrianna Tremoulet, Associate Director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at UC San Diego.
Dr. Tremoulet said in San Diego about 80 to 100 kids are affected by the disease each year. Jett was one of four kids diagnosed in recent months...
4 kids admitted to Rady?s with rare wind-borne disease; more cases suspected
Posted 11:20 AM, October 26, 2018, by San Diego Union-Tribune and Sharon Chen, Updated at 05:02PM, October 26, 2018
SAN DIEGO -- At 21 months old, Jett Roper never stops moving -- until he came down with a 102-degree fever and full-body rash on Oct. 11.
"He had bloodshot eyes and even the whole (area around his eye) was red," his mother, Janalee Roper told FOX 5.
At first, Janalee though it was the flu bug. But after multiple visits to Urgent Care and the pediatrician, Jett still didn't improve. It wasn't until she took her son to Rady Children's Hospital that she found the answer.
"The doctor said it was Kawasaki's. I was like, 'What? No, not my son,'" Janalee said.
?Kawasaki?s Disease is an inflammatory disorder that affects children. It presents fever and rash and can look like a lot of other pediatric illnesses," explained Dr. Adrianna Tremoulet, Associate Director of the Kawasaki Disease Research Center at UC San Diego.
Dr. Tremoulet said in San Diego about 80 to 100 kids are affected by the disease each year. Jett was one of four kids diagnosed in recent months...