Typical strawberry tongue of a child with Kawasaki disease

Recently, India’s B.P. Poddar Hospital and Research Center reported a case of Kawasaki Disease, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. An eight-year-old girl went to the hospital for [rash with fever for one week]. Physical examination showed diffuse macula, crack on lips and strawberry tongue. Her body temperature was 39 ℃. Conjunctival congestion in both eyes, swelling of some cervical lymph nodes, redness of palms and metatarsus, mild eczema in both hands and desquamation of palms were found. Heart examination showed no abnormality. Laboratory examination revealed leukocytosis of 13 000/cubic millimeter (normal range is 3 500 ~ 10 500/cubic millimeter); The erythrocyte sedimentation rate was high (80 mm/h) (normal range was 0 ~ 29 mm/h). There were no Read More …

April 11, 2021February 3, 2020 bear

It turns out that you can see so many ways of health from your tongue.

The tongue is probably the most flexible muscle in a person. It can taste, eat, speak, pronounce… Sometimes it can also communicate emotionally (as if something is wrong). The presence of the tongue is usually very weak, but when it has a little ulcer, we can realize the irresistible pain-it turns out that we all use the tongue so frequently. What is a healthy tongue like? Healthy people’s tongues are pink and covered with a light white coating. If you look closely at the surface of the tongue, you will find some densely covered small nodules, which are called [tongue papillae]. Among them, those with taste function are what we often call [taste buds]. Many reasons can cause tongue discomfort Read More …