Strawberry Tongue

 

Tomisaku Kawasaki conducted much of his clinical work in Tokyo. 

 

 1961 – Kawasaki encountered a young child with an unusual constellation of symptoms: prolonged fever, rash, conjunctival injection, mucosal inflammation, and lymphadenopathy.

 

1967 – He published a landmark paper describing 50 children with what he termed

 

                           “Acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome”

 

 

 

 

Kawasaki Disease

 

 

 

 

 Strawberry Tongue

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Events 

 

Mount Fuji Day 

 

Mount Fuji Day  (Fuji-san no Hi) is observed in Japan on February 23. 

 

The region surrounding Mount Fuji is well known for strawberry farming.

A popular activity near Mount Fuji 

Ichigo-gari (strawberry picking)

 

 

 

 

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