4. Joint pain
is an early sign that your child has Kawasaki disease. Most children don’t have joint problems unless they have a health condition that was diagnosed early in life. Joint pain, it will affect a child’s ability to be physically active. At school, they will have to sit down a lot because of the pain. Aspirin will help with the joint pain, but they have to keep taking it every so often.
Aspirin is good with Kawasaki disease. In fact, aspirin is given for Kawasaki disease to lower the risk of having blood clots. The doctor will tell you the proper way to take the aspirin to prevent clots. Gamma globulin may be another treatment that will help your child’s joint pain. It’s an immune protein that is injected with a needle through the veins. It has been reported that children have shown improvement with just one treatment of gamma globulin.