Admin_NHT Staff asked 5 years ago Kawasaki Disease mainly affects children below the age of 5. It is a condition in which the blood vessels throughout the body get inflamed causing a wide range of symptoms such as prolonged high fever which cannot be managed with medication, genital rashes, redness in palms, lips, eyes, and feet. If untreated for a longer period of time, it can develop cardiac conditions like coronary artery aneurysms (blood clots in the coronary artery) whose rupture may lead to death. The specific cause of the Kawasaki Disease remains unknown but there are a few factors that provide plausible explanations like an inappropriate immune response to an infection, pathogen or bacterial carrier, and also genetic factors (especially in the Japanese lineage).