KAWASAKI DISEASE
KAWASAKI DISEASE
NOTE: This subject is not in Dr. Jacob’s book. However, many observations in his book compared with some of the findings from the doctors treating this disease point to the possible benefit of MSM to help relieve this condition.
Kawasaki disease is one of the most common causes of acquired heart conditions in children. Most children recover completely. The disease causes inflammation of the coronary arteries that deliver oxygen-rich blood to the heart. The artery walls can balloon or bulge, a condition called an aneurysm.
The condition, which usually occurs in children under five, is easy to miss: There is no diagnostic test, and its symptoms — a high fever, rash, red cracked lips and a “strawberry tongue” — look to many doctors like scarlet fever, measles, or a tick-borne illness, despite its signature distinction of bloodshot eyes.
Dr. Jane Burns, MD, from the Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, after more than thirty years of searching for the cause of this condition, found that it may be caused by the presence of the fungus “Candica” in the air. She has not been able to pursue her findings for lack of funds.
However, a few years later, with the help of new environmental and data analyst scientists, they found that the COVID-19 outbreak changed the pattern of patients affected by the disease was very different for the different age groups of children affected.
To make a long story short, Dr. Burns has been working on this health challenge for over forty years and is mostly at the same point as she was when she started as far as finding what causes this condition.
The good news is that, as long as Kawasaki disease is detected and treated within a few days, outcomes tend to be positive. Patients are admitted to the hospital and given a hefty infusion of intravenous immunoglobulin, or IVIG, a concoction of antibodies, to quickly calm the inflammatory response.
With what is written above, with what we have seen in other diseases with inflammation, the different body reactions to the cause of this disease, and other conditions with the Candida fungus that MSM helps, it looks very much like an allergic reaction to an allergen, in this case the Candida fungus.
You can see examples of this Candida fungus in Oral Thrush and vaginal yeast infections. You can also see allergic reaction symptoms being well mitigated with MSM in the Allergy section of this website.
The use of MSM nutritional supplement may help prevent the unset of this condition by preventing inflammation as it has done with many allergies and fungus associated with other medical conditions.
Because of the young age of the children affected by this condition, they probably should start with a small dose of 500 mg to a maximum of 1,500 gm of MSM daily in the form of crystals or capsules. The crystals mixed in their daily fluid intake is probably advisable to make the MSM available to the child all day long.
As we have seen all over on this website, MSM does not interact with any medication, is easily available, and provides a natural constituent of your body that our diet cannot provide.
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