major features
Last reviewed 03/2022
Major features include:
- fever more than 5 days
- bilateral non-purulent conjunctival congestion
- dry, fissured mouth and lips and a strawberry red tongue
- acute, non-purulent cervical lymphadenopathy in more than 60%
- polymorphous exanthema for days 1 to 5 of the fever; typically there are no vesicles or crusts
- changes in the extremeties:
- reddening and oedema of the hands and feet occurs on days 2 to 5 of the fever
- desquamation of affected skin from days 10 to 15