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El Rixon is raising money for Societi, The UK Foundation for Kawasaki Disease
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London Landmarks Half Marathon 2024 · 7 April 2024 ·

Kawasaki disease is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the UK and the western world. It's time we changed that. We have an enormous task to do. But we are going to do it. TOGETHER we will. Join us and help us protect tiny hearts. You can make a difference. Awareness of this often pernicious disease is currently poor. Slow diagnosis and delayed treatment of Kawasaki Disease can cause serious, life-long health issues. Children affected by Kawasaki Disease have excellent chances of a good recovery with timely diagnosis and the correct treatment. At Societi we know that recognising Kawasaki Disease early is THE transformational opportunity to prevent what can be devastating effects from Kawasaki Disease. Kawasaki Disease has lots of symptoms in common with other childhood illnesses so it is often misdiagnosed - this means lifelong heart damage for too many children. Each year in the UK there are more cases of Kawasaki Disease than bacterial meningitis! Everyone would spot meningitis and know what to do, because of brilliant awareness raising work by MRT. We need everyone to recognise Kawasaki Disease too.

Story

I promised to run this 2 years ago. 

Team Thomas is the reason - here is my fiends story 

“To summarise, at the end of October 2017 one of my children became seriously ill with what appeared to be flu (with some unusual symptoms). Unfortunately, after 6 days (a trip to the doctors, blood tests and an overnight stay in a small hospital) the doctor decided it was an infection and gave him antibiotics. Fast forward 24 hours, we had gone to a bigger hospital, and he had been diagnosed with Kawasaki disease and was on life support fighting for his life. 5 weeks later, my previously healthy 5 year old came home with an aneurysm.

 
If I knew then, what I know now, I would have asked the doctors if they had checked for Kawasaki disease as he had 5 symptoms. 
Early treatment is key. There is no test to check for the disease and it is still not known how it is caught so it relies on people knowing the symptoms.

Before COVID hit, a team of my friends ran the Swansea half marathon. We raised so much awareness (and some money for the charity) because we were so noticable! We got people talking about Kawasaki disease.” - Marchiori #teamthomas

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