Sign
Conjunctival injection
Redness of the white of the eye from dilated conjunctival vessels; in Kawasaki disease it affects both eyes and has no discharge.
- Found
- On inspection of the eye: redness lying over the conjunctiva that covers the white of the eye.
- Normal
- The conjunctival vessels are fine and the eye looks white.
- Abnormal
- The vessels are dilated and visible as diffuse redness; in Kawasaki disease it is bilateral, typically spares the limbus, and has no exudate.
- Suggests
- Kawasaki disease in a febrile child; a purulent or exudative discharge points instead to infective conjunctivitis.