The Kawasaki Disease Forum

I am a chemical engineer working on a new hypothesis for KD. After cleaning carpets with mechanical devices, or after kids crawling/scuffing on them, carpets can build up to -20,000 volts or more of static electrical charge due to triboelectric effects. The children can charge up to +20,000 volts. This is the same for kids sliding on plastic playground slides and getting shocked each time down the slide or after diving on artificial turf, which also generates lots of static electricity. If you do the calculations, the synthetic carpets and playground slides would exceed IEC 60065 safety guidelines for static electricity transferred to humans. It would also explain increase with colder weather( lower humidity generates more static) and increase in Japanese, because they take off shoes inside and generate more static and also practice martial arts with bare feet on rubber mats.

http://darkmattersalot.com/2016/03/04/kawasaki-disease/

Very interesting....would love to see where you go with this.

Rob, I just placed a new graph on my blog of monthly Kawasaki disease rates in San Diego vs Humidity which implies Kawasaki disease may be triggered by an electrostatic imbalance between the child, atmosphere and contact with Earth ground.

High electrostatic voltage potentials can build on children when air is drier and there is a charge imbalance.

Stewart

Kawasaki disease rates also climb when winds shift over desert/dry land such as in San Diego when the Santa Ana winds blow and humidity drops as well as winds shifting in Chile, Hawaii and Japan - just Google it. The wind carries lots of fine desert sand particles which can create tremendous amounts of static electrical charge in the atmosphere(can trigger lightning). Electrical charge(~25,000 volts) can build up on all insulators such as poly plastics and rubber. I updated the two posts on my site and I am going to write a short summary paper this weekend.

Stewart