-
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a viral infection. The most common pathogen is a class A coxsackievirus, a type of enterovirus. Hand, foot and mouth disease usually occurs in summer and early autumn.
Symptoms Symptoms of a cold may occur at the beginning of the illness, and the fever may last for 4 to 5 days. The palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and sometimes the buttocks, can also appear with a rash or water. There will be painful sores in the mouth that make it difficult to swallow and thus loss of appetite.
These blisters and rashes usually subside within 7 to 10 days. Complications are uncommon. Rarely, viral meningitis can occur.
Mode of transmission HFMD is mainly transmitted through food contaminated with faeces. Direct contact with punctured blisters can also spread the virus. Patients are most likely to transmit the disease to others during the first week of illness, and the patient's stool remains contagious for several weeks.
Incubation Period The incubation period ranges from 3 to 7 days. In most cases, fever, rash and ulcers will resolve spontaneously within 1 week, and patients are usually completely **. At present, there is no effective treatment** for this disease, but symptoms can be used to relieve the patient's heat and the pain caused by ulcers.
Wash hands immediately after handling discharge, faeces and soiled items from the nose and throat. If a child has a high fever, loss of energy or worsening condition, parents should bring their children to the doctor as soon as possible. Prevention The most important way to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease is to pay attention to personal hygiene.
1.Maintain good air circulation. 2.
Wash your hands before eating, after using the toilet, and after handling diapers or other fecal-stained items. 3.Keep your hands clean and wash your hands the right way.
4.Wash your hands immediately after they become soiled with respiratory secretions, such as after sneezing. 5.
Cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough and clear your mouth and nose of secretions. 6.Children's toys or other items should be washed thoroughly and frequently.
7.Sick children should stay at home until the fever and rash have subsided and all blisters have crusted over before returning to school. 8.
Reduce to crowded places.
-
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a disease caused by an enterovirus infection! Cough first. Rhinorrhea.
Dysphoria. Crying. Most do not have fever or have a low-grade fever, 1-3 days after the onset of the hand.
A rash appears on the soles of the feet and in the mouth, the diameter of the rash is about 3 millimeters, and when the rash turns into blisters, it can be transmitted to others! This disease generally occurs in babies under the age of five, and this disease must be infected only if it is in contact with hands and feet, so when the epidemic occurs, you must not take your children to play in the epidemic area, and do not come into contact with the patient! It is worth noting that adults will also carry this germ, which will not cause disease, but will be transmitted to children, so adults who go out and go home must remember to disinfect their hands first!
-
Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease 1. Acute onset, fever; 2. Scattered herpes appear in the oral mucosa, the size of rice grains, and the pain is obvious; 3. Rice-sized blisters appear on the palms or soles of the feet, and the buttocks or knees can occasionally be affected; 4. There is inflammatory redness around the herpes, and there is less fluid in the blister; 5. Some children may be accompanied by cough, runny nose, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and headache.
-
1. Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, and there are more than 20 types of enteroviruses that cause hand, foot and mouth disease, among which coxsackievirus A16 (COX A16) and enterovirus 71 (EV 71) are the most common.
2. It mostly occurs in children under 5 years old, showing mouth pain, anorexia, low-grade fever, vesicles or small ulcers in the hands, feet, oral cavity and other parts, most of the children will heal themselves in about a week, and a few children can cause myocarditis, pulmonary edema, aseptic meningoencephalitis and other complications.
3. The disease of some seriously ill children progresses rapidly, resulting in death. At present, there is a lack of effective **drugs, mainly symptomatic**.
-
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an epidemic epidemic in babies under the age of 5 from May to August, and it is necessary to go to the hospital in time after getting sick, and pay attention to the baby's health and environmental hygiene.
-
High fever, bubbles in the hands and feet.
-
Long-term high fever, dyspnea, heart failure, convulsions and other symptoms.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an acute infectious disease caused by intestinal coxsackievirus, the main clinical manifestations are fever and rash of the mouth, hands and feet, mostly in children under 4 years old, the peak incidence is in summer, and the main way of transmission is through the respiratory tract or through contaminated toys and unclean hands. The initial symptom of the child's onset is that the fever mostly occurs before the rash, the fever course ranges from 2 to 7 days, the higher the body temperature, the longer the fever course, the more serious the condition, accompanied by pain at the corners of the mouth, sore throat, drooling, do not like to eat, 1 to 2 days later, there is a scattered rash, the most common parts are the palms, the center of the feet, the oral mucosa, the perianal area, a small number of children affect the limbs and buttocks, and the trunk is very rare. Although hand, foot and mouth disease in children is not a critical disease, the incubation period of mild cases is usually 3 to 4 days, and it can be cured spontaneously. >>>More
Hand, foot and mouth disease is an epidemic epidemic in babies under the age of 5 from May to August, and it is necessary to go to the hospital in time after getting sick, and pay attention to the baby's health and environmental hygiene.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common infectious disease caused by a variety of enteroviruses, the clinical manifestations are characterized by fever and rash or herpes on the hands, feet, oral cavity and other parts, a small number of patients can be complicated by aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory tract infection and myocarditis, etc., and individual severe children have rapid progression and can lead to death. When a person has hand, foot and mouth disease, after a minimum of 12 24 hours, a maximum of 6 days, and a general incubation period of 2 days, the acute onset of the disease, the clinical manifestations are fever, the body temperature can reach more than 38 degrees, the oral mucosa, hands, feet and buttocks appear maculopapular rash, herpes, accompanied by cough, runny nose, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, headache and other symptoms. Personal prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease should be done: 1. Wash hands with soap or hand sanitizer before meals and after going out, do not let children drink raw water, eat raw and cold food, and avoid contact with sick children; 2. Caregivers should wash their hands before touching children, change diapers for young children, and dispose of feces properly; 3. Feeding bottles and pacifiers used by infants and young children should be fully cleaned before and after use; 4. During the epidemic period of the disease, it is not advisable to take children to public places where crowds gather and poor air circulation, pay attention to maintaining family environmental hygiene, ventilate the room frequently, and dry clothes and quilts frequently.
An outbreak of enterovirus enteric EV71 infection in Anhui Province has surged more than 1,500 children with hand, foot and mouth disease. It's really heart-wrenching. This is a short article I made last year, and I sent it again to give parents a reference. >>>More
Complications: Hand, foot and mouth disease is manifested in the ** and oral cavity, but the virus can invade the heart, brain, kidneys and other vital organs. When the disease is prevalent, it is necessary to strengthen the clinical monitoring of patients, such as high fever, unexplained increase in white blood cells and no other infection foci can be detected, it is necessary to be alert to the occurrence of fulminant myocarditis. >>>More