How is hand, foot and mouth disease diagnosed? How to tell if you have hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is divided into common cases and severe HFMD cases. Now is the season of high incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease, and any rash on any part of the hand, foot and mouth can be diagnosed as a common hand, foot and mouth disease case. Oral erythematous papules, fever, drowsiness, dyspnea, and circulatory disorders are considered severe hand-foot-and-mouth cases, and the diagnosis needs to be confirmed after viral nucleic acid testing or IgM testing.

Children with the above symptoms need to be treated in a designated hospital in time.

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common condition in infants and children. Characterised by fever, mouth ulcers, and herpes. Initial symptoms are low-grade fever, loss of appetite, malaise, and often sore throat.

Mouth sores appear after 1 to 2 days of fever, beginning as a red vesicle rash and then often becoming ulcers. Oral herpes is commonly found on the tongue, gums, and buccal mucous membranes of the mouth. 1 After 2 days**maculopapular rash, some are herpes, the rash is not itchy, it is common on the palms and soles of the feet, but it can also be seen on the buttocks.

Some patients have only a rash or mouth sores.

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Generally, there are foamers on the mouth, hands and feet.

Patients with mild symptoms such as cough, runny nose and drooling may have symptoms similar to upper respiratory tract infection in the early stage, and some children may have nausea and vomiting. Fever 1 to 2 days after the appearance of a rash, usually on the hands, feet, buttocks, or oral mucosal herpes. Some children do not have fever and only present with rash on the hands, feet, and buttocks or herpangina, which is mild.

Most children recover within a week of a drop in body temperature, resolution of rash, and recovery. Meningitis, encephalitis, encephalomyelitis, pulmonary edema, circulatory disorders, etc. occur in severe cases about 1-5 days after the onset of the disease, and a very small number of cases are critically ill and can cause death, and surviving cases can leave sequelae. Severe patients present with poor spirit, drowsiness, irritability, headache, vomiting, and even coma; limb tremor, myoclonus, eye movement disorders; shortness of breath, dyspnea, cyanosis of the lips, cough, cough up white, pink, or bloody frothy sputum; pale complexion, cold extremities, cyanosis of the fingers (toes); The pulse is shallow or weakened or even disappears, and blood pressure rises or falls.

Generally, there is no pain or itching, and there are no traces after healing. Hand, foot, and mouth diseases may not all occur in the same patient. The blisters and rash usually subside within a week.

In general, there are the following points. Pay attention to isolation, prevent cross-infection, pay attention to oral care, properly reduce fever, give antiviral ** such as Banlan root, Qingkailing, Pudilan, etc., oral Shicklau, Fumei, etc. to prevent infection, and drink more water. At present, it is recommended to check a blood routine and cardiac enzyme spectrum, low-grade fever, less than 38 degrees, the child is in good spirits and eats well, but there is no need to worry, symptomatic treatment is enough.

Remember to observe the baby's palms, feet, and mouths every day to see if there are any small red blisters (small blisters that are painful and not itchy), and wash your hands frequently. The following is my experience with my baby last week, I hope it can help you.

Last week, my baby had a lot of small red blisters on the back of his hands, I was worried that it was hand, foot and mouth, and took it to the children's hospital to hang up the ** department, and I asked to know that it was mite allergy, because the baby kept shouting itchy, let me scratch him.

The doctor said that the small blisters of the hands, feet and mouth are not itchy, and they are more around the nails, and the child will cry, and the mouth will rise in severe cases, and it will be difficult to swallow.

My baby is 14 months old and has blister-like pimples on his legs and arms, a dozen of them combined. Could it be hand, foot and mouth disease?! h

When Aung Sang's hand, foot and mouth disease occurs, the child often starts with fever, and the fever varies, and there are also people who do not have fever, but about half of the patients have a low-grade fever. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as salivation, runny nose, sore mouth, sore throat and anorexia. Clinically, oral and hand and foot herpes are the main features.

Oral herpes occurs on the tongue, buccal mucosa, hard palate, lips, pharynx, and tonsils, about 3 mm in size, and rapidly breaks down to form ulcers. The rash is mostly seen in the distal ends of the hands and feet, between the fingers and fingers, the edge of the heel and around the nails, the palms and plantar are also common, and the lower limbs and buttocks can be densely distributed papuli-like rash, which is a maculopapular rash at first, and then changes to herpes, round or oval, about 3 7mm the size of a grain of rice, smaller than the chickenpox rash, with a hard texture and a red halo around. The number of herpes is small to a few few, and there are dozens of herpes.

The general course of the disease is mild and short, more than 1 week to heal, the rash subsides without scarring or pigmentation, if there is a secondary infection, the damage is often aggravated.

Hand, foot and mouth disease can be seen all year round, especially in summer and autumn. In the early stages of the disease, there are fever, cough, runny nose and drooling like upper respiratory tract infections, and some children may have symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. Later, oval or fusiform blisters appear on the dorsal fingers and toes of the hands and feet, and there is a red halo around the blister, the fluid of the blister is clear, and the long axis of the blister is consistent with the skin lines.

Then the center of the blister is depressed, yellow, dry, and comes off (desquamation). In addition, there are scattered hard, reddish papules or herpes on the tips of the fingers and toes. At the same time, there are scattered blisters in the oral cavity, such as lips, tongue, oral mucosa, and gums, but the blisters in the oral cavity quickly burst and form gray-white dots or gray-white membranes, surrounded by redness, and punctate or flaky erosions can be seen under the gray-white membrane.

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is caused by viral infections such as herpes fluid, throat secretions, fecal-contaminated hands, toys, eating utensils, etc.

Hello, judging from what you said, it is impossible to accurately determine whether it is hand, foot and mouth disease.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, which mostly occurs in children under 5 years of age, and the clinical manifestations vary, mild cases without complications are generally cured in about a week.

Your child's presentation is only herpes on the hands and feet, and there are no other manifestations, which does not rule out the possibility of hand, foot and mouth disease, and mild hand, foot and mouth disease is also atypical, showing only a single or a few parts or only maculopapular rash.

Wait. If you want to confirm the diagnosis, you need to test for the virus, but it will take 2-4 weeks for the results to be available.

**Mild symptoms are mainly resting and symptomatic treatment.

Hello, hand, foot and mouth disease is a common disease in babies and children. The common symptoms are: 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.

If your baby has these symptoms, you should go to the hospital for a diagnosis in time**.

Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses, and there are more than 20 types of enteroviruses that cause HFMD, among which coxsackievirus A16 (COX A16) and enterovirus 71 (EV 71) are the most common. Confirmation of hand, foot and mouth disease can be detected by blood tests.

Whether there is a continuous high fever or anti-** fever, whether there is herpes on the hands and feet and in the mouth, choose the ** plan according to the herpes ulceration situation, please ask for details!

If you have eczema on your hands, feet and mouth, it doesn't matter at the beginning, you can drink more water and eat banlan root.

Your baby has a runny nose, drooling, and blisters on his hands and feet.

Check whether your child has a fever and whether there are white spots in the mouth.