Child fever with rash, it need for timely medical treatment
Posted on October 27, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Symptoms, Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Treatment | Leave a Comment
CDC learned that, EV71 virus infection mainly caused hand-foot-mouth disease and viral angina. Such food-borne diseases are common sources of infection, children and adults may be infected with multiple children under 5 years of age. Availability of human infection with EV71 virus immunity, but no vaccine to prevent, you can relapse or re-infection. Many adults, because their immune system strong, and infected with virus disease or disease symptoms did not become a hidden source of transmission of the virus. The disease incubation period 2-7 days, intestinal infectious diseases, easily hidden in the patients and all infected persons saliva, herpes fluid, feces of contaminated items. Virus may be coughing, sneezing, talking and other daily contacts spread to healthy people, especially young children.
It is reported that children suffering from the disease after infection, mostly fever onset, usually around 38 ℃, while in the mouth, hand, foot, buttocks rash, or oral herpes appear. Some children with mild, may from time to heat, only the performance of the hands, feet, buttocks rash or herpes angina. Some children with early stage there will be the performance of cough and other flu-like.
Worthy of attention is, the disease is generally 1 to 2 weeks self-healing, but because of the initial attacks and respiratory infections in general is similar to the child’s early stages, so parents are often thought it was allergies, random kids painted cream. Because of sick children’s resistance to infection will be lowered, once the herpes breaking, it is susceptible to other viruses and bacteria, induced viral pneumonia, myocarditis, encephalitis or sepsis and other complications, if not timely detection and treatment is likely to Therefore, died. Therefore, if a child found to have fever, mouth ulcers and rash on the limbs and other symptoms should seek medical advice promptly.
It is learned that, EV71 virus is a global epidemic virus, are not uncommon, nor are the statutory reporting of infectious diseases. At present, Shandong province has not yet appeared related to outbreaks of disease outbreaks, but the prevention and control measures for disease control departments have been deployed to strengthen the monitoring and statistics similar to the patient, and strive to achieve early detection, early reporting, early diagnosis and early treatment. Experts remind that, with the weather getting hot, spread of the virus reproduction active, sporadic cases showed an increase in the trend started, people should actively carry out prevention. Prevention of infection is most important is personal hygiene, maintain good indoor ventilation; should promptly wash their hands before meals and after. In the period of high incidence of viral infection, parents should be minimized bring the child to crowded places, should avoid contact with children, at the same time improving family health, diligence and drying bedding attention to food hygiene, do not eat unclean, deterioration of food, the a good start with the mouth closed. After the suspension of sick children go to kindergartens and schools should be to prevent transmission to others.
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