Children under 3 years old need to guard against Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease
Posted on November 17, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention | 2 Comments
Has entered the peak season of intestinal infectious diseases, it should be how to correctly understand the hand, foot and mouth disease that children frequently-occurring disease, common diseases? Relevant experts believe that, rather than blindly worried, scientific prevention and control, as long as families, schools and medical institutions and other relevant parties attention to the training of public health awareness and to take control measures, hand, foot and mouth disease will eventually dissipated the haze.
Children under 3 years old need to take extra vigilance
Professor Lu Guoping in Shanghai went to hand, foot and mouth disease in Fuyang, Anhui prevention expert group leader, in May this year, he, as members of the Group in Anhui, China launched a hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control work. “Hand, Foot and mouth disease is a common childhood diseases, a large number of cases occur each year. Preschool children aged 2 years -6 infection is the main target. We clinical findings, the vast majority of child deaths occur in severe 3 years of age, disease transfer re usually in 3 days. Thus, whether parents, kindergarten, or medical institutions, are not overlook the incidence of children under 3 years of age performance. “Lu Ping said.
The past 20 years, the shadow of hand, foot and mouth disease has been wandering in some East Asian countries and regions, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China and other places have suffered outbreaks and more severe cases.
Kids got hand, foot and mouth disease, many parents are anxious, or even know what to do. In the famous fence forum “first-time parents,” channels in a baby’s mother “purple snow” post, saying that their children back of the hand has played a red dot, 3 days and also middle of the night fever, had been hurriedly sent to to hospital. Many netizens comforted her, and anxiously inquired about the child’s treatment and condition. “Purple Snow” chose to go home with children every day medication and smearing ointment.
Lu Ping told reporters that more than 90% of the hand, foot and mouth disease have shown symptoms of children were lighter, usually about one week can convalesce in self-healing. During the isolation period, children may be temporarily out, but be careful not to come into contact with people.
Parents are the first barrier in disease prevention
“My children will not be got hand, foot and mouth disease?” The weather turns hot, prickly heat, allergies, insect bites, one by one in the past was ignored red knots are particularly eye-catching looks now, many parents do this are very worried. “Hand, Foot and mouth disease in children with the most common symptom is pain-Zu Xin, oral and perianal area occurred half a tablet of meters in size, such as the prominent red spot at its center a white turbid liquid, but there are very few children who have no red spots . “Shanghai Children’s Medical Center physician Zhouyun Fang, director of infection, said:” Most children’s symptoms are relatively minor, but if there is fever, in particular, is accompanied by rapid heartbeat, mental apathetic, vomiting, tremor and other symptoms, parents should immediately send their children for medical treatment. ”
Parents and children the most intimate contact with most often, but also to prevent Hand, Foot and mouth disease child the first barrier. In addition to constant attention to check whether the child’s body abnormal, the parents are particularly noteworthy is that he could carry, or latent infection of the hand, foot and mouth disease-associated virus. Thus, hand, foot and mouth disease in the peak season at home with infants and young children to adults, the best crowds to reduce the frequency of public places, going home should wash their hands, face, conditional about the best rinse mouth and put on home services.
Right now, some of the southern region has entered the rainy season, although the rainy season with the hand, foot and mouth disease is not directly related, but in the damp, hot environment, the parents and children should pay more attention to personal hygiene, pay attention to wash hands, drink water, eat cooked food , diligence and ventilation, drying clothing. Parents arms, feeding children wash their hands before disinfection, to avoid bring children to crowded areas so that children eat cold drinks, fruit should be consumed after peeling, do not eat rotten food.
Childcare and health care institutions should be closely prevention and control
“My daughter’s nursery school every morning where the children’s hands and mouth view, organize their children wash their hands, if there are suspected sick children will be persuaded to go home and rest, or accompanied by treatment. Nursery room, tableware, toys, also for every days for disinfection. “who lives in Shanghai Hongkou District, Miss Chen Yue told reporters.
Shanghai is the first to hand, foot and mouth disease include infectious diseases, the management of the local city in Anhui Province developed relatively serious outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease, after Shanghai, set up by the epidemiological, clinical, testing, disinfection and supervision, and so experts hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control of the municipal advisory group of experts; from the composition of municipal pediatrician hand, foot and mouth disease expert consultation group to conduct consultations for treatment of severe cases of the guidance; also specifies the treatment of patients with severe hand, foot and mouth disease sentinel hospitals; also produced “nurseries Morning check the content and requirements,” sent to all the nurseries in the city.
Shanghai’s preschool institutions have action, examine morning newly launched and disinfection work. Health and education sectors have also jointly issued a circular, such as one week in the same class, two cases occurred more than two cases with clinical diagnosis of hand, foot and mouth disease or a case of severe, critical or death cases, will depend on the specific circumstances of the institutions to take classes or nurseries closed 2 weeks to three weeks measures.
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