Chinese medicine treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease

Posted on October 14, 2009
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Hand-foot-mouth syndrome, referred to as “hand, foot and mouth disease.” More clinical in recent years to see a contagious disease. It is caused by intestinal viruses, but also the mouth, hands and feet as the main features of herpes occur. Usually from March to November season for the onset of disease and 6-August peak. Of any age can this disease, but more common for children 1-4, the number of patients account for about 85% -95%.

TCM theory holds that the disease because of this disease Immunotoxin Exogenous hot and humid. When the vaccine damp heat evil hurt Feipi two dirty, causing pulmonary toxicity Wei disharmony or evil simmers in the spleen, so that spleen limbs and opens into the mouth of dysfunction, the clinical features of the above, while accompanied by fever, runny nose, cough and other micro-flu-like symptoms or summer, salivation, poor feeding, irritability embolism.

Efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine treatment of the disease quite good, both to eliminate, to relieve symptoms and reduce the course of the disease. The onset of the early and mid-term, generally use more heat-clearing and detoxifying, Huashi cooling blood therapy, commonly used drugs Silver Flower, Forsythia, Huang Qin, gardenia, raw plantago-jen, Arctium Lappa, Chan Yi, Lithospermum, reed rhizome, bamboo leaves, Gypsum, Coptis chinensis, rush, 61 bulk, etc.; in the latter part of the disease, if the see the hand, foot and heart heat, eat less, irritability embolism, you can then add raw land, Ophiopogon japonicus, Bai Wei, Yu-zhu Yin, etc. heat of the product.

The disease mainly through food, mouth and nose droplet and contact transmission, prevention should primarily be to the Lord; 1. Note that food hygiene to avoid illness from the mouth; 2. To avoid contact with children, child care institutions have found the patient to to take quarantine measures; 3. peacetime physical fitness training should be strengthened; 4. Spleen and Stomach, early treatment of food product.

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