Chinese medicine treatment to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
Posted on December 12, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention, Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Treatment | Leave a Comment
Hand, Foot and mouth disease prevention and treatment of Chinese medicine has an advantage, the sooner intervention prevention and treatment of Chinese medicine, the more effective prevention of Hand, Foot and mouth disease, hand foot and mouth disease to reduce complications and mortality and improve the curative effect. On how to prepare his Hand, Foot and mouth disease prevention and control work in Chinese medicine to talk about his views.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal virus, infectious diseases, three sick babies under the age of majority, often occurs in nurseries or kindergartens mass popularity. The reason called “Hand, Foot and mouth disease” is due in hand after onset, foot skin and oral mucosa will appear similar to the kind of herpes varicella.
Hand, foot and mouth disease during the performance are: baby 1-2 weeks before the onset of illness, usually with the hand, foot and mouth disease of children with a history of exposure. Most show a sudden fever, body temperature more in more than 38 ℃, accompanied by headache, cough, runny nose and other symptoms. Fever at the same time or 1-2 days after the oral mucosa, lips appeared in herpes, ulcers formed after ulcerated, it is pain, so in children than salivation, irritability, constant crying, refusing to eat. Then, in the children’s palms, soles of the feet and buttocks appear round or oval-shaped herpes. Herpes hard, sizes, which contains a turbid liquid, around the weeks to flush. However, the hand, foot and mouth disease is a mild disease, about a week or so will be restored, generally do not have serious complications. As long as proper care, herpes and will not leave the skin pigmentation or scars. May be complicated by a small number of patients with aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory infections and myocarditis, etc., individual children with severe illness with rapid, easy die. Infants under the age of three multiple adults can also be infected, infected do not take the disease, but can spread the virus. Sanitation, poor food hygiene, poor personal hygiene easy to disease. Hand, Foot and mouth disease transmission and more generally susceptible infants and children. Children do individuals, families and nurseries in health is the key to prevention of infection in this disease.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is a traditional Chinese medicine on how to understand it? Mayuan Zhang said, according to Hand, Foot and mouth disease onset, course and clinical features, as part of traditional Chinese medicine Febrile Diseases “warm disease”, “wet warm,” “epidemic” and other areas, the Department of positivism, hot card outside the Department of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease The disease-causing evil card. When the card Xiezheng with exogenous growth and decline of disease characteristics, is divided into Xiesheng early Xiesheng very period, recovery period is less evil. Based on course of disease, skin rashes, and systemic symptoms to identify the characteristics of growth and decline of Xie Zheng, general early Evils in the lung health, then evil and gas business and see the rash, and finally the evil to the reduction is more complex. Shufeng heat treatment method, Qingxin Xiehuo, Qingshu dampness, nourishing Yin to Reduce Pathogenic Fire and so on.
TCM treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease have an advantage, according to TCM theory, hand, foot and mouth disease is a febrile disease areas, caused by the hot and humid Immunotoxin, which, at present severe complications leading to death due to cases of EV71 infection occurs. TCM treatment of febrile disease known as the effectiveness of early intervention can prevent complications. According to Western theory, hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal virus, common childhood infectious diseases, Western medicine is currently not yet a vaccine or specific treatment. The Chinese medicine in the effect of anti-virus has been confirmed by modern medicine, and in the fight against SARS has played an important role. Therefore, Chinese medicine in the prevention and control has advantages of hand-foot disease, Chinese medicine practitioners involved in prevention and treatment sooner, the more effective prevention of Hand, Foot and mouth disease, hand foot and mouth disease to reduce complications and mortality, improve efficacy, but also reduce the patient’s medical expenses.
Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Medical University in the prevention and control of a hand, foot and mouth disease has taken many measures, the hospital set up a Children’s Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Prevention and Control Steering Committee of Experts, through Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin Institute of Professional Committee of Organization of pediatric medicine pediatrician at the city’s children to develop hand-foot – TCM-mouth disease prevention and control program. Through health education and promotion board, newspaper network, expert interviews and other forms, hand, foot and mouth disease in children’s knowledge of the missionary, to eliminate people’s fear and awareness of the disease and its prevention and control knowledge. According to children’s evidence, and deficiency of different constitution, drawn up appropriate preventive medication, so that early prevention, early detection, early treatment, to achieve the prevention and control sooner and eliminate the disease in the non-fat phase, to prevent complications.
In the application of traditional Chinese medicine to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, in addition to “wash hands, drink water, eat cooked food, diligence and ventilation, drying clothing” and other preventive measures, the public may Banlangen or honeysuckle, dandelion and other heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese medicine Jianshui, to Children take to prevent infection. Children’s hospital also in accordance with evidence, Deficiency of different constitution, drawn up appropriate preventive medication, can provide patients with choice. For a long mouth herpes, ulcers, bad breath smell children, available rugosa, Gypsum, wind, and light bamboo Jianshui drinking can be heart-clearing fire; Bingpeng San choice of cream or watermelon, beads of a yellow powder, blowing deposited oral surface of the skin 2 times a day, treat oropharyngeal herpes. If the child appears hand-foot-herpes, can be used outside the washing method was used to wild chrysanthemum, Lithospermum, Kochia scoparia, Sophora flavescens and other boiling, cooling to moderate hand-foot-soaking temperature in order to play heat, dampness and Cooling role. Before meals and after meals, or wash their hands with soap after the liquid, etc. to children wash their hands, do not let children drink unboiled water and eating cold food, avoid contact with sick children; caregivers with children prior to the replacement diapers for young children to deal with faeces have to wash their hands and properly handle the dirt; infants and young children to use baby bottles, pacifiers should be fully cleaned before and after use; during the prevalence of the disease should not take children to crowded, poorly ventilated public places, pay attention to maintaining household sanitation, indoor and often ventilation, ground drying clothing; children are related symptoms should be promptly to medical institutions for treatment. Home treatment of children, avoid contact with other children, parents must be promptly carried out on children’s clothing drying or disinfected, the disinfection of children with stool in a timely manner; mild in children with no hospitalization, appropriate home treatment, rest, in order to reduce cross-infection.
Individuals and families to use traditional Chinese medicine to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, in addition to adopt a “wash hands, drink water, eat cooked food, diligence and ventilation, drying clothing” and other preventive measures, preventive medicine may be appropriate where a child should be stressed that according to the different physical characteristics of different drugs. As customarily visible pharynx red, then dry, bad breath and other symptoms, substantiated child physical certificates are advised to take Yin-hua, forsythia, etc. in order to Daqingye Qingrejiedu; alter-ego, easy to cold, common sweating, bowel symptoms such as amorphous, is a physical deficiency children can take barley, puerarin, Banlangen so as to transport heat spleen.
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