Do not let the hand, foot and mouth disease incursions
Posted on October 14, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention | Leave a Comment
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is in the rising period
Against the hand, foot and mouth disease struck again, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention deputy director Yang said that from this year’s situation, the national laboratory-confirmed cases in the EV71 accounted for 75%. In addition, the epidemic is mainly hazards infants and young children, 5 years of age accounted for nearly 94%, up to 3 years of age. From the deaths of view, mainly the small age group.
Guangzhou, more than four children under the age of Qi Cheng
According to CDC, director of Guangzhou Rosanna introduced “from the beginning by the end of February, the number of patients increased significantly, which found infected with EV71 virus in about two as a ratio of less than 75% of the country, we have statistics, the sick 76.18% of children under the age of four. “He said from now until May will be a period of high incidence of the disease, the number of patients will be increasing each month.
Interpretation of the term —
Hand, Foot and mouth disease (Hand-foot-mouth disease, HFMD): intestinal infection caused by the clinical syndrome with diverse clinical features, clinical manifestations most cases mild fever and hand, foot, mouth and other parts of the rash or herpes as the main feature. A small number of cases of respiratory, central nervous system damage, causing encephalitis, myocarditis, pulmonary edema, acute flaccid paralysis and other symptoms, individual children with severe illness with rapid, leading to death. Cause hand, foot and mouth disease there are more than 20 kinds of enterovirus, including Coxsackie virus A group, such as enterovirus 71.
How to find Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease?
How to discover whether the child had been infected with hand, foot and mouth disease? Please bear in mind the knowledge of three “four” —
Four parts: The main violations of hand, foot, mouth, buttocks.
Four features: No pain, no itching, no scab, no scars.
Nothing on earth: rash like mosquito bites, unlike the rash of drugs, unlike the gums, lips herpes, unlike chickenpox.
Chickenpox – showed concentric distribution to head, face, chest, back the main, and then spread to the limbs;
Herpes pharyngitis – throat from herpes, but the blister, such as eye of a needle size to the buccal pharynx, soft palate, tonsils more common, fever above 38 ℃ often, other parts of the herpes does not appear;
Herpes simplex – are located in the buccal mucosa, tongue and gums, secondary infection is common in the lips, eyelids, nose and weeks, in order to miliary blisters, no other parts of the skin lesions.
Tip: children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease, the general palms, Zu Xin, oral mucosa, perianal area occur such as skin rash, skin rash red color is purple, a small number of children affected limbs and buttocks, trunk rarely.
In general, hand, foot and mouth disease of oral mucosa rash appears earlier, initially for the corn-like maculopapular rash or blisters surrounded by flush, tongue and cheeks are mainly located in the Department of lateral lips and teeth are also common. The resulting pain, often makes children with drooling, or refuse to eat.
How to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease?
Kindergarten chapter:
Hand, Foot and mouth disease primarily among people in close contact with the spread of throat secretions and saliva of patients with the virus, you can form droplets through a new susceptible respiratory tract infections; saliva, herpes fluid, stool handling or with the virus may be contaminated towels, handkerchiefs, toys, utensils, milk with as well as bedding, underwear and so on, through oral transmission to others; living together in a room with the patient vulnerable to infection; drinking water contamination with the virus can also be infected with hand, foot and mouth disease.
In the face of all the transmission source, has a child in kindergarten moms and dads have to worry about, “will become the nursery of infection in hand, foot and mouth disease?” For hand, foot and mouth disease mode of transmission, children’s gathering places, such as the kindergartens, primary schools and other public places should take preventive measures and contingency measures.
Preventive measures —
1, examine morning newly undertaken work, (preferably a high-fat can increase one afternoon during the inspection) if there are children who show symptoms suspected should be isolated immediately and notify the parents brought for medical treatment;
2, regular classrooms, desks and chairs, toys, diversification disinfection; such as spraying disinfectant, sunlight exposure and so on.
3 to develop the children routinely wash their hands and other hygiene practices, wash hands before meals and after.
Emergency measures —
1, if there is suspected patients should be isolated immediately notify the parents to take to send patient treatment, the measures at home to rest
2, pairs of items used by children should be immediately disinfected; and focused on observation of children often come into contact with other children.
Parents:
1. Infants using baby bottles, pacifiers should be fully cleaned before and after use;
2. Adults in contact with children prior to the replacement diapers for young children, have to wash their hands after handling feces and properly handle the dirt;
3. 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;
4. During the prevalence of the disease should not take children to the crowd gathered in public places with poor air circulation to keep the household sanitation, indoor and often ventilation, ground drying clothing;
5. Child-related symptoms appear to be in time 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.
How to treat Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease?
Such diseases are no more effective treatment, but can take the following measures:
1. Taking anti-viral drugs, such as ribavirin, the virus Ling, etc.;
2. Can be given orally some B vitamins, such as vitamin B2, etc.;
3. Local aureomycin cod liver oil can be painted in order to alleviate pain, promote healing of erosive surface;
4. Maintaining local clean to avoid secondary bacterial infections;
Western medicine is currently not yet a vaccine or specific treatment, the above is a more common treatment in several ways. According to participation “in the province of Guangdong Hand, Foot and mouth disease prevention and treatment of clinical medicine technology program” to develop the work of an expert presentations, hand, foot and mouth disease belongs to Chinese medicine theory, where “warm” disease category, known as hot and humid Immunotoxin, while the traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of febrile disease known results. Here are three traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods —
Therapy 1: You can honeysuckle, capillaris, raw Adlay, Daqingye (ie Banlangen leaves), licorice, etc. into the water, boil for 20 minutes after the pour, when the tea use, 35 days course of treatment that is be.
Tip: physically weak, easy to diarrhea in children do not drink.
Therapy 2: For a long mouth herpes, ulcers, bad breath smell child, in addition to the above prescription, the can also be used Dengxin flowers, rugosa, Gypsum, wind, and light bamboo Jianshui drinking can be heart-clearing fire.
Tip: loss of appetite in the side yard of a child can increase the malt, to help appetizer.
Therapy 3: 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 so boil, cool to moderate hand-foot-soaking temperature in order to serve heat, dampness and Cooling role.
Day care is essential
Whether Chinese or Western medicine, who already infected with hand, foot and mouth disease in children, parents should do the following in order to better adjuvant therapy.
1, washed with warm water from time to time so that children mouth cavity;
2, digestible diet, eat some light, soft, warm meals, drink warm water;
3, fasting cold or spicy foods, do not give salty, so as not to cause pain antifeedant;
4 to ensure that children have enough rest to keep children clean clothing to avoid skin rash infection.
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