Early as possible to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Posted on October 23, 2009
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★ Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease is currently no vaccine. The key to prevent Hand, Foot and mouth disease is usually to develop good hygiene practices.

★ period of high incidence of the disease, parents should enhance children’s nutrition and enhance their immunity.

★ supervise their children develop hand-washing before meals, will be back, do not drink unboiled water, do not eat cold and not a net food habits.

★ Parents should also be children’s tableware, toys and other supplies and timely disinfection, prevention of disease from the mouth.

★ best to avoid letting their children to crowded public places to prevent children and children with close contact.

★ Parents should also note that children’s rest, to avoid sunlight exposure, reduced resistance to prevent fatigue.

If the illness, how to care for

★ baby should stay at home after illness, until the fever, rash and blisters scab dissipated. Separation normally takes 2 weeks.

★ children used toys, utensils or other items should be thoroughly disinfected. Commonly used chlorine disinfectant soaking and boiling disinfection. Should not be cooked or soaked items to be placed in sunlight exposure. Faeces of children with chlorine disinfectants subject to 2 hours after dumping.

★ children should be fresh air inside the room, the temperature suitable for regular window ventilation, air disinfection daily. Staff room should be avoided too much, smoke to prevent the air foul, and secondary infection.

★ children should stay in bed for a week, multi-drink warm water. Children with fever, oral herpes, appetite poor, unwilling to eat. Food should light, tasty, digestible, oral erosion can eat liquid food. Fasting cold, spicy, salty and spicy food and so on.

★ oral hygiene should be maintained to prevent secondary bacterial infection, gargle with warm water for each meal. When there is erosion of oral aureomycin Tu, cod liver oil in order to alleviate pain, promote healing of erosion at an early date.

★ children with clothing, bedding should be clean. Clothing should be large, soft, often change. Beds should be dried flat. Children cropped nails, if necessary, children wrapped their hands to prevent the scratch rash.

★ buttocks rash of babies, children should always clean the toilet, keep the buttocks clean and dry.

★ herpes rupture, partial erasure 1% gentian violet can be, or antibiotic ointment.

★ Hand, Foot and mouth disease is generally low heat or medium-degree heat, no special treatment, will allow children the water. Such as the temperature higher than 38.5 ℃, can be under the guidance of a doctor taking antipyretic.

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