Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease is not a terminal illness
Posted on November 3, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Treatment | Leave a Comment
Heze, Shandong region this spring, hand, foot and mouth disease-prone children, due to the rise in deaths and many parents a hand, foot and mouth disease to mention the panic, in fact, with the expert knowledge into a comprehensive prevention and treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease can be rest assured that after the, hand, foot and mouth disease in the medical development today is preventable and treatable. To put a scientific point of view from a comprehensive analysis to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease has Qilu Network Health Channel special invitation of the Jinan Central Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine, director of Xingchun Yan, deputy director of Physicians for everyone to talk about from a medical point of view to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Learn
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal virus, common infectious diseases, infant and child morbidity in the main. Most patients had mild symptoms, fever and hand, foot, mouth and other parts of the rash or herpes as the main feature. 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 to die. Infected children and adults do not take the disease, but can spread the virus. Hand, Foot and mouth disease caused by enteroviruses, including enterovirus 71 (EV71), and group A Coxsackie virus (CoxA), echovirus (Echo) some of the serotypes. EV71 infection caused by a larger proportion of severe cases. Infectious intestinal virus, easy to cause an outbreak or epidemic.
The face of a child the parents how to do hand, foot and mouth disease?
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease, and now our country are all included in Class C infectious disease, this time as a parent should do is not an unusual attention to a number, let the children develop a good health habits, washing hands frequently, the other is to achieve ventilation, there is little they take their children to public space, especially in places where populations are relatively concentrated, while attention to his indoor disinfection, indoor laundry diligence to increase children’s resistance to allow the child a reasonable diet, pay attention to Rest, do not fatigue.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease to treat the symptoms of the earliest
Xing Chunyan Director mentioned that the major is a multi-hand, foot and mouth disease occurred in children, especially children under the age of three relatively low resistance, the early performance of a child may be the spirit of good, fever, sore throat, which is similar to the flu early symptoms, if there is such a situation when the parents have to pay attention to, and we should observe the child’s condition changes, a few days should pay attention to his hand and ah, feet ah, there is no inside mouth herpes, ulcers, such a situation.
If parents discover their children have the early symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease, it is necessary and timely to the specialized hospital treatment, because the hand, foot and mouth disease disease, such as viral infection in general, there is a certain degree of self-limiting, the initial self treatment at home, if noticed that the child there are some bad spirit, the symptoms of nausea or a difficulty in breathing, palpitation when to go to the hospital treatment. To take symptomatic treatment in specialist hospitals, daily to give the child the water, if necessary to take some more medicine administration agent, if the disease is fairly prevalent circumstances, the need for guardianship may be need to stay in hospital for observation.
Kids got hand, foot and mouth disease do so dire, this disease is a very high mortality disease?
Xing Chunyan Director noted that the incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease is very high, because many of its routes of transmission, spread of diseases like respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract, and some discharge this is the incidence rate is relatively high, but generally most likely to is under control, he can. There is generally a week or so may have their own on the restoration, that is, there are very few serious complications may occur when the case of death.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease is not a terminal illness can be self-healing
Children themselves can be resistant in the past, indicating the disease is not an incurable disease may be among the most children in the course of treatment, or he can heal, as long as no complications. Hand, Foot and mouth disease if not treated early, could be a complication occurs, that is, their relatively low resistance, and if further delay some of it may lead to the emergence of a number of complications, the complications of the disease such as encephalitis, meningitis, ah, even the complications of acute pulmonary edema would lead to death.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease in the early detection of symptoms when the parents to take timely measures to enable the child even if the prevention, fight for their own healing, thereby reducing complications. Because the general recovery rate of children is relatively high.
Personal precautions
1. 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;
2. Caregivers with children prior to the replacement diapers for young children, have to wash their hands after handling feces and properly handle the dirt;
3. Infants using baby bottles, pacifiers should be fully cleaned before and after use;
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. And mouth disease transmission and more should be treated first to prevent, susceptible infants and children generally do a good job of the individual child, families and nurseries in health is the key to prevention of infection in this disease;
Six 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.
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