Hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control, how much you “mistakenly”?
Posted on November 7, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention, Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Treatment | Leave a Comment
Severe epidemic situation, people can not be taken lightly, many people, especially parents of young children at home, have taken various measures to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease attacks. However, the popularization of knowledge related to prevention and control to varying degrees, quite some people on the hand, foot and mouth disease was quite one-sided, in the prevention and control measures have also been lacking. Disease control experts, to remind the public beware of the following five common errors to avoid hand, foot and mouth disease behind them will take.
Myth # 1 – Children will have to hand, foot and mouth disease, adult does not infect.
This is one of the most common misunderstanding. Health, disease control experts pointed out that 863 network, as found in clinical patients with hand, foot and mouth for the vast majority of young children, the relevant medical institutions and the media focused on the universal child prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease prevention and control measures, so let a lot of people misunderstand that only children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease only, but in fact can be infected with disease in all age groups.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is generally high school age, including 5 years of age, especially children under the age of three of the most susceptible to the disease. As adults, the immune system better, it seldom infection, but it does not mean adults will not be infected. It is noteworthy that the clinical findings of adult infections due to a stronger immune system, mostly for latent infection, both the incidence of infection is neither, nor any symptoms. But this is not easy although the incidence of latent infection, but still carry the bacteria will spread the virus. Considerable portion of children by adults is infected. Therefore, adults should also attach great importance to the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease, and guard against infection while also avoiding itself into a source of infection.
Misunderstanding 2 – hand, foot and mouth disease through the hands, mouth contact, not through the air.
Many people believe that as long as the strengthening of hand and mouth clean, non-hand contact with unclean things, do not eat unclean food and water, will be able to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, but this is not enough. Hand, Foot and mouth disease mainly through close contact between people to spread, in addition to hand, mouth can cause infection by direct contact, indirect contact can also cause respiratory tract infections.
Experts remind that, hand, foot and mouth disease virus may be in patients with throat secretions and saliva spread in the air, meaning that patients speak or cough, droplets produced by sneezing and dangerous source of infection. Therefore, timely diagnosis in patients with isolated to avoid infecting others. Individuals should also avoid close contact with patients and less to the crowd, that are poorly ventilated public places or in contact with the patient were more crowded, the air out of poor places, it can wear a mask to prevent.
Misunderstanding 3 – the virus spreads through the air, we now have air ventilation should not be frequent.
Some people do not know if the virus spreads through the air, it has been because they know the overkill. Because it is now at hand, foot and mouth disease in high season, some people fear that the virus ventilation blowing enter the house, and therefore refused to ground to open doors and windows, even doors and windows open ventilation, and time is very short.
In fact, ventilation and air permeability beneficial to human health, but also beneficial to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, reducing breathing frequency, but not good. Doors and windows closed, air can not flow, will provide a variety of bacteria breeding, the breeding ground, will also increase the risk of HFMD. Always open the window to keep the air circulation, both effective use of ultraviolet light to kill bacteria, but also to ensure adequate oxygen supply. Ventilation of the process, even if there are small amount of virus floating, will also be a lot of fresh air in the dilution will not impact on human health. Therefore, no matter the family, at places such as classrooms or dormitories to maintain good ventilation, conditional home or school, kindergarten can also be used every day when the lactic acid fumigation ventilation, for air disinfection.
Mistakes 4 – alcohol, Lysol water can eliminate hand, foot and mouth disease virus, the family should be standing to use.
In the current outbreak is more severe circumstances, many families have strengthened the sanitation work, many of them will be alcohol, Lysol to use water as a disinfectant. However, alcohol, Lysol water and can not effectively kill the hand, foot and mouth disease virus type of intestinal viruses, only the ultraviolet light, dry and high temperature (greater than 50 degrees Celsius), and a variety of oxidants (potassium permanganate, bleaching powder, etc.), formaldehyde, tincture of iodine in order to eliminate them.
Families can use the 84 disinfectant, bleach and other pairs of daily necessities, toys, diapers and other disinfection; right with milk, cutlery, etc. can be boiled disinfection; pairs of clothes, blankets can be drying, or cleaned and disinfected, but also can be irradiated with ultraviolet light disinfection; suffering infant faeces and other waste can be used 84 disinfectant bleach solution or disinfectant.
Misunderstanding 5 – hand, foot and mouth disease is very frightening, child mortality rate is higher after infection.
The current hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak has many parents worried, worried about their children’s health, more worried about their children’s lives, once a child suspected symptoms occur, they very tight. Experts said parents should be right hand, foot and mouth disease seriously enough, but need not be overly concerned about hand, foot and mouth disease hazards. Hand, Foot and mouth disease cases make more use of light mainly children without complications, with timely treatment, more than can be recovered within a week.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease The main symptoms are fever with hand, foot, mouth and other parts of rash or ulcers, and only individual patients can cause myocarditis, pulmonary edema, aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, meningitis and other fatal complications. 2008 Report of China’s total annual cases of hand, foot and mouth disease over more than 480,000 cases, of which accounted for 99.76% of light cases, accounting for 0.24% of severe cases, death cases accounted for 0.026%, the mortality rate of 0.0095/10 10000. Parents do early detection, early treatment, will greatly reduce the risk of children.
The experts advise, hand, foot and mouth disease prevention and control of a key addition to avoiding errors, but also because the importance of individual, family and environment sanitation. Individuals before meals and after meals, or wash their hands with soap after they wash their hands and timely solution, bearing in mind not to eat raw food, do not drink unboiled water; room ventilation should be maintained regularly, diligence and drying clothing, regular disinfection; usually a small to a large population in public places, contact with people maintain a certain distance; if there is fever, rash and other symptoms, do not take it lightly, it is timely treatment.
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