How to prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease strikes again
Posted on October 21, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention | Leave a Comment
More recently, emerging across the country hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic, so a lot of his mother’s panic. What is this disease, how much harm on the baby? How to prevent it?
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Prevention & Governance
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease is a highly infectious disease. Expert analysis, hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak in China are increasing, 5 July peak incidence rate may be.
This is a highly contagious disease that
Hand, Foot and mouth disease occur throughout the year, to 6,7 for multi-month. Transmitted through the digestive tract and respiratory tract, and can lead to the family disease, but also can cause localized outbreak.
Baby is susceptible to an object
Hand, Foot and mouth disease occur in the 4 to 5-year-old baby to 3 years of age up to age, younger, more severe disease.
When the baby showed incidence of slight fever, runny nose, loss of appetite, can easily be misjudged as a “cold”, but oral pain is a prominent symptom. In addition, vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
Observe the baby’s mouth, you will see some small oral herpes, are located in the tongue, buccal mucosa, palate, herpes ulceration become ulcers. Hand-foot skin rash at the same time there are more in the back of the hand, fingers, occasionally on the trunk, thighs, buttocks, upper arm.
Is self-limited disease
Baby suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, the total would be worried about the impact on intellectual growth and development, in fact, the disease prognosis is usually good, most of them can be self-healing, but recurrence of a small number of babies may be complicated by aseptic meningitis, myocarditis and other diseases .
Families how to prevent
Hand, Foot and mouth disease by a variety of viruses, there is no vaccine can be automatically immune.
Hygiene is the key
No matter what kind of gastro-intestinal and respiratory diseases, prevention is always the main measures to achieve family and sanitation, education, baby before meals and after meals, after washing hands with soap or hand sanitizer, do not drink unboiled water, do not eat cold food; Baby Mama exposure prior to or replacement for the baby diapers, wash their hands promptly after handling feces.
Maintain the indoor air circulation
Often to the baby’s room for ventilation, as little as possible with your baby to crowded public places to avoid with other fever, rash diseases, baby contact, reduce the chance of infection.
Enhance the baby’s physical
Any kind of human viruses, are resistant to fall in the body take advantage of, so Mom usually baby nutrition, you should ensure that a reasonable match, but also let your baby rest, adequate sun and enhance their immunity.
Care is a fundamental treatment of
Baby is suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease must be isolated at home. Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease is no special treatment, drug abuse, meaningless, therefore, primarily rely on a good period of home care to get through the disease.
Doing the work of disinfection and isolation
Separation normally takes 2 weeks. Used for baby toys, utensils or other supplies thorough disinfection treatments, such as disinfection with chlorine or boiling liquid immersion disinfection. Should not be cooked or soaked items can be placed under the sun exposure. Baby’s stool to go through disinfectants Discard after two hours.
To maintain oral hygiene
Oral disease is an important manifestation of the disease, so as far as possible to keep baby’s oral hygiene, prevention of bacterial secondary infection. Each meal with hot water or dilute brine to the baby’s mouth, oral erosion at Tu-point aureomycin, cod liver oil in order to alleviate pain, promote healing of erosion at an early date.
Skin Care Points
A rash baby’s clothing should be clean, loose clothing and soft. If necessary, wrap your baby’s hands and prevent him from scratch a rash.
Buttocks rash baby needs to be kept clean urine to keep the buttocks clean and dry.
Drink plenty of water fever
Hand, Foot and mouth disease in babies often accompanied by low-grade fever or moderate fever, which does not require the use of any drugs, just the water. When the temperature higher than 38 ℃, it can under the guidance of a doctor the appropriate use of antipyretics.
Diet with liquid food is appropriate
Baby due to oral pain, less willing to eat, in addition to patient and encourage him to eat, but also in the diet on the arrangements for liquid or semi-liquid food-based.
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