To prevent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease at home
Posted on October 28, 2009Filed Under Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease Prevention | Leave a Comment
Some parents asked a lot about hand, foot and mouth disease problem. We ask the Centers for Disease Control, Zhejiang, control of infectious diseases, deputy director of the Cai Liang-to answer —
The main clinical manifestations of HFMD What is this?
A: The vast majority of hand, foot and mouth disease for the general case were as follows: acute onset, fever, oral mucosa appeared herpes, hands, feet and buttocks, a rash, herpes, herpes around the flush, less fluid in blisters. Accompanied by cough, runny nose, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Some patients showed only a herpes rash or inflammation of the pharynx cheek.
Prevention of Hand, Foot and mouth disease, how to do this at home?
A: before meals and after meals returning wash their hands with soap or hand sanitizer, do not let children drink unboiled water and eating contaminated food; parents with children prior to or replacement of diapers, wash hands thoroughly after handling feces; infants and young children bottle, nipple promptly cleaned before and after use; in hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic periods, should not bring children to the crowd gathered in public places with poor ventilation, room ventilation and often, diligence and drying clothing.
Family disinfection methods are: eating utensils, drinking disinfected with boiling for 20 minutes; towels, handkerchiefs boiling for 20 minutes disinfection; life of appliances, toys, furniture, books and other disinfection: The disinfectant wipe, or sun exposure.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease is the chlorine used to disinfect disinfectant disinfectants, will be able to buy at the supermarket.
Hand, Foot and mouth disease rash
Rash and other what not to like?
A: The main symptoms of HFMD in the hand, foot size of the blisters grow soybeans, hemisphere-shaped, thin-wall bubble, which clarified that showed a white bead. Mouth on the palate, cheek, gums and tongue painful small blisters appear, and soon ulcers, surrounded by flush.
General chickenpox blisters appear in the palm of your hand, foot and hand, foot and mouth disease blisters difficult distinction, but the chickenpox patients with scalp, face, limbs, there are blisters; papular urticaria more common in infants and children, most of the morbidity related with insect bites, insect after the bite blisters, papules and wind groups, distributed in the backs and chests and limbs, there is intense itching.
How to take care of at home, hand, foot and mouth disease in children
A: According to the Ministry of Health, “Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Control and Prevention Guide (2008 edition)”, mild in children with no hospitalization, appropriate home treatment, rest, in order to reduce cross-infection.
Children should stay in bed for a week, multi-drink warm water; parents can not be due to mild symptoms in children with sending schools, nurseries and kindergartens; usually try to let children stay at home, avoid crowded public places or close contact with the healthy children; until the fever, rash and blisters scab dissipated, it generally takes isolated 2 weeks.
Children may be due to fever, oral herpes, unwilling to eat, so diet should be light, tasty, digestible, oral erosion when there is some liquid food to eat. Fasting cold, spicy, salty and spicy food and so on. Gargle with warm water for each meal, oral Tu cod liver oil when there is erosion in order to alleviate pain, promote healing of erosion at an early date.
Children with clothing, bedding should be clean, large clothes, soft, often to be replaced; clipped nails in children, if necessary, children with both hands wrapped to prevent the scratch skin rash; buttocks rash of babies, children clean up the toilet at any time to maintain the hip clean dry; herpes partial rupture of 1% gentian violet can be rubbed or antibiotic ointment; children with hand, foot and mouth disease is generally low heat or medium degree of heat, allowing more children with drinking water, no special treatment, such as a temperature over 38.5 ℃, the doctor’s advice Next taking antipyretic; nausea, vomiting, irritability, fever, mental status changes, lethargy, anorexia, etc., you should promptly go to hospital for treatment.
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