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What are the common symptoms of HFMD? How to prevent HFMD in spring?

Every year, spring is the season of high incidence of HFMD. Although spring is the season of growth of all things, it is also the season of relatively rampant bacterial activities. For families with small children, special attention must be paid to prevent the invasion of HFMD. So how to prevent HFMD in spring? What are the early symptoms of HFMD?

The prevalence of HFMD is not regional. It may occur in all seasons of the year. HFMD is more common in spring and summer. Children aged one to five are more common.

Hand, foot and mouth, it is easy to see that there are ulcers in the mouth, blisters on the palm side of hand, foot and fingertip. Blisters are long and not easy to break. In addition to the skin manifestations, serious children will have cold and fever, and then serious, even can cause encephalitis, myocarditis, pneumonia.

Three characteristics of HFMD

Love to attack infants

The main target of HFMD virus attack is children under 5 years old, especially children aged 1-2 years old. After infected with the disease, children will generally continue to have fever, lasting for 2 to 7 days. The higher the body temperature, the longer the duration, the more serious the condition. Accompanied by corner of mouth pain, sore throat, drooling and other symptoms, do not like to eat. After a few days, there will be a rash on the hands, feet, mouth, buttocks and other parts.

It can be transmitted by many ways

Hand, foot and mouth disease is easy to infect. The virus mainly enters the intestine through the mouth. The infectious media can be food, water, saliva, air, dirty hands, toys, etc. In addition, children like to lick their hands, like to taste this and touch that, or talk face to face, so a sneeze between children may also be infected.

The virus will invade the heart, brain, kidney and other important organs

To strengthen the care of patients, such as the occurrence of high fever, the increase of leukocyte with unknown causes and no other causes of infection, we should be alert to the occurrence of fulminant myocarditis.

Prevention measures of hand foot mouth disease

At present, the attack in advance of the peak of HFMD has caught many parents by surprise and made many parents start to be vigilant. In fact, HFMD is not as terrible as the parents think. As long as daily prevention is done well, when there is a suspected disease, timely treatment in the hospital can prevent the occurrence of serious disease.

Although there is no vaccine for HFMD in children at present, it is still preventable, controllable and curable. Here are some suggestions for preventive measures:

1. Try to keep children away from crowded public places. Because these crowded, poorly ventilated places, children's body resistance is poor, easy to be infected by the virus in the crowd. In the learning environment, such as kindergarten, where there are many children, pay attention to ventilation, and suggest that schools can turn on ultraviolet light for disinfection.

2. Wash hands before and after meals, disinfect tableware, toys and other articles in time, and prevent diseases from entering from the mouth, especially for children who love to nibble nails.

3. The family room should be ventilated frequently, and the family environment, food and personal hygiene should be done well, and children's clothes should be often dried in the sun.

4. Drink more water, pay attention to the nutrition and rest of infants, properly strengthen outdoor exercise and improve immunity.

5. Adults should pay special attention to their own health so as not to pass on the virus infected outside to their children.

6. Parents and kindergartens should do a good job in disinfection of toys, utensils and activity places to reduce indirect contact and transmission.

7. Parents should check the baby in the morning, at noon and in the evening. They should pay special attention to observe whether there are these rashes on the baby's mouth, palm, foot and buttock. If they find these symptoms, they should send them to the hospital in time.

Prevention of children under 5 years old

Hand foot mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease caused by enterovirus. It mostly occurs in children under 5 years old. In spring, the incidence of HFMD increases gradually. When the disease occurs, children's HFMD will have obvious symptoms. Therefore, according to the epidemic characteristics of HFMD, HFMD will still be an important infectious disease threatening children under 5 years old, and also one of the infectious diseases we need to focus on prevention and control.

In addition, because the clinical manifestations of HFMD in the early stage are similar to the common cold and fever, many parents mistakenly think it is the common cold and fever.

If the child under 5 years old has fever, rash and other symptoms, the baby may have hand, foot and mouth disease. At this time, parents should see a doctor immediately without delay.