Recently in the period of communication in spring and summer, HFMD is the most frequent stage, so parents and friends must be careful. Children with HFMD may cause myocarditis, pulmonary edema, aseptic meningoencephalitis and other complications. So how can HFMD be transmitted? Can HFMD be transmitted to adults?
Mode of transmission of HFMD
1. Contact with the patient's skin.
2. Through the hands, towels, handkerchiefs and other items contaminated by the virus.
3. The patient's throat secretions (droplets) spread.
4. Drinking polluted water.
Can HFMD be transmitted to adults? Generally speaking, hand, foot and mouth disease is directly transmitted to children, and it will not be transmitted to adults.
Doctors say hand, foot and mouth disease can only be caused by children, because children's physique is relatively weak and their resistance is relatively small, and this is an infectious disease among children caused by enterovirus infection. Up to now, no adult has been infected, because the adult's immunity is relatively high.
The chance of HFMD infection is very big, but the chance of adults being infected can be said to be zero. The main way of HFMD transmission is close contact with people. For example, toys or milk utensils used by children when they are sick will cause infection. Adults should pay attention to this aspect.
If the physique is relatively weak, then it can also prevent hand, foot and mouth disease infection. In general, the virus in throat secretion and saliva of HFMD patients can be transmitted by air, so if a child has HFMD, it is better to have less close contact with him.
Patients with HFMD should pay attention to the skin cleaning in children's mouth at ordinary times. Adults should remember to clean their mouth with normal saline every day. Children should be prevented from scratching skin herpes to prevent crushing infection.
How to prevent hand foot mouth disease
1. Pay attention to observe the health status of the child. Once the child is found to have fever, rash and other symptoms, take the child to the regular hospital for medical treatment as soon as possible;
2. After going home from work, please change the clothes you wear when you go out and put them in a place that children are not easy to touch;
3. Wash hands, trim nails, change clothes and dry bedding frequently;
4. When preparing food for children, please wash the food thoroughly and heat it to boil;
5. Try not to eat leftovers for children, and do not expose cakes, biscuits and other foods to the air for a long time;
6. Pay attention to correct children's sucking fingers, picking their nostrils, biting toys and other bad small actions;
7. Pay attention to personal hygiene, take a bath and shampoo frequently, trim nails in time, and change personal home clothes;
8. Wash your hands thoroughly. It is better to wash your face at the same time, so as not to infect your child when kissing your cheek;
9. Keep children's toys clean;
10. Take children to public places with dense crowds as little as possible. In particular, try to avoid contact with other children with fever and rash diseases and reduce the chance of being infected.