Hand foot and mouth disease is a kind of multiple disease in spring, especially for the baby, the onset is sudden, and it is very easy to infect. For families with small babies, we should pay special attention to it, but we should not panic too much. In fact, as long as we take good care of it, we can recover soon.
How to identify HFMD?
Generally speaking, parents can also identify HFMD through some simple methods.
Touch: the most typical symptoms of HFMD are moderate fever (body temperature is about 38 ℃), and then sore throat, drooling and refeeding. In the high epidemic season, parents should touch their children's forehead and body to see if they have a fever.
Take a look: when checking the oral cavity, check whether there are multiple herpes on the pharyngeal mucosa, whether there are papules or herpes on the distal part of the hands and feet, generally the size of rice or mung bean, round or oval, with red halo around, without obvious itching. Some children around the anus will also appear a similar rash like rash.
How should baby get hand foot mouth disease to nurse
1. For children with mild disease
More than 98% of the children are in mild condition. The treatment principle is mainly symptomatic treatment. If the temperature is higher, the fever will be reduced, some energy will be infused to maintain the physical needs of the children, and vitamin B, C and antiviral drugs will be taken. Generally, simple treatment is enough.
Specifically, parents can do this in nursing:
(1) Isolation: when the baby is suffering from HFMD, isolate the baby to avoid cross infection. At the same time, boil the baby's daily necessities or expose them to the sun for disinfection.
(2) Keep the environment clean: keep the home environment comfortable, ensure the air circulation, keep the clothes and bedding clean, and change them frequently. Daily use of lactic acid fumigation for air disinfection.
(3) Light diet: feed your baby warm water, or some digestible, liquid food, avoid eating cold, spicy and other stimulating food, and do not give your baby acid drinks containing fruit juice.
(4) Oral care: keep baby's mouth clean and prevent secondary bacterial infection. Baby can gargle with warm water after meal, and apply aureomycin and cod liver oil when oral erosion occurs.
(5) Drug treatment: parents can gargle their baby with salt water, or apply drugs (such as acetaminophen and paracetamol) on the sore surface of the baby after consulting a doctor.
(6) Antipyretic: take your baby's temperature. If your baby's temperature exceeds 38.5 ℃, use physical cooling method (warm water to wipe your body or take a bath). If you can't reduce your fever, you should take antipyretic drugs.
2. For children with severe illness
Critically ill children have higher body temperature and persistent high fever. More than 39 degrees, even if the child used some antipyretic. The temperature went down and back up quickly. There are children's spirit is particularly depressed, persistent high fever, loss of appetite, vomiting, coma, convulsions, easy to shock, especially easy to shock, surprise, such a condition is obviously aggravated, more serious limbs skin cold, hair flower, microcirculation is very poor, this time will appear pulmonary edema, and finally lead to death.
The treatment of severe children is not the same, and the drugs used are not the same. The most active method is hormone, which can reduce brain edema and systemic inflammatory reaction in children. Some people worry about whether hormone can cause osteonecrosis and aggravation of the disease. Others say that hormone can cause obesity. Hormone is actually a better medicine, but it must be used correctly.