According to the news, herpangina is a high-risk infectious disease recently. Many Baoma leave a message saying that their babies have been recruited, and some kindergartens even suspend classes to avoid the disease. This disease is more difficult to resist than HFMD, so parents should be very careful.
The news that "don't kiss your child's mouth and hand" is the consensus of parents who have experienced HFMD. But "please don't breathe in front of your child, cool your child's food, and don't blow it cool" is a bit shocking. Is the disease so severe that even adults can't breathe in front of your child? And if you get herpetic pharyngitis, you will have a high fever of 40 ℃, even fatal?
Now, let's take a closer look at herpetic buccal pharyngitis in children
Herpetic pharyngitis in children is caused by enterovirus (mainly Coxsackie virus). It is an acute infectious disease like hand foot mouth disease. It is common in summer. The high incidence period is April to July. Children under 5 years old are the high incidence group.
1、 What symptom does infantile herpangina have mainly?
Fever, anorexia, drooling: if the child suddenly has a high fever, the temperature suddenly jumps to 39-41 ℃ within 24-28 hours, accompanied by sore throat, drooling, anorexia symptoms, and some children also have vomiting or even convulsions, then parents should pay attention to it.
Herpes, ulcer: children fever 1-2 days, throat will appear gray white herpes, and then burst open to form ulcers, purulent leukoplakia.
Except for the throat. Soft palate, tongue and other oral ministry also can appear these herpes, ulcer. Because these diseases are very painful, children will feel pain in the mouth, unwilling to eat, and then vomiting, anorexia.
Although the symptoms of HFMD are similar to herpangina, the herpes and ulcer of herpangina only appear in the pharyngeal cheek. Once the child has herpes in the hands and feet, parents should pay attention to whether they have HFMD.
2、 Prevention of herpangina in children
Children's herpetic pharyngitis is highly infectious, and some kindergartens are closed. In fact, from the name of the disease, it can be seen that the disease is mainly spread among children, and the probability of infection caused by adults kissing children is very small. Even so, parents can't relax and don't kiss their children's hands or mouth. 99% of adults carry herpes virus, which lurks in salivary glands. Children's immune ability is weak, once the herpes virus through the kiss into the child's body, it is likely to cause harm to the child.
The news from the circle of friends that "don't breathe at the children, don't try to cool the children's food" is exaggerated, but it's not unreasonable. Breathing, blowing cold food will accidentally spit out, causing the child to get sick.
There is no vaccine for herpangina in children, so prevention is the main method.
First of all, we should maintain good health habits, hand washing can effectively prevent this disease. Children should form the good habit of washing their hands before eating, after defecating and entering the door. Children's daily necessities, toys, moving warehouse, including tableware should be cleaned and disinfected in time.
Secondly, in the period of high incidence of diseases, do not take children to places with dense population, poor air mobility and many children. The more children there are, the more likely they are to come into contact with them, and the more likely they are to cross infect.
3、 Treatment of herpangina in children
Herpetic buccal pharyngitis in children is a self limited disease, the vast majority of symptomatic treatment can be cured in 1-2 weeks, but the child in this process because of ulcer pain difficult to drink, eat, very painful, so it is a headache, parents need not be too nervous. What should parents do if their children are found to have the disease?
First of all, it is necessary to let children rest at home, reduce fever, and stop going to kindergarten; if there is more than one child in the family, it should be well isolated.
The second is the physical cooling of children. Because herpetic buccal pharyngitis is characterized by high fever, parents need to cool their children physically, such as warm wet compress, warm bath, less clothing and so on. Once the child's temperature exceeds 39 ℃, the child should be given antipyretic drugs to prevent febrile convulsions.
The second is to replenish water. Children with high temperature need to replenish water in time to prevent dehydration. But sore throat, most children will refuse to drink water, eat, so to give children choose liquid food, such as milk, porridge, etc., a small number of times to feed children to drink cold boiled.
If the child has a high fever for more than 48 hours, dyspnea, frequent vomiting, convulsions, weakness or drowsiness, parents should take the child to the doctor in time.