Spring is the season of high incidence of hand foot mouth disease. Although spring is the season of growth of all things, it is also the season of rampant bacterial activity. For families with children, special attention must be paid to prevent the invasion of hand foot mouth disease. So how to prevent hand foot mouth disease in spring? Let's learn some knowledge with Xiaobian.
The epidemic of HFMD has no obvious regional characteristics. Hand foot mouth disease occurs frequently in spring and summer. One to five-year-old children are more common.
It's easy to see that there are ulcers in the mouth, blisters on the palms and fingertips of the hands and feet. Blisters are long and not easy to break. In addition to the performance of the skin, serious children will have a cold fever performance, and then serious, and even can cause encephalitis, myocarditis, pneumonia.
Three characteristics of hand foot mouth disease
Love to attack infants
The main targets of HFMD virus are children under 5 years old, especially infants aged 1-2 years old. Infected with the disease, the child will generally continue to fever, lasting 2 to 7 days. The higher the body temperature, the longer the duration, the more serious the disease. Accompanied by mouth pain, sore throat, drooling and other symptoms, do not like to eat. After a few days, rashes will appear on the hands, feet, mouth, buttocks and other parts.
It can be transmitted in many ways
HFMD is easy to infect. The virus mainly enters the intestines through the mouth. The transmission vectors can be food, water, saliva, air, dirty hands, toys, etc. In addition, children like to lick their hands, taste this and touch that, or talk face to face, so sneezing between children may also be infected.
The virus can invade the heart, brain, kidney and other important organs
To strengthen the care of patients, such as high fever, white blood cells increased for unknown reasons and can not find out other causes of infection, we should be alert to the occurrence of fulminant myocarditis.
Preventive measures of hand foot mouth disease
At present, the early attack of HFMD peak has caught many parents off guard, and also made many parents extremely vigilant. In fact, HFMD is not as terrible as parents think. As long as we do a good job in daily prevention and go to the hospital in time when suspected diseases appear, we can prevent the occurrence of severe cases.
Although there is no vaccine for HFMD in children, it is preventable, controllable and curable
1. Try to keep children out of 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 kindergartens where there are more children, pay attention to ventilation, and it is suggested that schools can turn on ultraviolet lamps for disinfection.
2. Wash hands before and after meals, disinfect tableware, toys and other supplies in time to prevent diseases from entering the mouth, especially for children who love to gnaw their nails.
3. The family room should be well ventilated, the family environment sanitation, food hygiene and personal hygiene should be well done, and the children's clothes should be often dried in the sun.
4. Drink more water, pay attention to infant nutrition, rest, strengthen outdoor exercise, improve immunity.
5. Adults should pay special attention to their own health, so as not to spread the virus from outside to 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, in the afternoon and in the evening. They should pay special attention to whether there are rashes on the baby's mouth, palm, feet and buttocks. If these symptoms are found, they should be sent to the hospital in time.
Focus on prevention for babies under 5 years old
Hand foot mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by enterovirus. It occurs mostly in children under 5 years old. It enters into the spring, and the incidence rate of this disease increases gradually. When the disease occurs, children will have obvious symptoms on their hands, feet and mouth. Therefore, according to the epidemic characteristics of HFMD, HFMD will still be an important infectious disease threatening children under 5 years old, and it is also one of the infectious diseases that we need to focus on prevention and control.
In addition, because the clinical manifestations of HFMD in the early stage are similar to common cold and fever, many parents mistakenly think it is common cold and fever.
If a child under 5 years old has fever, rash and other symptoms, the baby may have hand foot mouth disease. At this time, the parents should send the doctor immediately without delay.