Symptoms of early hand foot mouth disease

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In recent years, more and more people begin to pay attention to HFMD, because now HFMD is more and more common. In 2008, there was a large-scale HFMD epidemic. HFMD is an infectious disease of children, which usually occurs in children under five years old. After summer, there is a high incidence of HFMD. Enterovirus can easily invade our bodies and cause HFMD. What are the early symptoms of HFMD?

Symptoms of early hand foot mouth disease

If the child's symptoms are more serious, it will develop very quickly. Around five days after the onset of the disease, there will be complications such as encephalitis, meningitis, myocarditis, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, and even death due to critical illness. Severe children will appear limb agitation, coma, eye movement disorders.

If the child's symptoms are relatively mild, there will be no fever, but some symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection, and some reactions of nausea and vomiting. After two days of fever, there will be a rash, generally in the buttocks and hands and feet. Most children's temperature will drop within a week, and the rash will subside, and the disease will recover.

When children are infected with enterovirus, they will have symptoms of elevated temperature. Most of them start with fever. Generally, they will continue to have fever for about three days. They will also have symptoms of runny nose, headache and cough. On the second day of fever, our children will have herpes in their mouth.

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The incidence rate of enterovirus infection, which is hand foot mouth disease, is mainly children before school age. Especially for children under three years old, the incidence rate is very high. Some adults also have hand foot mouth disease. But adults have stronger resistance, so they usually do not have symptoms.