What symptom does adult throat herpes have?

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Adults will also suffer from herpangina. If we suffer from herpangina, we will feel very uncomfortable in our throat, unable to eat, and even painful after drinking water. Therefore, the main treatment is to take medicine after suffering from herpangina. If the situation is serious, we even need to go to the hospital for infusion treatment, The situation can alleviate apparently, so what symptom does adult throat herpes have? Let's talk about it

What symptom does adult throat herpes have?

First, it is more common in children aged 3-10 years old, especially in summer and autumn. The same patient can be caused by different types of viruses for many times, with an incubation period of 3-10 days, most of which begin with sudden high fever, reaching the peak in 24-48 hours, rising to 39-41 ℃, accompanied by headache, pharyngeal discomfort, myalgia, etc. infants often have vomiting, refeeding, and even febrile convulsions; Severe pharyngeal pain, dysphagia, limb myalgia, anorexia, etc. are common in older children and adults. After 4-5 days, small gray papules appear in the pharynx, which develop into blisters and ulcers within 24 hours. The lesions are surrounded by 1-5 mm red halo. The lesions often appear in the anterior column of tonsil, the margin of soft palate and the palatal lobe. The ulcers heal within 1-5 days, and the symptoms disappear within 3 days, The prognosis is good.

Second: acute lymphocytic angina is a variant herpangina caused by coxsackievirus type a10. It has the same damage as typical angina, but it does not progress to blisters and ulcers. It only has gray white papules formed by lymphocyte infiltration, surrounded by a red halo.

Third: the disease has an epidemic trend and is common in infants. Its clinical features are sudden high fever with sore throat, headache, anorexia, and often pain in neck, abdomen and limbs. Vomiting and convulsion often occur in infants. Within 2 days after onset, a few (rarely more than 12) small (1-2mm in diameter) gray white herpes appear in oral mucosa, surrounded by a red halo, which is mostly seen in the front of tonsil, But it can also be located in the soft palate, tonsil, uvula, tongue, etc. in the next 24 hours, the blister burst into shallow ulcer, the diameter is generally less than 5 mm, healing within 1-5 days, rare complications: symptoms generally disappear within 7 days, can produce lasting immunity after infection, but other types of viruses or other enteroviruses in group A may also cause re attack.

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Herpangina must be treated in time, because it will be more uncomfortable after a long time, and even the herpes will be bigger and bigger, more and more, affecting our health and our work.