Initial symptoms of HFMD?

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In fact, HFMD is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses. There are many kinds of enteroviruses that cause HFMD. Most of them occur in children under 5 years old, usually with mouth pain, anorexia, accompanied by low fever, hand, foot, oral herpes or small ulcer. In general, most of the children can recover in a week or so, and a few of them will also cause myocarditis, or pulmonary edema, or aseptic meningoencephalitis. So HFMD can't be ignored. Let's talk about the initial symptoms of HFMD.

Initial symptoms of HFMD?

Generally, after oral herpes, skin spots and papules can be seen on the baby's palms, feet or buttocks, usually at the soles of the feet. The rash of children's hand foot mouth disease generally does not appear on the trunk or face, and most of them will subside in about 7 days, leaving no scar. In order to avoid the negligence of parents, with a child's pain, we should actively do a good job in prevention.

Most children with fever at the same time or fever 1 to 2 days later, can see herpes in their oral mucosa, lips, herpes ulcers will form, pain is heavier, this time the child will show irritability, always crying, always drooling, refused to eat and other discomfort. At this time, we should make a further diagnosis. If the diagnosis is confirmed, we should do a good job of isolation to prevent implicating others.

Usually, the incubation period of HFMD is 3 to 4 days, and the patients with mild HFMD symptoms can usually heal themselves. Most of the children with HFMD have a sudden onset, usually with a high fever and body temperature above 38 degrees, and a few patients have low fever. At the same time, it will be accompanied by headache, cough, runny nose and other symptoms. In fact, we will think that this kind of situation is the symptom of a cold, so we continue to observe.

matters needing attention

To prevent hand foot mouth disease in children, we should pay attention to the environment and personal hygiene, and the room should be often ventilated. Don't let children drink raw water, don't eat too much cold drink, fruit should pay attention to cleaning, children's tableware, toys should be disinfected in time, to avoid disease from the mouth. In the high incidence period of HFMD, more attention should be paid to the behavior of the baby.