What symptom is foot and mouth disease

summary

Foot and mouth disease is a kind of zoonosis, which is an acute infectious disease caused by foot and mouth disease virus. Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is an acute, febrile and highly infectious infectious disease that both domestic and wild animals suffer from. There are more than 70 kinds of susceptible animals, including pigs, cattle, sheep and other main livestock. Human foot-and-mouth disease, if treated timely and correctly, generally will not endanger life. So, what are the symptoms of foot and mouth disease?

What symptom is foot and mouth disease

First: incubation period: usually latent for 6-7 days, patients will show elevated body temperature, oral fever, dry mouth, oral mucosa flushing, blisters. Blisters appear on the hands, feet and skin.

Second: prodromal stage: at this stage, the patient will feel unwell, tired, local congestion of oral cavity and glossopharynx and enlargement of cervical lymph nodes. A small number of patients will feel mild head discomfort and fever.

Third: rash stage: the virus invades the original herpes site, the oral level will affect the diet and swallowing, patients will have high fever, up to about 39 degrees, accompanied by headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a few to hypotension, myocarditis, etc.

matters needing attention

The treatment of foot-and-mouth disease is mainly symptomatic treatment, if it is fever, use antipyretic drugs to cool down, pay attention to disinfection when blisters come out, and apply various antibiotic ointments on hands and feet, such as penicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, etc., to treat blister spots, which has good effect and can prevent secondary bacterial infection. Patients' clothes, towels and basins should not be shared to prevent infection. Once infected with foot-and-mouth disease, patients should be isolated, and the dressings and contacts used by patients should be strictly disinfected and burned.