A few years ago with the media coverage of severe hand, foot and mouth disease, the disease began to enter the public eye, but also triggered a collective panic among parents. Some parents were so scared that their children turned pale and their legs went weak when they heard that their children were diagnosed with HFMD, some parents strongly requested doctors to prescribe heavy medication to prevent the disease from worsening, some parents kept their children under close protection at home when they heard that a child in their neighborhood had HFMD, and some parents even gave their children antiviral medication regularly to prevent HFMD. Preventing Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease …… All the above panic reflects the fact that there is a big cognitive blind spot about hand, foot and mouth disease, because of lack of understanding, so inexplicably afraid and panic. The peak of the disease period to pay attention to the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease Pathogens: hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by enterovirus infection, there are dozens of enteroviruses can cause hand, foot and mouth disease, of which coxsackievirus A16 and enterovirus 71 is considered the main cause of the epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease. The population is generally susceptible to the enteroviruses that cause HFMD. Source of infection: The source of HFMD infection is either a recessive infected person or a patient. A recessive infected person is a person who is infected with an enterovirus but does not show symptoms, mostly adults, and a patient is a person who is infected with an enterovirus and shows some symptoms, mostly children. Transmission route: When our hands touch the nasal discharge, sputum, saliva, herpes fluid, feces, etc. of a recessive infected person or patient, the virus will enter our mouth through our hands and infect us. Clinical manifestations: pain in the mouth, anorexia, low fever, and the appearance of a herpetic rash, which tends to occur on the palms of the hands, the feet, the perianal area, or on the skin at the joints of the extremities. For example, in kindergarten, child A with HFMD played with a small ball with his hand that had been wiped with snot or saliva. When A passed the ball to another child B, the virus followed the ball to child B’s hand and may spread all over the body. Six key points about hand, foot and mouth disease 1, mild hand, foot and mouth disease will heal itself: hand, foot and mouth disease is self-limiting, the vast majority of children only need to isolate recuperation, symptomatic treatment can be self-healing. Parents only need to do a good job of care, in line with the development of the disease process, the child will mostly restore health on their own. 2, this can be done to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease: – May to July, avoid taking children to crowded public places – teach children to wash their hands regularly – diligently change underwear and bedding for children – children’s dishes and toys regularly clean 3, children appear the following symptoms to consider hand, foot and mouth disease: – fever, drooling, refusing to eat, mouth pain, sore throat – oral cavity, hands, feet, perianal red herpes or maculopapular rash 4, hand, foot and mouth disease Mouth disease should not be used without permission: × to the child to take antiviral Chinese medicine (wrong) × to the child to take ribavirin (wrong) √ not abuse drugs, strengthen care, close observation, timely medical care (right) 5, so care for the child faster: – isolated recuperation, avoid strenuous activities – diet should be fine, soft, warm and cool, food to the child can accept prevail – if fever or oral pain is unbearable, standardized medicine to relieve fever and analgesia 6, the child’s mouth When the pain is so care: oral herpes pain makes the child refuse to chew food, parents can prepare soft food such as porridge, noodles, soup soup, etc., while giving the child oral rehydration salt solution to ensure water and electrolytes. Electrolyte popsicles are also a good choice. Adults may have acquired specific immunity through a previous latent infection or illness, and the highest percentage of people with HFMD are children under the age of 5. Of course, adults can also get the disease, and a small number of parents can get HFMD after taking care of a child with HFMD. Normally, we can acquire long-term and stable specific immunity after infection with a virus, but the specific immunity induced by infection with different types of viruses lacks cross-protection. Therefore, HFMD may be acquired again after having it, so parents must do a good job of prevention.