Small red dots on the palate in children with fever may be related to herpetic stomatitis, herpetic pharyngitis, hand, foot and mouth disease and other causes.
1. Herpetic stomatitis: infected by herpes simplex virus type I, can involve the oral mucosa, soft palate, tongue and throat and other parts of the body, the onset of the disease may have a high fever, the oral mucosa appeared single or clustered around the red halo of the small herpes, easy to form ulcers after the rupture of ulcers, the child manifested as irritable, salivation.
2. Herpes pharyngitis: mostly caused by coxsackie virus infection, sudden onset of fever, pharyngeal congestion, pain, grayish-white herpes with reddish halo appearing on the soft palate and pharynx, tongue.
3. Hand, foot and mouth disease: headache, low fever and other prodromal symptoms before the onset of the rash, followed by a red macular rash on the hands, feet and mouth, which then develops into blisters with a red halo and breaks down to form an ulcer.
Children with red spots on the palate after a fever are advised to go to a hospital specialist in time for symptomatic and supportive treatment.