What should moms and dads do to keep their babies safe from HFMD?

April to June every year is the high incidence of hand, foot and mouth disease, in the high incidence of the arrival of the period, what should moms and dads do in order to let the baby away from hand, foot and mouth disease? The main symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease Hand, foot and mouth disease occurs most often in preschool children, the highest incidence within 4 years of age. The main symptoms of HFMD are mouth ulcers, pain, bad breath, salivation, refusal to eat, anorexia, irritability, low or moderate fever, pharyngeal congestion, enlarged tonsils, and a rash on the hands, feet and heart, starting with a red maculopapular rash, which soon turns into a herpes blisters, and the rash subsides within a week, leaving no hyperpigmentation, desquamation or scarring. Common case manifestations Acute onset, fever, scattered herpes on oral mucosa, maculopapular rash, herpes on hands, feet and buttocks, herpes may be surrounded by an inflammatory red halo, with less fluid in the blisters. It may be accompanied by cough, runny nose and loss of appetite. In some cases, the rash or herpetic pharyngitis is the only manifestation. Most of them heal within a week and have a good prognosis. In some cases, the rash is atypical, e.g., single site or maculopapular rash only. In severe cases, the disease progresses rapidly in a few cases (especially those younger than 3 years old), with meningitis, encephalitis (with brainstem encephalitis being the most dangerous), encephalomyelitis, pulmonary edema, and circulatory disorders occurring within 1-5 days of the onset of the disease, and in a very small number of cases the disease is so critical that it can lead to death, and the surviving cases may have after-effects. Severe cases may present with neurological involvement and acute circulatory and respiratory failure, with a high incidence under 3 years of age. Severe cases of hand, foot and mouth can be manifested as neurological involvement and acute circulatory and respiratory failure 1, neurological manifestations Poor mental health, lethargy, easy to startle, headache, vomiting, delirium or even coma; limb shaking, myoclonus, nystagmus, ataxia, ocular dyskinesia; weakness or acute flaccid paralysis; convulsions. Meningeal irritation signs can be seen on examination, tendon reflexes are weakened or disappeared, and Bartholomew’s sign and other pathologic signs are positive. 2.Respiratory manifestations: shallow respiration, dyspnea or rhythmic changes, cyanosis of lips and mouth, coughing, coughing white, pink or bloody frothy sputum; the lungs can be heard wet rales or phlegm sounds. 3.Circulatory system manifestations Pale gray face, skin pattern, cold extremities, fingers (toes) cyanosis; cold sweat; capillary refilling time is prolonged. Heart rate increases or slows down, pulse is shallow or weak or even disappears; blood pressure increases or decreases. Transmission of hand-foot-mouth disease Hand-foot-mouth disease has a certain degree of contagiousness, and its transmission modes are: 1, close contact with the crowd is an important mode of transmission, children through contact with the virus-contaminated hands, towels, handkerchiefs, dental cups, toys, eating utensils, milk utensils, as well as bedding, underwear, etc. caused by infection. 2, the virus in the patient’s throat secretion and saliva can be spread through the air (droplet), so close contact with sick children can cause infection. 3.Drinking or eating virus-contaminated water and food can also cause infection. Hand, foot and mouth family care 6 small strokes 1, due to the child’s oral ulceration, pain, so the diet as light as possible, the most appropriate to fluid food, avoid eating hot and sour, hot, fatty, indigestible goods. 2, pay attention to personal hygiene, keep the oral cavity clean, ulcers can be localized with light saline wipe, local spray on the throat wind or watermelon cream. If the oral mucosa ulcers obvious available Simida powder sprinkled on the trauma, in order to promote the repair of the local mucosa. 3, hand and foot heart herpes can not be used without a sterilized needle, should be by its own subside, so as to avoid secondary infection. Glycerin lotion can be used externally to converge the sores to stop itching, such as herpes ulcers can be used for gentamycin ophthalmic ointment or Pepto-Bismol ointment to apply to the ulcers. 4, can be appropriate with diet therapy, such as carrots, horseshoes, bamboo cane boiled lean meat soup or bamboo leaves rolled heart with rock sugar decoction tea. 5, once the child appears chest tightness, shortness of breath, fatigue, like sighing and other symptoms, should be alert to the existence of myocarditis, must be immediately to the hospital. 6, if the child suddenly vomiting, neck straightening, and even limb convulsions, for the complication of central nervous system infection signs, should be treated promptly to avoid delay. Usually, even if the child suffers from hand, foot and mouth disease, as long as with the treatment, a week or so will be fine! So parents do not need to worry too much, but must not be negligent oh!