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 certain 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 leather ball with his small hand that had wiped his nose or saliva. When A passed the small leather ball to another child B, the virus also followed the small leather ball to child B’s hand possibly 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, the child will mostly recover on their own; 2, this can prevent hand, foot and mouth disease: May to July, avoid taking children to crowded public places, teach children to wash their hands, change underwear and bedding, children’s tableware and toys regularly clean; 3, children appear the following symptoms to consider hand, foot and mouth disease: fever, drooling, refusing to eat, sore mouth, sore throat – oral cavity. 4. Hand, foot and mouth disease should not be treated without authorization: x give the child antiviral drugs (wrong) √ do not abuse drugs, strengthen care, close observation, timely medical care (right); 5. If the fever or oral pain is unbearable, standardized medicine to relieve fever and analgesia; 6, the child’s oral pain so care: oral herpes brings pain so that children refuse to chew food, parents can prepare for the child porridge, noodles, soup soup and other soft food fluids, 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 having been recessively infected or sick, 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 are infected with HFMD after caring for a child with HFMD. Usually, we can acquire long-term and stable specific immunity after infection with a virus, but the specific immunity induced by infection with different types and strains of viruses lacks cross-protective power. Therefore, HFMD may be acquired again after having it, so parents must do a good job of prevention.