Prevention of hand, foot and mouth infections

Hand-foot-mouth disease is a highly contagious disease that has been reported on a large scale in most parts of the world. In particular, infants have very low immunity to this disease, so the infection rate of children is very high. Once children have HFMD, what aspects need attention?

Symptoms are mild in most cases, mainly characterized by fever and rashes or herpes in the hands, feet, mouth, etc. Most patients can heal themselves. Disease control experts recommend that everyone develop good hygiene habits, so that they can wash their hands before meals, drink raw water, eat cold food, and do a lot of air-drying.

Hand, foot and mouth disease can be affected in all four seasons. It is more common in summer and autumn. If you get sick in summer, children are prone to cause dehydration and electrolyte imbalances, and you need to make proper water and nutrition. Due to fever, oral herpes, and poor appetite, children are reluctant to eat. Therefore, children should be given light, warm, tasty, digestible, soft fluids or semi-liquid, fasting icy, spicy, salty and other irritation foods. .

Especially in summer, when the weather is hot, everyone will choose cold foods, which will affect the gastrointestinal health of patients with hand, foot and mouth disease, resulting in patients with no appetite can not eat more, is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.

The spicy food is not to eat more, because the spicy food is hot, eat very easy to get angry, hand, foot and mouth disease patients will have symptoms of oral ulcers, eating spicy food will increase the condition, so the spicy food can not eat.

Hand-foot-mouth disease usually recovers within a week, but if herpes has broken before, it is extremely easy to infect. Hand-foot-mouth disease has the characteristics of high prevalence, strong infectivity, and complicated transmission routes. The virus can be transmitted through the nasal cavity or oral cavity to healthy children through saliva droplets or flies with virus flies. It can also be transmitted through direct contact. Therefore, we must strengthen prevention in peacetime.