Herpetic pharyngitis early symptom?

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Herpangina is an acute infectious and febrile disease, which is caused by many group a coxsackieviruses and occasionally other enteroviruses. It is characterized by herpetic ulcerative mucosal damage. It is also said that it is often secondary to acute rhinitis, pneumonia, influenza, malaria and epidemic meningitis. It can also occur alone. Besides pharynx, herpes can also occur in oral mucosa. Now share with you the early symptoms of herpetic pharyngitis?.

Herpetic pharyngitis early symptom?

First, it is more common in children aged 3-10 years old, especially in summer and autumn. The same patient can be caused by different types of viruses for many times, with an incubation period of 3-10 days, most of which begin with sudden high fever, reaching the peak in 24-48 hours, rising to 39-41 ℃, accompanied by headache, pharyngeal discomfort, myalgia, etc. infants often have vomiting, refeeding, and even febrile convulsions; Severe pharyngeal pain, dysphagia, limb myalgia, anorexia, etc. are common in older children and adults. After 4-5 days, small gray papules appear in the pharynx, which develop into blisters and ulcers within 24 hours. The lesions are surrounded by 1-5 mm red halo. The lesions often appear in the anterior column of tonsil, the margin of soft palate and the palatal lobe. The ulcers heal within 1-5 days, and the symptoms disappear within 3 days, The prognosis is good.

Second: acute lymphocytic angina is a variant herpangina caused by coxsackievirus type a10. It has the same damage as typical angina, but it does not progress to blisters and ulcers. It only has gray white papules formed by lymphocyte infiltration, surrounded by a red halo.

Third: the disease has an epidemic trend and is common in infants. Its clinical features are sudden high fever with sore throat, headache, anorexia, and often pain in neck, abdomen and limbs. Vomiting and convulsion often occur in infants. Within 2 days after onset, a few (rarely more than 12) small (1-2mm in diameter) gray white herpes appear in oral mucosa, surrounded by a red halo, which is mostly seen in the front of tonsil, But it can also be located in the soft palate, tonsil, uvula, tongue, etc. in the next 24 hours, the blister burst into shallow ulcer, the diameter is generally less than 5 mm, healing within 1-5 days, rare complications: symptoms generally disappear within 7 days, can produce lasting immunity after infection, but other types of viruses or other enteroviruses in group A may also cause re attack.

matters needing attention

1. Herpangina oral pain is obvious, most of the children have the phenomenon of refeeding. Should pay attention to children with supplementary nutrition, food should not be overheated, should be light, not greasy, and rich in nutrition, eating difficulties can take intravenous nutrition mixture. 2. To prevent secondary infection, local use of analgesics and antiviral drugs, must pay attention to oral hygiene. The tableware used by children must be disinfected with boiling water to avoid contamination. 3. Avoid irritant food, such as sour, sweet, spicy, salty, hot, hard, etc., to avoid pain caused by stimulating the broken part of the mouth. 4. Take 100g mung bean, 50g balsam pear, 150g job's tears and 100g rice to cook porridge, and give it to children after cooling.