Is child hand foot mouth disease serious?

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Children's resistance is relatively weak, especially prone to hand foot mouth disease, but many people don't have a special understanding of hand foot mouth disease. Let's give you a specific introduction.

Is child hand foot mouth disease serious?

First of all, hand foot mouth disease is mainly caused by enterovirus, easy to get under 4 years old. There are cases at the turn of summer and autumn. September is the peak period. The typical onset process is moderate fever (body temperature below 39 ℃), and then sore throat occurs. Children show drooling and refeeding, and there are some small blisters in the throat. Children without complications can recover in about a week.

Secondly, HFMD is easy to lead to some other complications, such as myocarditis, encephalitis or meningitis, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, polio like limb paralysis, allergic purpura, etc., which mostly occur 2-5 days after the onset. If not treated in time, it may be fatal, and the death rate is very low, only one in 100000 or tens of thousands.

Finally, you can take more vitamins for treatment, such as B vitamins, or you can choose Chinese patent medicine for treatment.

matters needing attention

Usually pay attention to the indoor health, every morning to the child's temperature, indoor ventilation will be better.