How many days will it take for hand, foot and mouth blisters to heal?

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common disease in children, so if there is a baby at home, mothers should do relevant preventive work for the baby, let the baby eat more foods that can enhance their immunity, and do relevant health care. After suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, the best thing to do is to go to a regular hospital for treatment. So, how many days will it take for the bubbles of hand, foot and mouth disease to disappear?

It takes a certain amount of time for the herpes caused by hand, foot and mouth disease to subside, usually about 7-10 days. It will be accompanied by symptoms such as cough and runny nose. Symptomatic treatment such as cough suppressants can be given.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is an enteroviral disease with an incubation period of 3-7 days and no obvious prodromal symptoms: most patients develop the disease suddenly. It mainly affects four parts of the body: hands, feet, mouth and buttocks. Due to the pain of oral ulcers, the child drools and refuses to eat. Oral mucosal rash appears relatively early, initially as corn-like maculopapules or blisters surrounded by a red halo, mainly located on the tongue and cheeks, and often occurs on the lips and teeth. Flat or convex maculopapules or blisters appear on distal parts such as hands and feet. The rash is not itchy. The maculopapules turn from red to dark and then disappear in about 5 days. The blisters are round or oval flat protrusions with turbid fluid inside. The long diameter is consistent with the direction of the skin texture. They vary in size like soybeans. Generally, there is no pain or itching, and no trace is left after healing. Hand, foot and mouth diseases may not all occur in the same patient. The blisters and rash usually disappear within a week.

Nursing methods for hand, foot and mouth disease

First of all, it is whole-body care to give the best support to children with hand, foot and mouth disease.

When a child suffers from any disease, if the body's resistance is in a good state, the infection of any disease can be well controlled.

Because the infection of hand, foot and mouth disease is mainly a viral infection, at present we still mainly use supportive therapy for the virus. There is no special targeted treatment. We also advocate the use of antiviral drugs, but generally speaking the effect is still somewhat poor.

Because antiviral drugs are generally best used 24 to 48 hours before onset of illness. Often when we diagnose hand, foot and mouth disease, the most effective treatment stage has passed, and the use of these antiviral drugs is not recommended now.