What medicine is used for hand, foot and mouth infusion

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious skin infection. The main symptoms of patients are many red rashes on the hands, feet and mouth, and they also feel itchy and painful. Patients with hand, foot and mouth disease need to be isolated to prevent the bacteria from spreading to other normal people. Hand, foot and mouth disease can be treated by infusion, so what medicine should be used when infusing patients with hand, foot and mouth disease?

1. What medicine is used for hand, foot and mouth disease infusion?

Hand, foot and mouth disease is generally treated with antiviral drugs, such as ribavirin and ganciclovir. As long as the medication is taken according to the doctor's instructions, the child's condition will gradually improve in about a week, and the infusion will also include some antiviral drugs.

2. Causes of hand, foot and mouth disease

There are several viruses that can cause hand, foot and mouth disease. The most common is coxsackievirus A16. In addition, other strains of coxsackievirus A or enterovirus 71 can also cause hand, foot and mouth disease. Coxsackieviruses are a type of enterovirus, which includes polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses. The infection site is the entire digestive tract including the oral cavity, where contaminated food, drinks, fruits, etc. enter the body through the mouth and proliferate in the intestines. Hand, foot and mouth disease mainly occurs in children under 10 years old, but adults can also get the disease, so it can be said that everyone is susceptible. After infection, one only gains immunity to that type of virus and has no cross-immunity against reinfection with other types of viruses. That is, after suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, one may suffer from hand, foot and mouth disease again due to infection with other types of viruses.

3. Diet for patients with hand, foot and mouth disease

3.1. The diet should be light, warm and easily digestible. Because patients with hand, foot and mouth disease cannot eat due to the pain of oral herpes ulcers, they need to eat more easily digestible and light food at this time to avoid irritating the herpes and increasing the pain. For example, noodles, porridge, rice soup, soy milk and milk cooked in water are all good, they can maintain basic nutrition and are easier to absorb. High-protein foods, greasy foods, fruits, bread and other relatively dry and difficult to digest foods should be avoided in the early stages of the illness. The editor kindly reminds you that using a straw to suck can reduce the contact between appetite and oral mucosa, reduce pain, and help promote the healing of eroded surfaces.