Is hand, foot and mouth disease easy to treat?

After contracting hand, foot and mouth disease, the patient will experience extreme itching in the limbs. However, since hand, foot and mouth disease is a common disease among infants and young children, they will often cry incessantly after developing the disease. At this time, parents should promptly check whether the infants and young children have corresponding skin conditions on their limbs. At the same time, parents are also very worried about whether hand, foot and mouth disease in infants and young children is easy to treat?

What is Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease is one of the common infectious diseases caused by enterovirus. It spreads quickly and is easy to spread. It is mostly prevalent in summer and autumn, and mostly occurs in infants and young children under 5 years old. It can cause fever and rash and ulcers on the hands, feet, mouth and other parts of the body. Ulcers will appear after the herpes in the mouth breaks. The children are in unbearable pain, cry all the time, are irritable, drool, cannot eat, have yellow urine, and severe cases may be accompanied by fever, runny nose, cough and other symptoms. Hand, foot and mouth disease can usually be cured within a week, but if the herpes has broken before then, it is extremely contagious. Some patients may develop fatal complications such as myocarditis, pulmonary edema, aseptic meningitis, and meningoencephalitis.

Causes of hand, foot and mouth disease

Most cases of hand, foot and mouth disease are caused by viral infection, the most common of which is Coxsackievirus A16, a type of enterovirus. They all enter the mouth through food into the entire digestive tract and multiply in the intestines.

Treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease

1. Antiviral treatment

Generally speaking, patients with mild symptoms can receive antiviral, anti-infection, and systemic supportive treatments, while patients with severe symptoms should be closely monitored for changes in their condition, especially the functions of organs such as the brain, lungs, and heart.

2. Drug treatment

Commonly used ones include acyclovir, valacyclovir, famciclovir, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. As highly effective and broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, they can significantly shorten the fever and skin lesion healing time and relieve the pain of oral herpes.

3. Anti-infection treatment

Locally, you can use mouthwash or apply it.

4. Exercise your physical fitness

Improving the body's immunity can resist viral infections and prevent the recurrence of viral diseases.

5. Hospitalization

Severely ill patients require hospitalization for treatment.