When is the season for hand, foot and mouth disease?

I believe everyone is familiar with hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common pediatric disease. The occurrence of hand, foot and mouth disease can easily bring many-sided impacts to patients. Therefore, we recommend that parents and friends must learn more about hand, foot and mouth disease in their daily lives, so as to help children prevent hand, foot and mouth disease. Below we will introduce when the hand, foot and mouth disease season is.

Hand, foot and mouth disease can occur throughout the year, with the peak incidence from June to August. According to reports from home and abroad, an epidemic occurs every 2 to 3 years, and the population suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease is mainly children under 4 to 5 years old. There will be a small peak when children go to school. Parents are advised to pay attention to their children's hygiene so that the disease can be prevented to a certain extent.

1. General treatment

If there are no complications, the prognosis of this disease is generally good and most patients recover within a week. Mainly for symptomatic treatment.

(1) First, isolate the sick child, and those in contact should be disinfected and isolated to avoid cross infection.

(2) Provide symptomatic treatment and maintain good oral care. For severe oral herpes and ulcers, gargle or apply Kangfuxin liquid to the affected area. You can also mix Smecta into a paste and apply it to the ulcer surface with a cotton swab after meals.

(3) Clothes and bedding should be clean, comfortable, soft, and changed frequently.

(4) Cut your baby’s nails short and wrap your baby’s hands if necessary to prevent scratching the rash.

(5) In the early stages of a rash on the hands and feet, apply calamine lotion. When herpes forms or breaks, apply 0.5% iodine tincture.

(6) For babies with rashes on their buttocks, their urine and feces should be cleaned up at all times and their buttocks should be kept clean and dry.

(7) You can take antiviral drugs and Chinese herbal medicines that clear heat and detoxify, and supplement vitamins B and C.

In the above article, we introduced a common pediatric disease, which is hand, foot and mouth disease. We know that hand, foot and mouth disease is very harmful, so we must pay attention to this disease. The above article gives us a detailed introduction to the season when hand, foot and mouth disease occurs.