Hand, foot and mouth disease recipes

Hand, foot and mouth disease is contagious, so try to keep your children away from crowds, and wash your hands before and after meals. Parents should wash their hands before coming into contact with their babies after going out. Be careful about the baby's diet and avoid drinking raw water or eating cold things. The places where the baby often stays and the bedroom must be ventilated frequently. Toys and things that the baby touches should be disinfected, and pay attention to rest.

1. Drink honeysuckle and gardenia porridge for hand, foot and mouth disease

Ingredients: 15 grams each of honeysuckle, gardenia, buffalo horn, isatis root, scutellaria, 100 grams of rice, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation: Wash all the herbs and put them into a pot; add appropriate amount of water, soak for 5 to 10 minutes, then boil them to extract the juice; add rice and cook into porridge, add sugar when it is cooked, and boil for one or two more times.

Edible: 2 doses per day, for 3 to 5 days.

Function: It can clear away heat and detoxify. It is suitable for symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease such as persistent high fever, irritability, sore throat, red tongue and yellow tongue coating.

2. Drink mung bean and loofah porridge for hand, foot and mouth disease

Ingredients: 50 grams each of mung beans and rice, 150 grams of loofah, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation: Wash the loofah, slice it and set aside; wash the mung beans and rice, first put the mung beans into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook until the mung beans bloom, then add the rice to cook porridge; 3. When it is cooked, add the loofah slices and sugar, and boil it for one or two more times.

Edible: 2 doses per day, for 3 to 5 days.

Effect: It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and has diuretic and detoxifying effects. It is suitable for thirst, red urine, diarrhea, etc. caused by hand, foot and mouth disease.

3. Drink vegetable rice soup for hand, foot and mouth disease

Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of rice, 1/5 of a potato, 1/10 of a carrot, some salt.

Preparation method: Wash the rice and soak it in water. Chop potatoes and carrots into small pieces. Pour rice and chopped vegetables into a pot and add appropriate amount of water to boil. Filter the cooked ingredients and add appropriate amount of salt to season. It would be better if you add some milk.

4. Drink white radish porridge for hand, foot and mouth disease

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons of grated white radish, 4 tablespoons of soft porridge

Seasoning: half a cup of broth.

Method: Wash the white radish leaves, cut into small pieces and set aside. Pour the porridge into the mortar, add the broth and mash it. Pour the mashed white radish into the porridge, put it in the microwave, set to high heat, heat for about 1 minute, and take it out.

Nursing methods for hand, foot and mouth disease

1. Disinfection and isolation

Once hand, foot and mouth disease is discovered, the child should be isolated to prevent the spread of the disease. Children should stay home until the fever and rash subside and the blisters crust over. Isolation is generally required for 2 weeks. Items used by the child should be thoroughly disinfected. Generally, they can be soaked in chlorine-containing disinfectant. Items that are not suitable for soaking can be exposed to sunlight. Windows should be opened regularly in the sick child's room for ventilation to keep the air fresh, flowing and at a suitable temperature. Families with conditions can use vinegar fumigation to disinfect the air every day. Do not allow too many people into the room, prohibit smoking, prevent air pollution, and avoid secondary infection.

2. Pay attention to changes in the condition and treat the symptoms in time

Families should prepare thermometers, and parents should learn to measure body temperature, read the thermometer, count pulse and breathing. Measure body temperature, pulse and respiration regularly. Hand, foot and mouth disease in children generally presents with low or moderate fever and does not require special treatment. Children can be allowed to drink more water. For children with a body temperature between 37.5℃ and 38.5℃, physical cooling methods such as heat dissipation, drinking more warm water, and taking warm baths can be used.

What are the causes of hand, foot and mouth disease?

Among the common enteroviruses, Coxsackievirus is the culprit of hand, foot and mouth disease. In addition, other strains of Coxsackievirus A or enterovirus 71 can also cause hand, foot and mouth disease. Coxsackievirus is a type of enterovirus.

The infection site is the entire digestive tract including the pharynx, not the respiratory tract. The transmission route is fecal-oral, and only a few are respiratory. Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by eating and drinking contaminated beverages, fruits, food, etc., and is not transmitted through breathing in crowded crowds. The site of infection is the intestine.

The virus can survive for several days at room temperature and can be quickly inactivated at 50°C. There is no surviving virus in boiled water. Therefore, the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease mainly focuses on eating and drinking fresh cooked food during the epidemic period. Enterovirus is the most common and important virus in humans. Its infection site is the digestive tract, not the respiratory tract. Due to the absence of diarrhea, clinicians often misdiagnose enterovirus infection as gastrointestinal cold, fever of unknown cause, epidemic chest pain, viral encephalitis, viral myocarditis, etc. Treatment is often just symptomatic treatment.