Will hand, foot and mouth disease recur? Will hand, foot and mouth disease recur?

The ears cannot be healed after just one infection and may recur. In addition, hand, foot and mouth disease is highly contagious and often occurs in children under three years old. Severe cases may be accompanied by herpes, especially on the hands and feet, which can seriously damage health. Therefore, we need to understand whether there is a possibility of recurrence of hand, foot and mouth disease after it occurs?

Will hand, foot and mouth disease recur?

Many of us have heard of hand, foot and mouth disease, which is a highly contagious pediatric disease. Most patients are children under three years old. Patients will have a fever when the disease occurs. Severe patients will also develop herpes in their bodies, especially on the hands and feet, which seriously endangers the health of patients. So let’s take a look at how to prevent the recurrence of hand, foot and mouth disease.

So how can we prevent hand, foot and mouth disease in children at home?

Secondly, during the high incidence period of hand, foot and mouth disease in children, try not to take your children to places with relatively dense crowds, so as to avoid infecting your children with the hand, foot and mouth disease virus.

Third, both adults and parents of children may be infected with the hand, foot and mouth disease virus in children, but because the adults or parents of children have strong immunity, they will not become ill. However, they can transmit the hand, foot and mouth disease virus they carry to children and cause the disease. Therefore, adults or parents of children should wash their hands in time when going out to avoid infecting children.

Fourth, children’s tableware, toys, bedding, clothes and other items should be cleaned and disinfected every day. Don't let your children eat cold food.

Experts remind that the peak period of hand, foot and mouth disease is coming, and parents of children should be vigilant, especially paying special attention to children under 5 years old. Once the child is found to have herpes on the feet and mouth, or is nervous, has a high fever, etc., they should go to the hospital immediately for treatment.

If parents do not want their children to be troubled by hand, foot and mouth disease, they should take active preventive measures according to the above methods. Make sure that the environment your child lives in is breathable, and the room your child lives in is disinfected regularly. Do not let your child eat too much cold food. Also, when going out, try not to go to crowded places to avoid infection.

There is no effective medicine for hand, foot and mouth disease, and most children do not need treatment. Children with mild symptoms will recover on their own, while children with severe symptoms need symptomatic treatment. Parents must remember this. In addition, if a doctor or other person recommends the following drugs to you, claiming that they can cure diseases, please firmly refuse them!

First of all, there are various traditional Chinese medicines and Chinese patent medicines, such as Lanqin oral liquid, antiviral oral liquid, Kaihoujian spray, Bairui granules, and Shibaolitong. The efficacy of these drugs has no evidence-based basis at all, and the toxic and side effects are unknown. Here the editor wants to focus on Shibaolitong, a herbal medicine in foreign clothing. In foreign countries, it is not an ordinary health product that can be bought in supermarkets, and it is clearly stipulated that children under 4 years old should not use it. In China, it has almost become a miracle medicine that can cure all diseases for all ages. Please note that this medicine is impossible to have any effect on hand, foot and mouth disease.

Chinese patent medicine injections such as Indomethacin, Xiyanping, and Reduning should never be used under any circumstances. Not only do these medicines generally lack reliable evidence of efficacy, they also have complex ingredients and excessive particles. After injection, the harmful ingredients directly enter the human blood circulation and may cause allergic reactions, which can be fatal in severe cases. According to a report from the Food and Drug Administration, adverse reactions caused by Chinese medicine injections account for 72.6% of all adverse reactions of Chinese medicine.

Secondly, there are various antibiotics. If there is no clear secondary bacterial infection in hand, foot and mouth disease, giving children antibiotics is cheating the children. We must refuse to abuse antibiotics. Secondly, various antiviral drugs. Although hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral infection, there is currently no specific drug for the pathogenic virus of hand, foot and mouth disease. Here I want to focus on ribavirin. The US Food and Drug Administration has only approved ribavirin for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infection and chronic hepatitis C. The use of ribavirin for other viral infections is not only ineffective but also has the risk of hemolytic anemia.

There is also no evidence that acyclovir, another widely used antibiotic, can be used to treat hand, foot and mouth disease. If your doctor prescribes this drug to you, please refuse to use it!

Finally, there are some things that cannot be called medicine, such as Kangfuxin liquid containing cockroach extract or traditional watermelon frost spray. There is no evidence to prove that these things are useful. These so-called "medicines" should not be used on children!