Hand, foot and mouth disease rash treatment

In fact, babies under the age of six are prone to some diseases, especially common childhood diseases, which are most likely to occur in babies. For example, many children often suffer from rashes due to hand, foot and mouth disease. The rash will crack and ooze water. In severe cases, it may also fester and become infected. The baby's clothes and bedding must be kept cleaner, including clothes that must be disinfected after washing and exposed to the sun.

Rash Care

Baby's clothes and bedding should be clean, comfortable, soft, and changed frequently.

Keep your baby's nails short and wrap their hands if necessary to prevent them from scratching the rash.

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

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

Be careful to keep your skin clean to prevent infection.

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children generally presents with low or moderate fever and does not require special treatment. Just let your baby drink more water.

For babies whose body temperature is between 37.5℃ and 38.5℃, physical cooling methods such as heat dissipation, drinking more warm water, and taking warm baths can be used.

First of all, it is whole-body care to give the child the best support.

When a child suffers from any disease, if the body's resistance is in a good state, the infection of any disease can be well controlled.

Because the infection of hand, foot and mouth disease is mainly a viral infection, at present we still mainly use supportive therapy for the virus. There is no special targeted treatment. We also advocate the use of acyclovir, but generally speaking the effects are not very ideal.

Because antiviral drugs are generally best used 24 to 48 hours before onset of illness. Often when we diagnose hand, foot and mouth disease, the most effective treatment stage has passed, and the use of these antiviral drugs is not recommended now.

In general, it is still necessary to improve the child's own resistance.

For example, provide children with easily digestible food and maintain a certain amount of drinking water. If the child's temperature is higher than 38 degrees Celsius, use appropriate antipyretic drugs to control the temperature within a more suitable temperature range.

If your child has oral ulcers, let him or her rinse his or her mouth frequently with 1% salt water or warm water. This can keep the pain at a milder level.

If a child has severe oral pain or ulcers, parents can take the child to the hospital, where the doctor can use some antibiotic ointment or liquid with local anesthetic to relieve the child's pain.