How to treat hand, foot and mouth disease in children? How to treat hand, foot and mouth disease?

In daily life, both adults and children are more likely to suffer from hand, foot and mouth disease, but children's resistance is not as good as that of adults. Therefore, during the high incidence period of hand, foot and mouth disease, children must pay attention to preventing hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease is highly contagious, and children like to move around everywhere, so they are very susceptible to this disease. How to treat children with hand, foot and mouth disease?

1. Treatment principles of hand, foot and mouth disease

There is no specific treatment for hand, foot and mouth disease, so early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment are emphasized. If there are no complications, the prognosis of this disease is generally good, and most patients recover within a week. Symptomatic treatment is mainly adopted. During the illness, the care of the child should be strengthened to reduce the occurrence of serious complications. Antiviral drugs and traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxification have certain effects. Vitamins B and C can be used as supplements. Failure to treat in time and delaying the disease are one of the important causes of death.

2. Comprehensive treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease

1. After diagnosis, take antiviral drugs such as ribavirin under the guidance of a doctor.

2. Maintain good oral hygiene and rinse your mouth with saline or warm water before and after eating.

3. Keep the local skin clean, wash your hands frequently, and avoid scratching the affected area to prevent secondary bacterial infection.

4. Physical cooling is the main method for fever patients, such as warm water bathing, ice packs on the forehead, etc. Children with high fever can take antipyretics orally under the guidance of a doctor. However, it is best not to use hormones to reduce fever in the early stage.

5. For oral herpes, you can use watermelon frost spray 2-3 times a day. For hand and foot herpes, apply gentian violet or calamine lotion. For herpes ulcers, you can use chlortetracycline cod liver oil to relieve pain. It is forbidden to use various preparations containing skin hormones. It is best for parents not to buy medicine for external application on their own, but should be under the guidance of a doctor.

6. Take B vitamins orally. Such as vitamin B1, vitamin B

3. Principles of Chinese medicine treatment

Traditional Chinese medicine has a good effect on hand, foot and mouth disease. It mainly adopts the method of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Commonly used medicines include Radix Isatidis, Folium Isatidis, Mulberry Leaves, Wild Chrysanthemum, Root of Reed, Mint, Forsythia, etc., but the specific prescription should be asked by the doctor. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can reduce fever and make the rash and oral herpes disappear as soon as possible.

4. Key points of dietary treatment

In the acute stage, the oral mucosa of children is covered with herpes and ulcers, which makes them painful and difficult to eat. Do not give them spicy or other irritating foods, and avoid hot and salty foods. They can eat light, soft, mild meals or liquid or semi-liquid foods. Drink more warm water.

5. Diet therapy for hand, foot and mouth disease

1. Lotus leaf porridge: 2 fresh lotus leaves, 50 grams of white rice. Chop the lotus leaves and cook into porridge.

2. 20 bamboo leaves, 10 wicks, 15 grams of lentils, 6 grams of talc, add a little sugar, decoct and drink.

3. Honeysuckle and cicada shell drink: 15 grams of honeysuckle, 3 grams of cicada shell, appropriate amount of water, decoct in water and drink.

6. Combined treatment

When hand, foot and mouth disease is severe, it may be combined with myocarditis, encephalitis, meningitis and other symptoms, and should be promptly hospitalized for treatment. Patients with meningitis should be treated as meningitis patients, and patients with myocarditis should be treated as myocarditis patients. If DIC, pulmonary edema, heart failure, etc. occur, appropriate treatment should be given.

7. Pay attention to disinfection and isolation treatment

Once a child is found to be infected with hand, foot and mouth disease, he/she should seek medical attention in time and avoid contact with the outside world. Generally, he/she needs to be isolated for 2 weeks. Items used by children should be thoroughly disinfected: they can be soaked in chlorine-containing disinfectant, and items that should not be soaked can be exposed to the sun. The child's room should be ventilated regularly to keep the air fresh, circulating, and at a suitable temperature. Families with conditions can use lactic acid fumigation for air disinfection every day. Reduce the number of people entering and leaving the child's room, prohibit smoking, prevent air pollution, and avoid secondary infection.

8. What not to eat

1. Avoid eating too cold or too hot food

Children with hand, foot and mouth disease will develop ulcers after the herpes in the mouth breaks, which makes eating painful. The food temperature should not be too high. Eating overheated or overcold food, such as hot soup, hot pot, hot drinks, cold drinks, ice cream, iced fruit, etc., will irritate the ulcerated area and cause pain, which is not conducive to the healing of the lesions.

2. Avoid spicy food

Children with hand, foot and mouth disease have herpes in their mouths that are easy to break, so they should not eat spicy food to avoid irritating the mucous membrane and aggravating the condition. They should temporarily avoid eating peppers, garlic, ginger, pepper, green onions, fried food, barbecue, and hot pot.

3. Avoid eating too salty food

Children with fever and oral herpes have poor appetite and are unwilling to eat. It is advisable to feed children light, warm, delicious, easily digestible, soft liquid or semi-liquid food. Salty food, such as pickled food, salted fish, pickled vegetables, and food with strong taste, is prohibited to avoid irritating the ulcer surface and aggravating the pain and condition.

4. Avoid eating hair-raising foods

The diet of patients with hand, foot and mouth disease should be light and non-irritating. They should avoid eating seafood, beef, mutton, rooster, carp, duck, goose, mango, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other irritating foods to avoid aggravating the local rash and prolonging the course of the disease.

5. Avoid eating rough food

Some parents believe that children should supplement nutrition when they are sick. In the early stages of hand, foot and mouth disease, they give their children rough and difficult-to-digest foods, such as sweet potatoes, onions, glutinous rice, bamboo shoots, etc. These foods will not only aggravate the pain in the child's mouth, but may also stimulate the child's gastrointestinal tract and affect the absorption of nutrients.