What are the main transmission routes of hand, foot and mouth disease?

After the Spring Festival, spring has begun, but hand, foot and mouth disease usually occurs in late spring, early summer or spring. Babies are susceptible to various infectious diseases because their immune systems are not yet mature, their resistance is poor, and they are vulnerable to various viruses. For example, hand, foot and mouth disease is a common infectious disease in children. So, what is the main transmission route of hand, foot and mouth disease in children? Let's talk about this topic in detail!

1. The main transmission routes of hand, foot and mouth disease

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children is a common acute infectious disease. Generally speaking, most children can recover on their own after the onset of the disease, and the recovery time is generally about 15-30 days. Children must be isolated during their illness. There are many ways for this disease to spread, such as the digestive tract, secretions, enterovirus, and crowds.

Mode of transmission 1: Digestive tract

Children are infected by contact with hands, towels, handkerchiefs, cups, toys, food and bedding contaminated with the virus. These viruses can cause hand, foot and mouth disease through the digestive tract of children.

Transmission method 2: secretions

Viruses in throat secretions and saliva can be spread through the air (droplets). If you play and shout with a sick child, a large amount of virus will be excreted, and the virus in the saliva can spread the infection through the air.

Mode of transmission 3: Enterovirus

Enterovirus can also cause infection and spread through food transmission. For example, contaminated water, unhygienic food, spoiled food, and expired food can spread bacteria and cause a large number of infections. If you eat with a person with hand, foot and mouth disease, you should avoid eating some contaminated food or water, otherwise you are more likely to be infected.

Mode of transmission 4: Close contact between people

Close contact between people is an important route of transmission of hand, foot and mouth disease. Many healthy children are easily cross-infected with the virus in an environment with poor ventilation or in places where public facilities cannot be disinfected in a timely manner, which leads to a collective outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease among children.

2. How to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease

After understanding the transmission method, we should take preventive measures as soon as possible, cut off the transmission source, and improve the disease as soon as possible. The following are some ways to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease.

Prevention method 1: Wash your hands before and after meals

Parents and friends must pay more attention to their children's personal hygiene and must develop a good habit of washing hands before and after meals to prevent the spread of the virus through the digestive tract, but they should also be careful not to let their children drink cold water and eat cold food, fundamentally switching the source of transmission.

Prevention method 2: Disinfect clothing regularly

Because children's physical resistance is relatively weak, many viruses can be repelled by their own immunity, but at this time, children's physical immunity is easily infected by hand, foot and mouth disease, so parents should regularly disinfect their children's clothes, which can effectively reduce the possibility of viral infection.

Prevention method three: pay attention to indoor ventilation

Especially during the high incidence period of hand, foot and mouth disease, try not to take children to crowded places, such as large shopping malls, supermarkets, etc. These places are high-incidence areas for disease infection. Children's daily activity areas should pay attention to indoor ventilation and maintain air circulation to reduce the possibility of children getting sick.

Conclusion: The above is an introduction to the four transmission modes of hand, foot and mouth disease in children. I hope it will be helpful to you. Especially in spring, we should pay more attention to the prevention of hand, foot and mouth virus, but the hand, foot and mouth virus may also be carried by adults, so parents may also become the source of infection, so parents should also do a good job of personal hygiene to avoid the virus infecting their children.