Prevention of hand foot and mouth disease.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Prevention of hand foot and mouth disease [Keywords:] hand foot and mouth disease, prevention, treatment HFMD (hand foot mouth disease, HFMD is caused by a variety of common infectious diseases of intestinal virus. To the main incidence of infants and young children, the disease clinically with fever and hand, foot, mouth, anus and other parts of the main rash characteristics, few patients can cause myocarditis, pulmonary edema, aseptic meningitis and other fatal complications. 1 Epidemiology Hand, Foot and mouth disease caused by enteroviruses, including enterovirus 71 (EV71 and the Coxsackie A group viruses (CoxA, #8203;#8203;echovirus (Echo of some serotypes. Coxsackie virus A16 and enterovirus type 71 together is considered to be the main reason for this epidemic [1]. enterovirus infectious, easy to cause an outbreak or epidemic, the disease’s incubation period of 2 to 7 days, the source of infection, including patients and latent infection, mode of transmission varied, spread mainly through close contact with the crowd. virus through saliva, herpes fluid, feces contaminated hands, towels, handkerchiefs, tooth cups, toys, utensils, milk with and bedding, underwear, etc., causing indirect contact, secretion of patients with throat the virus material and saliva may be spread by droplets, such as exposure to contaminated water, also through water pollution. 2 Clinical manifestations Occurred in the pre-school children, especially infants and children up, adult-onset rare. Four seasons can be disease, common in the 4 to 9 months. Systemic symptoms are mild, the former may have low heat rash, headache, loss of appetite and other prodromal symptoms. Rashes early red rash, and soon developed into blisters, and around to flush. rashes often occur simultaneously in the hand, foot, mouth, anus, but there was insufficiency in patients with performance. individual cases showed only the rash or herpes sore throat. course about 1