【Share Health Care】A big outbreak of herpetic angina in autumn! Even worse than hand, foot and mouth disease!

The weather gradually turned cold, the virus began to spread wantonly, hand, foot and mouth disease, herpes angina infectious diseases entered a period of high incidence. To this end, Install Share reminds parents and kindergartens to take preventive measures to prevent diseases.
1. What is herpetic angina in children?
Herpetic angina in children is caused by Coxsackie A virus, which occurs in autumn. It is a common viral pharyngitis with epidemic. The clinical features are sudden onset of high fever accompanied by sore throat, headache, anorexia, and often neck, abdomen and limb pain.
The course of herpes angina:
1. The incubation period is 2-7 days. The child has no symptoms, but the virus is replicating in large quantities in the body.
2. In the prodromal period 1-2 days, sudden continuous high fever or repeated high fever 38℃-40℃, accompanied by throat swelling, loss of appetite and other symptoms.
3. The blistering period is 2-3 days. Except for high fever, blisters appear on the mucosa of the oral cavity.
4. In the ulcer period, low-grade fever or fever is reduced, but it is also the most painful period of the child, drooling or even refusal to eat due to the pain of the ulcer.
Share reminder: During the illness, parents should monitor their children's temperature at any time. Physical cooling or fever-reducing drugs can be used to prevent fever and convulsions.
2. Is herpetic angina a hand, foot and mouth disease?
Don't mistake it for hand, foot and mouth disease:
Hand, foot and mouth disease must be herpes on the mouth, hands and feet, and herpes angina only herpes on the mouth.
Don't mistake it for a cold: The
initial symptoms of herpetic angina are not much different from the common cold, and parents don't know much about it, so it is easy to be treated as a common cold and delay treatment.
The most significant feature of herpetic angina is that the throat is full of herpes, first with congestive red spots, followed by vesicles, and then ulcers, forming ulcers. Accompanied by repeated fever, sore throat, child refusal to eat, drooling. Babies with this disease cannot speak, so they cry day and night and cannot sleep.
Is it contagious?
Herpetic angina is a disease characterized by acute fever and herpes ulcers in the pharyngeal isthmus caused by enteroviruses. The main route of transmission is feces-oral or respiratory tract. It is highly infectious and spreads quickly.
Pay attention to isolation:
Children should stay at home as much as possible to reduce unnecessary outings. It is best to isolate for another week after the body temperature is normal and the herpes subsides. Generally speaking, a total of 2 weeks of isolation, and the legal isolation time for hand, foot and mouth disease is The same, especially in the first week of onset, the most contagious. At the same time, parents should visit as little as possible, because parents may also become a vector of herpes angina.
3. How to treat, care and prevent?
How to treat:
As ulcers are formed after the vesicles in the pharyngeal isthmus are ruptured, it is difficult to eat water and increase the difficulty of ensuring fluid intake. The methods of supplementing fluids are as follows: Drink cold milk or water for children, small amounts for several times, to prevent dehydration and help the body recover.
If the child has frequent high fever, less eating, decreased urine, irritability, convulsions, etc., it is prone to complications (most complications of herpetic angina are rare. But simple high fever can also cause convulsions), it is recommended to go Hospital infusion.
4. How to care?
Cooling treatment: heat treatment is to increase the comfort of the baby. You can wipe the bath with warm water. It is forbidden to wipe the bath with alcohol, and it is not recommended to wipe the bath with ice water. It is recommended to use antipyretics (acetaminophen or ibuprofen) for 38, 5 degrees or above 39 degrees.
Tip: Herpes angina is caused by a virus, antibiotics are not effective, so do not use antibiotics!
Oral care: You can gargle with warm, cold water or light salt water. Applying cod liver oil to the ulcer can help relieve pain.
Diet care: During illness, the child's digestive function is weakened, and the diet should be liquid and easy to digest!
Babies under 2 years old should take milk as the standard. Note that the milk should not be too hot or too iced to prevent irritation of the baby's mouth and increase the child's pain!
Babies over 2 years old mainly use rice porridge, rice soup, and noodles. The tableware should be disinfected in time. Children who can gargle can gargle with light salt water every day.
Reminder:
The child’s mental state, limb shaking, susceptibility, skin temperature, respiration, heart rate, blood pressure, etc. should be closely monitored. Once a critical signal appears, immediate medical treatment or follow-up is required.
5. How to prevent?
Help children wash their hands frequently, eat cooked food, drink clean water, pay attention to strengthening daily exercise, frequent ventilation in the room, frequent drying of bedding, and more disinfection of toys, and minimize the use of public places.
During the high-incidence period of herpetic angina, install Share reminds parents to do a good job of prevention. If you find that your child has a fever and blisters in his mouth, he should go to the hospital for treatment in time. At the same time, urge children to strengthen exercise and maintain adequate rest to enhance their own resistance.