Signs oral limbs disease

Hand foot mouth disease is a viral infection that occurs in young children. The disease usually resolves however the disease can also cause dangerous complications.

1. Symptoms

Observation you can also recognize the initial symptoms of the disease of limbs. Because the incubation period the child also appeared the symptoms, even within 3-5 days after exposure to infections such as:

-High fever – usually about 38-39° C

-Loss of appetite

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-Abdominal pain

-Sore throat

Hand foot mouth disease sometimes can cause vomiting, especially if caused by enterovirus 71 strains. These early symptoms can lasts 12-48 hours.

-Mouth ulcers: With some children, then after 1 or 2 days, symptoms of mouth ulcers. The red nodules grow in the mouth, especially around the tongue, and cheek in hand.

Initially, this notes the size of the small buttons. Then they quickly developed into large sores are yellow-grey, surrounded by a red circle. Will usually have from 5-10 stain in the mouth makes for difficult to eat, drink and swallow. Very nasty sexual harassment and child cry. These mouth ulcers will run out within 5-7 days.

-Rash on skin: after the first segment in the mouth, sores appeared the small red bumps will nỏi under the skin. In the fingers, palms, soles and occasionally encountered in the buttocks and groin. The size of about 2-5 mm, in between dark grey and oval.

Often, these pitches are not painful and do not itch. However if not careful this pitches broke up then will cause the disease to spread. The nodules on the skin and blisters that can last up to 10 days.

2. Distinguish diseases other diseases mouth limbs

Many viruses that can cause red spots and ulcers in the mouth – not only the virus that causes hand foot mouth. However, the doctor can distinguish sick limbs of the mouth with the other virus infection based on the following basis:

-The age of the patient. Hand foot mouth disease usually most common in children under 10 years old.

-The pattern of symptoms. The symptoms begin with a high fever and sore throat; then the ulcers develop in the child's mouth, followed by the remainder of the rash in the hands and feet.

-Expression of the pitches. The smaller pitches pox and usually have the color, size and shape differences.

Also can identify the disease by using a cotton swab wipe his skin, throat or rectum of the patient and take the test. For older children you can use sampling.

3. Be careful with complications

The disease is usually mild mouth and limbs off without treatment. However, there are also cases of complications of the disease.

a. water loss

Due to the throat and mouth ulcers can cause unpleasant and hard to swallow, making the child afraid to drink the water that leads to dehydration. Please encourage your child to drink water and milk instead of the drinks are mad as juice. Can will easier than if each drink at least encourage a lot of times instead of trying to drink a lot at a time.

Need to note the expression dehydration in young children as follows:

-Dry skin, wrinkles, skin pinch pinch the seat when long.

-Unable to urinate, or no urine in 8 hours

-Stirring cry

-Sunken Eyes

-The child looks tired and sluggish anomaly

-Sunken Declaring (in infants)

The case of mild dehydration can be treated with a solution of water clearing orally, available at most pharmacies. More severe cases may need treatment in hospital.

It can have dangerous complications if not handled properly

b. Multiple infection

If not clean the nodules on the skin infection, if nodules were scratched. The symptoms of skin infections include:

-Pain, redness, swelling and feeling hot in that the infection

-Skin drip or has pus

Let the child take the examination if the suspect were in the skin infection, because multiple children may need treatment with topical or oral antibiotic.

c. viral meningitis

In some rare cases, the disease can lead to mouth his meningitis due to the virus. Viral meningitis is less severe than bacterial meningitis and not causing serious threats to health.

The majority of children will recover completely within 2 weeks.

The symptoms include:

-High fever 38° C or more

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-Headaches

-Stiff neck

-Fear of light

There is no specific treatment for viral meningitis in addition to taking pain medications to relieve symptoms.

d. encephalitis

Severe complications are rare but most of his mouth disease is inflammation of the brain, which can cause brain damage and life-threatening.

The early signs of brain inflammation is flu-like symptoms, can take place in a few hours or a few days. Other symptoms include:

-Tired