How to take care of children with hand, foot and mouth disease at home?

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Children with hand, foot and mouth disease do not need to abstain from anything, in addition to providing adequate nutrition according to age, parents should note in eating and drinking:

Video content is professionally consulted by Doctor Pham Gia Han - Pediatric Center - Vinmec Times City International Hospital

Children who are breastfed continue to be breastfed; Encourage children to eat cold foods; Limiting spicy, hot, and sour foods...will make children suffer from increased pain in their hands, feet and mouth, loss of appetite and affect the treatment of hand, foot and mouth at home; Oral hygiene for children with hand, foot and mouth disease with physiological saline to ensure oral hygiene and avoid superinfection; Clean baby's skin by maintaining daily bathing. Currently, there is still no recommendation on bathing a special leaf for children with hand, foot and mouth disease, mothers just need to ensure daily body hygiene for children with clean water or soap, should consult more. of doctors on how to treat hand, foot and mouth disease at home for children, preventing complications.
When children have hand, foot and mouth disease, doctors will often prescribe oral medications to relieve pain, skin medications to prevent infections such as methylene blue for the purpose of ensuring hygiene and avoiding superinfection for children in Hand, foot and mouth disease days.
Hand-foot-and-mouth rash usually lasts for a short time < 7 days, may leave a few bruises then disappear, very rarely, hand-foot-and-mouth disease is ulcerated or superinfected.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by gastrointestinal viruses, these viruses have different groups. When children with hand, foot and mouth disease are often infected with one type of many types, they are likely to have hand, foot and mouth disease next time. It depends on whether the next time a child has hand, foot, and mouth disease, it depends, but usually, when a child is infected with enterovirus, the condition is usually more severe.

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