Compared to the same period last year, the situation of hand, foot and mouth disease in children in the Southern region is progressing at a very high level. Parents need to proactively learn and implement preventive measures to protect the health of their children.

Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common childhood infection that causes sores in or around the mouth, as well as a rash and blisters on the hands, feet, or buttocks. Although the lesions can be painful, hand, foot, and mouth disease is generally benign and not serious.

Many parents, when seeing their children with red rashes like mosquito bites, worry about what disease their children have and what to do? In fact, there are a number of conditions that cause children to have red rashes like mosquito bites all over their bodies. Each cause will have a different treatment.

To minimize the number of deaths due to hand, foot and mouth disease, the Ministry of Health recommends that people and the community take the most effective measures to prevent hand, foot and mouth disease.

Enterovirus A71 is the main cause of hand, foot and mouth disease with severe symptoms, dangerous complications, and even death. Therefore, families need to take preventive measures to protect children from the virus that causes the disease.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral infection that commonly affects young children. The disease can heal on its own and is not too dangerous, but it can also lead to complications. To diagnose hand, foot and mouth disease, the doctor will ask about the patient's symptoms and perform a clinical examination, combined with some tests if necessary.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common disease in children, however, parents often do not know how to handle it. Usually the disease will go away on its own without treatment, however, in some emergency cases, children need to use antibiotics.

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children occurs in many places around the world, mainly caused by Enterovirus 71 in Southeast Asian countries. In Vietnam, hand, foot and mouth disease in children occurs sporadically throughout the year in most localities, with cases concentrated from March to May and from September to December. The disease is common in children under 10 years old, more common in children under 5 years old, concentrated in children under 3 years old, peaking at 1-2 years old. Some of the following types of specimens will be used to diagnose hand, foot and mouth disease.

Hand, foot and mouth disease often occurs in summer and autumn, at the same time as other skin diseases. The skin lesions are blisters, so it is necessary to distinguish it from diseases caused by Herpes simplex virus infection or chickenpox, shingles.

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses including coxsackieviruses and enterovirus 71. The disease is transmitted through the digestive tract, however the virus in respiratory secretions can be transmitted directly through these fluids.