What to do if your child has red spots on his hands

If there are red spots on the child's hands, parents should pay attention to it. It may be caused by hand, foot and mouth disease. If the child has other symptoms, he should go to the hospital for examination in time. Hand, foot and mouth disease has a certain self-limiting nature and it will not cause some complications. The treatment effect is very good and it can usually be cured after about a week of treatment.

1. General treatment.

If there are no complications, the prognosis of this disease is generally good and most patients recover within a week. Mainly for symptomatic treatment. First, isolate the sick child, and those in contact should pay attention to disinfection and isolation to avoid cross infection. Provide symptomatic treatment and take good oral care. For severe oral herpes and ulcers, gargle or apply Kangfuxin liquid to the affected area. You can also mix Smecta into a paste and apply it to the ulcer surface with a cotton swab after meals. Clothes and bedding should be clean, comfortable, soft, and changed frequently. Cut your baby's nails short and wrap your baby's hands when necessary to prevent scratching the rash. In the early stages of the rash on the hands and feet, you can apply calamine lotion. When herpes is formed or the herpes breaks, you can apply 0.5% iodine tincture. Babies with rashes on their buttocks should have their urine and feces cleaned up at all times and their buttocks kept clean and dry. You can take antiviral drugs and Chinese herbal medicines for clearing heat and detoxifying, and supplement vitamins B and C, etc.

2. Combined treatment

Closely monitor changes in the patient's condition, especially the functions of important organs such as the brain, lungs, and heart; for critically ill patients, pay special attention to monitoring blood pressure, blood gas analysis, blood sugar, and chest X-rays. Pay attention to maintaining the balance of water, electrolytes, acid and alkali and protecting important organs. Patients with increased intracranial pressure can be given dehydration treatment such as mannitol. Severe cases can be given methylprednisolone, intravenous immunoglobulin and other drugs as appropriate. Patients with signs of respiratory failure such as hypoxemia and dyspnea should receive mechanical ventilation as soon as possible. Maintain stable blood pressure and give appropriate vasoactive drugs when necessary. Other severe conditions, such as DIC, pulmonary edema, heart failure, etc., should be treated accordingly.

3. Antiviral drugs

Because antiviral drugs are generally best used 24 to 48 hours before onset of illness. Often when we diagnose hand, foot and mouth disease, the most effective treatment stage has passed, and the use of antiviral drugs is not recommended now. In fact, there are many ways to cure hand, foot and mouth disease. The basic method is to ensure good hand and foot hygiene for children, especially to thoroughly clean the hands and feet of young children to avoid infection. For some babies who cannot take care of themselves, adults must provide reasonable treatment and prevention, in the hope of completely curing hand, foot and mouth disease.

Take antiviral drugs, such as ribavirin, viracil, etc. Keep the area clean to avoid secondary bacterial infection. When children have difficulty eating due to oral erosion, they can be given easily digestible liquid food and rinse their mouths after meals. Chlortetracycline and cod liver oil can be applied locally to relieve pain and promote early healing of the erosion surface. You can take B vitamins orally, such as vitamin B2. If accompanied by fever, you can use some Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying. The disease can usually heal itself within 1 to 2 weeks without leaving any sequelae, but it does not provide lifelong immunity, meaning that the disease can still be recurring again in the future. In terms of prevention, it is important to avoid taking children to public places as much as possible during the summer when the disease is prevalent. Children should be educated to develop good hygiene habits on a daily basis, including washing hands before meals and after defecation; toys and tableware should be disinfected regularly. Achieve early detection, early treatment and early isolation. If the disease is prevalent in a nursery or kindergarten, the sick children should be isolated from healthy children first, and the toys should be disinfected with disinfectant; healthy children can take Isatis root granules orally for prevention.

Children will develop many symptoms after they develop hand, foot and mouth disease. Parents must take their children to treatment when these symptoms appear. After reading the relevant content, everyone realized the treatment methods for hand, foot and mouth disease. Hand, foot and mouth disease is particularly harmful, and there are many causes that induce the occurrence of hand, foot and mouth disease, which will bring very serious harm to children. Therefore, parents should pay attention to the occurrence of this disease and should clearly understand the relevant treatment measures.