Does hand, foot and mouth disease cause rash all over the body?

Hand, foot and mouth disease is also caused by viral infection and is also contagious. It needs to be treated in time. It can be treated with acyclovir injection or Qingkailing injection. If the herpes ruptures, antibiotics can be used for treatment. Generally, hand, foot and mouth disease has a certain self-limiting nature and can gradually recover after about a week of treatment.

5 common treatments for hand, foot and mouth disease in children

1. The disease will subside automatically if it is mild

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children is usually accompanied by symptoms such as fever. In many cases, you only need to pay attention to wind prevention and treat the fever, and the hand, foot and mouth disease will automatically subside. However, this is only a relatively mild type.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine detoxification and oral disinfection

As the saying goes, "food enters the body through the mouth." Children who get hand, foot and mouth disease may have swallowed some viruses without knowing it. In addition to taking some detoxifying Chinese medicine, the treatment also requires rinsing the mouth with warm water before and after eating. This can ensure that the bacteria do not invade again, which is also helpful for the treatment of hand, foot and mouth disease.

3. Take antiviral drugs

Hand, foot and mouth disease in children is a damp-heat viral infectious disease, so treatment can start with antiviral treatment. Taking some antiviral drugs containing vitamins B and C for treatment is very effective.

4. Improve immunity

When a child is diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease, we should try our best to find ways to enhance the child's immunity so that he or she can resist the virus and prevent further spread. At the same time, we also need to use some transfer factor drugs to cure the hand, foot and mouth disease herpes in the body.

5. Severe cases require prompt hospitalization

If a child's hand, foot and mouth disease is serious, he or she should be sent to the hospital for hospitalization and observation in time so that the doctor can provide targeted treatment such as infusion. If the child's life is threatened if the disease is delayed too long.

Major complications

1. Ulcers. Since the skin and mucous membranes of infants and young children's hands, feet, mouths, and perianal areas are relatively thin and tender, ulcers are easily formed, and long-term ulcers are difficult to heal.

2. Infection: Gastrointestinal viruses can cause systemic infection, such as infecting the myocardium, causing myocarditis; infecting the brain or meninges, causing encephalitis or meningitis; infecting the lungs, causing pneumonia and pulmonary edema.

3. Severe cases may lead to death. In a small number of infants, due to low immunity and infection, they may develop myocarditis, meningitis, and pulmonary edema. If not treated in time, it will endanger life.