Can oral herpes in children be treated with traditional Chinese medicine?

Viruses are everywhere in our lives. When some viruses invade the human body, they can cause diseases. For example, oral herpes is caused by enterovirus. This disease is generally more common in infants and young children. In the early stages, there will be fever and mild cough. In severe cases, it may cause children to lose their appetite and become irritable. Therefore, parents should pay attention to prevention in time. So, can children's oral herpes be treated with traditional Chinese medicine?

Systemic treatment

1. Radix Isatidis preparation: 2 ml, intramuscular injection 2/d. The dosage can be reduced for children as appropriate, or 1 packet of granules can be taken 2/d. 2. Take 0.1,3 mg of Virulin orally every day; children should take 10 mg per kilogram of body weight every day.

3. Timely supplement of vitamin C and vitamin B complex throughout the body.

4. Those with recurrent disease can be treated with transfer factor, levamisole, interferon, etc.

Topical treatments

1. Keep the oral cavity clean. You can apply 2.5% chloramphenicol glycerol, 2% tetracycline solution, and Herpes Net (0.1% eye drops). Adults can apply various anti-inflammatory drug films. For those with severe pain, gargle with 1% procaine solution.

2. In the early stage of lip sores, you can apply 10% camphor tincture or 2% iodine tincture locally; or use 0.025% zinc sulfate wet compress.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the cause of this disease is exogenous damp-heat and epidemic toxins. When damp-heat damages the lungs and spleen, it causes disharmony of the lung defense system or accumulation of toxic pathogens in the spleen, causing dysfunction of the spleen's function of governing the limbs and opening the mouth, resulting in the above-mentioned clinical features, accompanied by fever, runny nose, slight cough, and other symptoms similar to a summer cold, or drooling, refusal to eat, and irritability. Traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in treating this disease. It can not only eliminate and relieve symptoms, but also shorten the course of the disease. In the early and middle stages of the disease, the treatment of clearing heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and cooling blood is generally used. Commonly used medicines include honeysuckle, forsythia, scutellaria, gardenia, raw coix seed, burdock seed, cicada shell, lithospermum, reed root, bamboo leaf, gypsum, coptis, rush, Liuyi powder, etc.; in the late stage of the disease, if symptoms such as hot hands and feet, poor appetite, irritability and restlessness are seen, you can add raw rehmannia, ophiopogon, white mulberry, polygonatum and other yin-nourishing and heat-clearing products.

"Oral herpes" is a common infectious disease in children, and Western medicine has no ideal specific medicine yet. The treatment methods are based on clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing dampness, regulating the spleen and facilitating digestion, and nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. The long-term effective empirical powders are compared and supplemented, and finally three powders are selected for combined use. After clinical application in more than 2,000 children, it achieved gratifying results, including rapid symptom relief, significantly shortened course of disease, and high cure rate.