Autumn and winter high "new type of virus"? Parents in the circle of friends panicked
The authority of the disease control center responded that herpes canchitis can be controlled and controlled
Recently, many parents have sent such warning messages in the WeChat group. “Please pay attention to families with children! The recent epidemic of herpes pharyngitis is a new type of virus. The disease is extremely contagious...†“The symptoms of herpes pharyngitis are even worse than hand-foot-and-mouth disease...†In addition, some childcare institutions also suspended classes due to herpangina or hand, foot and mouth disease, causing many parents to panic. Yesterday, Nanjing CDC gave an authoritative response.
What is the difference between hand-foot-mouth disease and herpetic angina?
An expert from the Department of Acute Diseases of the Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that both hand-foot-mouth disease and herpes-induced angina are infectious diseases caused by enteroviruses. There are more than 20 types of enteroviruses that cause hand-foot-and-mouth disease. The main symptoms of the disease are low fever, rashes and herpes in the hands, feet and mouth. In a few cases, severe cases such as meningitis can occur. Individual severe cases have a fast-rising and life-threatening condition. Some cases only showed rash or herpetic angina. More recovered in a week, the prognosis is good. There is currently a lack of effective therapeutic drugs, mainly symptomatic treatment.
The biggest difference between the clinical manifestations of hand-foot-mouth disease and herpetic angina is that herpes herpes zosteritis only occurs in the mouth, and hand, foot and mouth disease in addition to herpes in the mouth, the hands and feet, buttocks and even the trunk and limbs are There is a rash.
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease fell from the same period of last year
Whether it is hand-foot-mouth disease or herpangina, it will happen throughout the year, and there will be a small peak in autumn and winter. The reporter learned from the Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention that, according to data from the school absenteeism monitoring system for Nanjing primary and secondary schools and child care institutions, the reported hand, foot and mouth disease (mainly in kindergartens) for primary and secondary schools and child care institutions in November this year It dropped by 30% in the same period last year.
On the one hand, the reported incidence was less than the same period of last year. On the other hand, schools and childcare institutions have been strictly implementing relevant prevention and control measures formulated by the education and health departments. In general, a class has 2 or more cases of hand-foot-mouth disease within a week, and the Department of Disease Control recommends that the class be suspended for 10 days.
When a child suffers from sore throat, he cannot eat it. How can the parents care?
The reporter learned from the pediatric clinic of the Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Hospital that the number of young children with hand-foot-mouth disease and herpangina has recently increased. The chief physician of the Pediatrics Department of Qiu Yufang said that the early symptoms of herpes angina are not much different from those of the common cold, so it is easy for parents to mistake it for a common cold and delay treatment.
The disease is mainly characterized by rapid fever, sustained high fever, or repeated high fever. Older children often complain of sore throat, especially when swallowing, and sometimes complain of headache, abdominal pain, or myalgia. Infants and young children show irritability, food refusal, and runny nose. Vomiting and so on. Most children do not have cough, runny nose and other symptoms. Some patients may have submandibular lymph node enlargement or tenderness, blood routine examination is mostly normal or slightly lower blood cell count. Symptoms generally disappear within 7 days.
After suffering from pediatric herpetic angina, the child is very painful, because the disease will lead to congestion of the pharyngeal, tonsils, soft palate, etc. can see about millet grain size of the gray herpes, 2 days to 3 days after the gradual expansion of ulceration and ulceration. You can use the following methods to reduce the child's discomfort: pay attention to oral hygiene, keep the mouth clean; drink plenty of water; rinse with light salt water. Diet can choose to eat some liquid, should pay attention to keep light, give children more to eat some vitamin-rich vegetables, fruits, etc., eat as much as possible fried, deep-fried class of greasy food. Do not eat spicy food.
Parents must pay attention to the fact that the condition is urgent and the temperature rises rapidly after getting sick, which easily leads to high fever twitching. If you find abnormalities in children, please see a doctor. Director Qiu also reminded that sick children must be isolated for two weeks. The used utensils must be boiled and disinfected to prevent cross-infection. This disease has not yet been developed vaccines, due to a variety of enteroviruses, the same child can repeatedly infected with the disease. (Yangzi Evening News Author: Dandan)
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