Wash your hands and kiss your child after work

On the 6th, the Provincial Department of Health announced the statutory infectious disease epidemic in Shaanxi Province in July. The top three diseases in terms of the incidence of Category C infectious diseases were HFMD, other infectious diarrheal diseases and epidemic parotitis. The provincial health department reminded that the current high season of HFMD requires the hospital to strictly implement the pre-diagnosis triage system. Experts remind parents to wash their hands and sip their mouths before kissing children.

Children under 5 years of age have multiple hand, foot, buttocks and four parts of long herpes

From July 1 to July 31, 2013, a total of 12,563 cases of C-class infectious diseases were reported in the province. The top three diseases reported were hand-foot-mouth disease, other infectious diarrheal diseases, and mumps, and accounted for C. The number of reported cases of communicable diseases was 97.38%.

“I’m very worried about this small illness.” On the 6th, in the Infectious House ward of the City Children’s Hospital, Ms. Chu told reporters that the child was only 8 months old. More than a week ago, the neighbor’s 3 year old baby was identified as suspected to be hand, foot and foot. Mouth, she was a bit worried at the time, but because the child did not have any abnormalities, she did not care. Five days ago, the child began to have a fever. At the beginning, he was treated as a viral flu but he had not seen it well. Then he found that his body had begun to grow red and brought to the hospital. He was diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease immediately. Fortunately, the condition was mild. He was discharged after being hospitalized for 4 days.

Deng Huiling, director of the Second Department of Infectious Diseases of Children's Hospital of Xi’an, told reporters that hand-foot-mouth disease is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses. It is distributed throughout the year and there are two high seasons each year. They are from April to July and 9 ~ November. The disease is prevalent in preschool children, children under 5 years of age. The most common first symptoms are fever, accompanied by herpes in the hands, feet, mouth, and buttocks. A few children can cause complications such as myocarditis, pulmonary edema, and meningitis.

Don't give your child raw water and don't eat raw food

Deng Huiling said that there are no specific drugs for the prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease, but this virus is more sensitive to ultraviolet rays and "84 disinfectant", it is recommended that parents use more bedding for children used in the sun, more ventilation in the room, the children before and after meals, after going out Wash your hands with soap or hand sanitizer, etc. Do not allow children to drink raw water. Even pure water, drink cold, do not eat cold food, and avoid contact with children with herpes.

In addition, in addition to paying attention to children's diet and hygiene, adult health can not be ignored. Adults are exposed to public facilities on a daily basis and are prone to contact with a large number of diseases. Many parents return home to work after the first thing they do is to take over the child's parental hug. This will indirectly transmit the virus brought back from the outside to the children indirectly. Therefore, before intimate contact with children, you must change clothes, wash your hands, and rinse your mouth.

Provincial Health Department also issued a notice to remind all types of medical institutions at all levels to strictly implement the pre-diagnosis triage system, optimize patient treatment procedures to ensure scientific and timely treatment. Disease prevention and control agencies at all levels should do a good job in monitoring etiology of HFMD, epidemiological investigations, epidemic points, disposal in affected areas, and publicity and education.