Advantages of Chinese medicine of prevention and control Hand, Foot and mouth disease

Recently, hand, foot and mouth disease epidemic affecting people's minds once again, causing widespread concern in the community. Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal viruses of the common infectious diseases, most of them occurred in the summer season, the following 3-year-old baby sick most often occurs in nurseries or kindergartens pop collective. The reason why it is called an "hand, foot and mouth disease", is due to the incidence in the hand, foot skin and oral mucosa will have a similar kind of herpes varicella.

Hand, foot and mouth disease at the time of performance are: prior to the onset of baby in 1 ~ 2 weeks, usually with hand, foot and mouth disease a history of exposure to children. Most of the performance of a sudden fever, body temperature above 38 ℃ and more, with headache, cough, runny nose and other symptoms. Fever at the same time or 1 or 2 days after the oral mucosa, labial herpes appear, after the rupture to form ulcers, pain, that children with more than salivation, irritability, crying non-stop, refused to eat. Then, in the palm of the hand in children, there and buttocks herpes round or oval. Herpes hard, large and small, which contains turbid liquid, weeks around to flush. Hand, foot and mouth disease is a disease less severe diseases, about a week or so to resume, the general no serious complications. As long as proper care, herpes and will not leave the skin pigment or scar. May be complicated by a small number of patients with aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, acute flaccid paralysis, respiratory infections and myocarditis, such as, individual with severe disease in children with fast, easy death. Infants and children under 3 years of age-prone adults, can also be infected, the incidence of infection after more than not, but can transmit the virus. Route of transmission of hand, foot and mouth disease, and infants and children generally susceptible. Children to do a good job of individuals, families and nurseries in the prevention of health is the key to the infection.

According to Hand, Foot and Mouth disease onset, course and clinical features, when the Science of Seasonal Febrile Diseases belonging to Chinese medicine, "Wen disease," "wet-warm," "epidemic" and other areas, the Department of Empirical and thermal card. Department of Hand, Foot and mouth disease by pathogenic cards, cards with Exogenous disease characterized by the growth and decline into the early, very period is rehabilitation period by evil. Based on course and symptoms of skin rash and generalized characteristics to identify the rise and fall of normally early in lung health, then evil and gas business and see rash, by the end of the evil is to the more complex. Wind heat treatment, heart Xiehuo, Huashi, such as Yin to Reduce Pathogenic Fire.

Chinese medicine treatment advantages of hand, foot and mouth disease, according to Chinese medicine theory, hand, foot and mouth disease is a febrile disease areas caused by the heat疫毒. Chinese medicine treatment on the temperature is known as the effectiveness of early intervention can be effective in preventing complications. Hand, foot and mouth disease is caused by a variety of intestinal viruses of the common childhood infectious diseases, Western medicine is currently no effective vaccines and therapeutic drugs, and Chinese medicine in the effect of anti-virus has been confirmed by modern medicine. Therefore, Chinese medicine in disease prevention and control of hand, foot and has advantages of Chinese medicine to combat the earlier the intervention, the more effective in preventing hand-foot-mouth disease, hand, foot and mouth disease to reduce complications and mortality and improve the efficacy, but also to reduce the patient's medical expenses.

In the application of traditional Chinese medicine to prevent Hand, Foot and mouth disease, in addition to wash hands, drink water, eat cooked food, ground ventilation, drying clothing and other preventive measures, available Banlangen or honeysuckle, dandelion and other heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese medicine to take the prevention of child infection. For a long mouth herpes, there are ulcers, bad breath child, can be used Huoxiang,wind, light bamboo drinking, can be heart of fire; selected watermelon or cream, a powder beads, blowing Shikishima oral lesion, 2 times daily, to treat oropharyngeal herpes. Hand, Foot and herpes occur if the child can be used outside the washing method, with wild chrysanthemum, Shikonin, Kochia scoparia, Sophora flavescens, such as boiling, cooling water temperature to moderate hand-foot to play Qingre, Huashi, Liangxue role. After eating it, after going out with soap or hand sanitizer to the children, such as washing hands, not to allow children to drink unboiled water, eat cold food, to avoid contact with sick children; caregivers access to the child before the child for changing nappies, after handling soiled have to wash their hands, and properly handle the dirt; infants and young children use bottle, pacifier use should be fully cleaned before and after; this disease should not be popular with children during the crowded, poorly ventilated public places, pay attention to maintaining household sanitation, home to regular ventilation, ground drying clothing; children with symptoms related to the medical institutions should be treated promptly. Home treatment of children, avoid contact with other children, parents of children in time for drying clothing or disinfected, the sterilization of children with stool timely processing; mild in children do not need hospitalization, treatment should be at home, rest, in order to reduce cross-infection.

Should be emphasized that according to different physical characteristics of children of different drugs. Such as the pharynx usually see red, then dry, bad breath and other symptoms, physical evidence is true of the children, they are advised to take Yinhua, forsythia, such as clearing away heat and toxic Folium; usually easy to cold, common hyperhidrosis, faceless justice, symptoms such as stool, Deficiency is a children's health may be taking coixenolide, such as puerarin Qingre Yunpi.