{"id":8266,"date":"2013-09-26T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:47:18","slug":"hand-foot-and-mouth-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand, foot and mouth disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr KK Aggarwal<\/i><\/b>
Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee
President, Heart Care Foundation of India<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>We have been seeing a rise in the number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease inDelhi among school children. These may be mistaken for chicken pox.<\/p>\n

Hand, foot and mouth disease: Salient facts:<\/b><\/p>\n

*Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness most commonly caused by the Coxsackie virus A6.
*Enteroviruses 71 (EV71) can also cause hand, foot and mouth disease.
*Both adults and children can develop this infection. But young children below 5 years old are more susceptible.
*It is a moderately contagious illness.
*The incubation period is 5 days.
*The illness begins with fever, which lasts for 24-48 hours.<\/div>\n

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\n*Fever is followed by appearance of painful sores in mouth. They begin as small red spots that blister and then often become ulcers. Tongue is involved.
*There are peripherally distributed small tender non itchy rash with blisters on palms of the hands, and soles of feet and buttocks.
*The sores hurt on touch and swallowing is difficult.
*There is proximal separation of nail from the nail bed.
*The virus is present in mucus from nose, saliva, fluid from sores and traces of bowel movements.
*The virus spreads in the first week of infection.
*The infection spreads from person to person by direct contact with nasal discharge, saliva or blister fluid or from stool of infected persons.
*The virus can persist in the stool for weeks.
*The illness is not transmitted to or from pets or other animals
*The illness stays for 2-3 days. It is usually mild and self limited.
*Entero 71 virus is associated with brain involvement (meningitis and encephalitis), lungs and the heart.
*The patient remains infectious after the symptoms have gone.
*Test is not necessary.
*There is no specific treatment.
*Paracetamol tablet can be taken to relieve pain and fever.
*Aspirin is to be avoided in children.
*Dehydration should be avoided.
*Eat ice cream to numb the pain.
*Using mouthwashes or sprays that numb mouth
*Regularly wash your hands with soap and water.
*Avoid exposure to infected person.
*Maintain touch hygiene to reduce your risk of acquiring the infection.
*During first week of illness, the child should be kept in isolation.
*Schools should be closed.
*There is no vaccine currently available<\/p>\n
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Dr KK AggarwalPadma Shri and Dr B C Roy National AwardeePresident, Heart Care Foundation of India We have been seeing a rise in the number of cases of hand, foot and mouth disease inDelhi among school children. These may be mistaken for chicken pox. Hand, foot and mouth disease: Salient facts: *Hand, foot and mouth disease is a viral illness most commonly caused by the Coxsackie virus A6.*Enteroviruses 71 (EV71) can also cause hand, foot and mouth disease.*Both adults and children can develop this infection. But young children below 5 years old are more susceptible.*It is a moderately contagious illness.*The <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1,66],"tags":[80,1879],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness-series","category-update","category-useful-informations","tag-health","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36736,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/36736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}