Children who feel ill or have a fever should be excluded from group settings until the fever is gone and the child feels well. Thorough hand washing and care with diaper changing practices is important as well. There is debate as to any congenital disorders related to Coxsackie viral infections and pregnancy.
Pregnant women should consult their obstetrician for further information. Navigation menu. Who gets hand, foot and mouth disease? How is it spread?
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Children should stay home while they have symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Viruses that cause hand, foot, and mouth disease Hand, foot, and mouth disease is caused by viruses that belong to the Enterovirus family. Common causes of hand, foot, and mouth disease are: Coxsackievirus A16 is typically the most common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease in the United States.
Despite its scary name, hand, foot, and mouth disease is a common, contagious illness caused by different viruses. It typically affects infants and children under age 5, but older kids and adults can catch it as well. From the time the child is exposed to hand, foot, and mouth disease , it takes 3 to 6 days for the first symptoms to show up.
This is called the incubation period. Symptoms are the worst in the first few days but are usually completely gone within a week. Peeling of the fingers and toes after 1 to 2 weeks can happen, but it is harmless. Your pediatrician can tell if your child has hand, foot, and mouth disease based on the symptoms you describe and by looking at your child's mouth sores and rash.
Depending on how severe your child's symptoms are, your pediatrician may collect samples from your child's throat send them to a lab for testing. If your child is diagnosed with hand, foot, and mouth disease, make sure to inform your child's child care provider or school. They may need to inform other parents and staff members about watching for symptoms. There isn't any medicine to treat or cure hand, foot, and mouth disease.
The only thing parents can do is ease the fever and pain with acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Call your pediatrician if your child's fever lasts more than 3 days or if he or she is not drinking fluids. In children over age 1 year, parents can consult with their doctor as a variety of liquid mouth-soothing remedies may be useful to alleviate mouth ulcer pain.
Do not use regular mouth washes, because they sting. Age 1 to 6 years: Put a few drops in your child's mouth or put it on with a cotton swab. Age over 6 years: Use 1 teaspoon 5 mL as a mouth wash. Keep it on the mouth blisters as long as possible. Then have your child spit it out or swallow it. Children with hand, foot, and mouth disease need to drink plenty of fluids.
Call your pediatrician now or go to the ER if you suspect your child is dehydrated. You are generally most contagious during the first week of illness. But, children with hand, foot, and mouth disease may shed the virus from the respiratory tract nose, mouth and lungs for weeks and in the stool for weeks to months after the infection starts.
The virus causing hand, foot, and mouth disease is usually spread through person-to-person contact in different ways:. Contact with large droplets that form when a child talks, coughs, or sneezes. Share on: Facebook Twitter. Show references Modlin JF.
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