4 mistakes when caring for children with hand, foot and mouth disease

Many mistakes of parents make hand, foot and mouth disease in children have a chance to develop badly and easily develop into epidemics.

Although mouth and mouth disease is a mild disease, the symptoms will go away on their own but can still progress with serious complications if taken care of improperly.

Oral hygiene wrong way

Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung, former head of the Pediatrics Department of Bach Mai Hospital, said that when suffering from hand, foot and mouth disease, the burns in the mouth are the most worrisome problem that makes children unable to eat and not to clean their teeth. mouth leads to the risk of multiple infections of periodontitis, oral fungus .

If cleaning the mouth is not correct, parents can break the burns, making more serious ulcers increase the risk of bacterial infections.

Many parents have used milk towels and cotton swabs to wash children's teeth, increase the risk of touching, break the burns increase, making the sores more severe. Besides, wiping the baby's mouth with a milk towel and gauze also brings the mushroom outside into the baby's mouth.

According to the doctor's recommendation, the best way to clean the mouth is to use saline to rinse your mouth after every meal, before going to sleep, to wake up. The baby's mouth has a self-cleaning mechanism, trying to encourage children to drink plenty of water, gargling salt water . that can clean the mouth without causing danger.

Symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease in children.(Photo: Markmedicalsupplies).

Overheating the baby

According to Associate Professor Dung, children with hand, foot and mouth disease do not need to abstain, the blisters outside the skin also do not need to be applied, the cleaning of blisters only needs 1 time / day.

Parents should only give children a fever when they have fever over 38.5 degrees Celsius. In particular, when children are fever, parents need to give their children in a well-ventilated and spacious place. Many people who over-warm their babies make sweating worse.

Abuse of water transmission

Dr. Le Thi Hai, Director of the Nutrition Consultation Center, Institute of Nutrition recommends that parents should not abuse the infusion for children. This method only applies when the child has severe dehydration manifestations such as vomiting, diarrhea, high fever and must be prescribed by the doctor.

For children with mild physical illness, home treatment, families should give babies plenty of juice such as oranges, grapefruit . to supplement vitamin C, improve resistance. In addition, the fruits are red, yellow like carrot juice, tomato, watermelon . very rich in vitamin A - one of the very important vitamins to strengthen the immune system, heal the lesions quickly love.

When having foot and mouth disease, parents should supplement zinc - an important micronutrient for the body - to help them quickly. Zinc is the most abundant in foods such as seafood, including dumplings, clams, or everyday foods such as egg yolk, chicken . Parents should prepare them into porridge, baby soup is easy to eat.

Create opportunities to spread the disease

"Children with hand, foot and mouth disease must be isolated for at least 10 days after the onset of illness, not for children to show signs of illness and play with other children" , Dr. Nguyen Tien Dung recommended.

The virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease can spread from person to person through direct contact with the nose, throat, saliva, fluid from the blisters, or the stool of an infected person. Therefore, the possibility of infection is very large.