Hand-foot-mouth disease is showing flare up

On March 5, Children Hospital 1-Ho Chi Minh City warned that hand-foot-mouth disease is starting in the season. Dozens of children with hand-foot-mouth disease in the south are being treated here. In particular, there are 2 children with severe complications.

Two children with severe complications are still very small. An 8-month-old grandchild and an 18-month-old grandchild. These two grandchildren are suffering from encephalitis and coma.

Water balloons of hand, foot and mouth disease are concentrated in the palms, soles, buttocks and knees.(Photo: H.Cat)

From the end of February until now, within two weeks, about 40 children with hand-foot-mouth disease had to go to the Children's Hospital 1.

Dr. Truong Huu Khanh, Head of Infection Department of Children's Hospital 1 warning, hand-foot-mouth disease is starting in the season. However, it is noteworthy that many parents still neglect or have not caught up with the information about the disease, so when many children are taken to the hospital, the complications of hand-foot disease - mouth become worse.

The epidemic of hand-foot-mouth disease will begin at the end of March, lasting until April and May 5, said Dr. Truong Huu Khanh. Meanwhile, this is also the time to easily develop other diseases such as rubella, chickenpox (chickenpox), mumps and diarrhea so people are easily mistaken.

Rubella as well as chickenpox can occur at any age. But when rubella is present, patients often have rash, no water balloons, and patients with chickenpox have large water balloons, scattered throughout the body. Meanwhile, the water balloons of hand, foot and mouth disease are smaller, concentrated in palms, soles, buttocks, knees. Patients with hand, foot and mouth disease are usually under 5 years old.

The best way to prevent disease is to keep hygiene and isolation of healthy children with infected children, the incidence of viral diseases will not increase.

In 2006, at the Department of Infectious Diseases, the 1st Children's Hospital was interned for 2,400 children with hand-foot-mouth disease.

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