Patient's question:
Early hand, foot, and mouth disease has basically healed, but the mouth hasn't fully recovered. Now I've caught a cold. Since the hand, foot, and mouth disease hasn't fully healed, catching a cold again, will it relapse?Doctor's answer:
Hello, hand, foot, and mouth disease is caused by several types of special enteroviruses, and only a few serotypes of the virus can cause hand, foot, and mouth disease. After a typical case of hand, foot, and mouth disease, the virus serotype is immune and will not be infected by the same serotype again. However, it can be infected by other serotypes of the virus and may still cause hand, foot, and mouth disease, but this infection opportunity is very small, don't worry, hand, foot, and mouth disease is usually self-treatable.