Patient's question:
My friend said today that hand, foot, and mouth disease usually occurs in children of what age, and will it spread? What are the symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease? How can I prevent it to protect my child from getting hand, foot, and mouth disease?Doctor's answer:
Acute onset, fever; scattered herpetic blisters on oral mucosa, rice grain-sized, with significant pain; rice grain-sized blisters on palms or soles, occasionally affecting buttocks or knees. The blisters have an inflammatory erythema around them, with less fluid inside. Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease caused by various enteroviruses, primarily affecting children under the age of 5. HFMD often manifests on the face, tongue, soft palate, hard palate, inner lip, hands, feet, heart, elbows, knees, buttocks, and perineum, presenting as grayish-white herpetic blisters or red papules, rice grain or green bean-sized. HFMD typically resolves within a week, but it can spread easily if there has been a previous outbreak of herpes. HFMD is characterized by high epidemic intensity, strong transmissibility, and complex transmission routes.