Patient's question:
Recently, many people around me have contracted hand, foot, and mouth disease. What are the symptoms? What are the initial symptoms of this disease?Doctor's answer:
Hand, foot, and mouth disease has many initial symptoms, the most typical of which is fever. In addition to fever, there may be symptoms such as shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, changes in respiratory rhythm, bluish lips, white, pink, or bloody froth in the mouth (sputum), audible wheezing or moist rales in the lungs, mental changes, drowsiness, headache, vomiting, easy shock, limb tremors, weakness, or paralysis. Examination may reveal meningeal irritation, decreased or absent tendon reflexes. Severe cases may be characterized by frequent convulsions, coma, brain edema, and brain herniation.