Patient's question:
Always uncomfortable, feeling bad, can't sleep. Can you drink Banlangen while taking Western medicine for hand, foot, and mouth disease?Doctor's answer:
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is caused by enterovirus and is most common in infants and preschool children. It is contagious. Clinical diagnosis uses antiviral drugs, heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, and symptomatic treatment, which are effective. The first choice for antiviral drugs is acyclovir. Radix Isatidis is a heat-clearing and detoxifying drug that has a good effect on the treatment of hand, foot, and mouth disease. It has no incompatibility with Western medicine, and drinking Radix Isatidis while taking Western medicine can enhance the therapeutic effect. When suffering from hand, foot, and mouth disease, it is recommended to drink Radix Isatidis while taking Western medicine.