Patient's question:
Child got hand, foot, and mouth disease. At first, they were not energetic and had no appetite. Now they can eat a little food. What are the main symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease when it's almost healed?Doctor's answer:
It's not like mosquitoes biting lips and gums with blisters or chickenpox. When oral herpes outbreaks occur, they usually reappear ulcers and often flow from the mouth and cannot defecate. No itching, no pain, no scabs, no scars. Severe diaper rash in children can be accompanied by symptoms such as fever, runny nose, and cough. Hand, foot, and mouth disease usually disappears within a week, but if the blisters have previously broken out, it is easily spread. Hand, foot, and mouth disease has the characteristics of high prevalence intensity, strong transmissibility, and complex transmission routes. The virus can be spread to healthy children through saliva droplets or food bitten by flies carrying the virus through the nose and mouth. No scars are left behind. Hand, foot, and mouth disease may not always occur in the same patient. Blisters and rashes usually fade within a week.