Patient's question:
In the kindergarten where my son attends, there are children suffering from hand, foot, and mouth disease. My son, who wears thick clothes in winter and is wrapped up tightly, finds it difficult to interact with his classmates, making it easy for the disease to spread again. What are the preventive measures for hand, foot, and mouth disease in winter?Doctor's answer:
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is characterized by fever, mouth ulcers, and blisters. The initial symptoms include low fever, reduced appetite, and often sore throat. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a blood disease caused by external pathogens, exhibiting the characteristic dynamics of pathogen and healthy qi interaction, including the initial stage of pathogen dominance, the peak stage of pathogen dominance, and the recovery stage of healthy qi. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, hand, foot, and mouth disease falls under the category of warm diseases, brought on by damp-heat and epidemic toxins. Traditional Chinese medicine has proven highly effective in treating warm diseases. Currently, Western medicine has no vaccine or specific treatment for hand, foot, and mouth disease, while the antiviral effects of traditional Chinese medicine have been confirmed by modern medicine.