Patient's question:
In the early stages of the illness, symptoms include coughing, fever, and high blood counts. At Heze Municipal Hospital, it was diagnosed as pneumonia caused by hand, foot, and mouth disease. How should one treat hand, foot, and mouth disease while also suffering from pneumonia?Doctor's answer:
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a viral infection. If treatment is not timely, due to repeated high fever or poor child constitution, it may lead to bacterial infection after splitting, resulting in pneumonia, which is a severe form of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Because pneumonia caused by hand, foot, and mouth disease is prone to recurrent pulmonary edema. It is recommended to hospitalize the child for treatment, control the infection through oxygen therapy, intravenous fluids, and antibiotics, and prevent further spread of the infection.