Patient's question:
After attending kindergarten all day, the daughter felt unwell. She went to the hospital for a thorough examination and was diagnosed with hand, foot, and mouth disease. How does one get hand, foot, and mouth disease?Doctor's answer:
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is mostly caused by intestinal virus transmission through close contact with infected individuals. Hand, foot, and mouth disease has a certain incubation period, so if a child gets the disease after attending kindergarten for a day, it doesn't necessarily mean the child was infected with hand, foot, and mouth disease at the kindergarten. This is because the child may have already been a carrier of the hand, foot, and mouth disease virus before going to kindergarten, but the symptoms had not yet appeared.