If a baby is infected with hand, foot, and mouth disease, they are prone to recurrent herpes in their mouth and skin, which can be very uncomfortable. Proper care can alleviate their discomfort. So how to care for babies with hand, foot and mouth disease?
Isolation care
If a baby is found to be infected with hand, foot, and mouth disease, they should seek medical attention promptly and avoid contact with the outside world for 2 weeks.
Oral care
1. Babies may refuse to eat, salivate, cry and sleep due to oral pain. It is important to keep their mouths clean by rinsing with saline before and after meals. For babies who cannot rinse their mouths, a cotton swab dipped in saline can be used to gently clean their mouths.
2. Under the guidance of a doctor, apply vitamin B2 powder to the site of oral erosion, or apply cod liver oil, or take vitamin B2 and vitamin C orally, supplemented by ultrasonic nebulization inhalation, to alleviate pain and promote early healing of erosion.
Skin rash care
1. Pay attention to keeping the skin clean and prevent infection.
2. Baby clothes and bedding should be clean, comfortable and soft, and changed frequently.
3. Shorten your baby's nails to prevent them from scratching their skin rash due to itching and pain.
4. Babies with rashes on their buttocks should clean up promptly after urination and defecation to keep their buttocks clean and dry.
5. In the early stage of rash on the hands and feet, calamine lotion can be applied, and 0.5% iodine can be applied when blisters form or break.
6. Babies with a body temperature between 37.5 ℃ and 38.5 ℃ should be given physical cooling measures such as cooling, drinking warm water, and taking a warm water bath.
Disinfection of items
84 disinfectant can be used to soak items that babies have used. Items that are not suitable for soaking can be placed in direct sunlight. The baby's room should be regularly ventilated with windows to keep the air fresh, circulating, and at an appropriate temperature. Families with conditions can use lactic acid fumigation to disinfect indoors every day.
Dietary nutrition
If the baby gets sick in summer, it is easy to cause dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, and they need to be properly hydrated and nourished. The sick baby has a fever, oral herpes, poor appetite, and is unwilling to eat. You can give your baby some light, warm, delicious, easily digestible, soft liquid or semi liquid food. Pay attention to feeding your baby warm and cool food, which can reduce the stimulation of oral herpes.
