Traditional Chinese medicine has the best effect in treating hand, foot and mouth disease. Generally, a combination of oral medicine and oral medicine is used. Those without complications can be cured in about a week and the prognosis is good. Antiviral medication can also be used. Children should be asked to rinse their mouths with warm water regularly; they should not eat cold or spicy foods, and do not give them salty foods to avoid causing pain and refusing to eat; their diet should be easy to digest, and they should eat light, soft, and warm meals. Drink warm water; let the child get enough rest; make sure the child's clothes are clean to avoid rash infection. I have treated many cases of this disease through syndrome differentiation with good results.
Treatment methods
Acute attack period
The hands, feet, and oral mucosa are covered with herpes or ulcers, with pain, fever and irritability, red tongue, white coating or Yellow, blue or purple fingerprints or pulse count. The syndrome is caused by exogenous pathogenic viruses, which cause the spleen and stomach to accumulate heat, tears, and stagnation. Treatment should be to clear away heat and purge the spleen, detoxify and cool blood, and use a self-prepared drink for clearing away heat and purging the spleen. Drug composition: 10 grams each of honeysuckle, dandelion, and skullcap, 9 grams each of forsythia suspensa, 12 grams each of wild chrysanthemum, red peony root and big green leaves, and 15 to 30 grams of gypsum. For those with high fever and turbulent wind, add antelope horn and cicada slough; for those with flaming heart rice, add Dao Chi Powder; for those with constipation, add rhubarb and raw rehmannia glutinosa; for those with yin deficiency, add Ophiopogon japonicus and Anemarrhena; If wind-heat affects the lungs, add mulberry leaves and bitter almonds. 1 dose per day, decoction in water and divided into 2 doses.
Recovery period
Fever subsides or is mild. Herpes gradually subsides, and the appetite is not good, etc. This is because the remaining evils have not been eliminated. The treatment should be to regulate the spleen to help transportation, and to clear the body. External prescription: 15 grams each of Guya and Yiyiren, 6 grams of cicada slough, 9 grams each of Uncaria and Pale Bamboo leaves, and 5 grams of licorice. 1 dose per day, decoction in water and divided into 2 doses.
This disease has not been specifically recorded in ancient Chinese medicine books, but according to the symptoms and characteristics of this disease, it seems to belong to the categories of "warm disease", "dampness and warmth", and "epidemic disease" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a syndrome of syndrome and heat, and the treatment Methods include dispersing wind and clearing heat, clearing away heart and purging fire, clearing heat and reducing dampness, nourishing yin and reducing fire, etc. I have clinically observed that in addition to rash on the hands, feet, and mouth, this disease is often accompanied by symptoms such as fever, bad breath, salivation, food refusal, irritability, constipation or constipation, red tongue, yellow coating, slippery pulse, or purple fingerprints. physical signs. Most of them are caused by exogenous pathogenic viruses and internal heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach. Treatment should be to clear away heat and purge the spleen, detoxify and cool blood. During the acute period, use a self-made prescription to clear the heat and purge the spleen. This prescription has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and resolving rash, drying dampness and removing troubles. When using this prescription, you should pay attention to stopping it during the disease to prevent excessive use of bitter cold and easily damage the spleen and stomach. That is, when the fever gradually subsides, the rash shrinks, and other concurrent symptoms are relieved, use medicine that regulates the spleen, helps transportation and clears away evil spirits. Do not harm the good, and remove the evil to make the good.
Preventive measures
Preventive measures mainly include isolating sick children and strengthening infant and young child health care to reduce the chance of infection. At the same time, attention should be paid to indoor air circulation and temperature control.