Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is a viral infectious disease that is often caused in children by a variety of different viruses, such as enteroviruses, including the more serious EV7 virus. It manifests itself mainly by the child having a fever and may have some herpes or papules on the hands, feet, mouth, buttocks and other places. Because it is a viral infection, the course of the disease is mostly self-limiting, that is, the vast majority of children with mild HFMD do not need special treatment, do not need to use antiviral drugs, but only need to carry out some appropriate symptomatic treatment for the child's symptoms.

If your child has a fever, you can use antipyretic medication, and you don't need to do anything about the rash, which in most cases recovers on its own and doesn't leave a scar. In the case of severe HFMD, the child's behavior may be more serious, and some neurological abnormalities will appear in the short term. At this time, the disease will progress more quickly and the prognosis will be relatively poor, so it is important to take the child to the hospital in time and ask the doctor to do more active management. So hand, foot and mouth disease is actually a viral infection caused by the disease, usually only need symptomatic treatment, wait for the natural course of the disease can be.