Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease: Parent's Practical Guide
Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease: Parent’s Practical Guide It usually starts with a grumpy child who refuses to eat, a touch of fever, and a mysterious rash around the mouth. Within a day or two, small painful spots appear on the tongue, inside the cheeks, then on the palms, the soles, and sometimes the buttocks. Welcome to Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease, one of the most common and most dreaded viral infections of early childhood. Its name sounds grim, parents often confuse it with foot-and-mouth disease in animals (a totally different illness), but HFMD is a self-limiting viral infection that, with good home care and close medical supervision, resolves in under two weeks in the vast majority of children. ...
